I've had a web site up for a couple years. It is designed for "mature" readers. Suppose a business acquired a domain very similar to mine, starts selling from it, then gets a moron judge to issue a restraining order to turn mine off during the xmas rush while threatening to sue me for having a domain similar to theirs.
Question: Given that theoretical series of events, what right should this theoretical business be able to dictate -- or even request -- that I do anything different w/ my content that I would have done without their interference?
Answer: None! It's so simple and obvious, it's practically a natural law.
Mozilla's Open Directory Project can always use more volunteer editors to index web sites into yahoo-like categories. Editors are expected to have knowledge about the cats for which they are responsible, so there's human judgement involved. I know, it's not as efficient as meta-tags and spiders, et cetera but humans are creating web sites (mostly). Maybe in the long run, humans are required to sort it all out properly. ODP data is open source (I think I'm using the term correctly), and used by many web directories.
My business would be a government-enforced monopoly, at least at the beginning. It would rake in the Big Bucks from each customer who wants me to put them in a database, but wouldn't be responsible to actually perform as expected. Occasionally, I'd like to use this huge database to spam my customer base, whenever there's some new service I'd like to provide.
I wrote an article about this wholesale re-victimization of the incident called Conflict Resolution 1: Columbine. (Part 2 is about Kosovo.) Everybody's ideas about gun control, video games, the Internet, prayer in school, dress codes, et cetera was "proved" by what happened.
It makes me want to puke when some feeb with an agenda uses a tragedy like this to blather his/her preconceived ideas and sell books!
The kind of technical comparisons you are looking for isn't likely to appear in a c/net article written for mostly Windows users who might consider *upgrading* to Linux, and wouldn't understand the technical info you'd like to see -- which would only scare them off.
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Question: Given that theoretical series of events, what right should this theoretical business be able to dictate -- or even request -- that I do anything different w/ my content that I would have done without their interference?
Answer: None! It's so simple and obvious, it's practically a natural law.
Mozilla's Open Directory Project can always use more volunteer editors to index web sites into yahoo-like categories. Editors are expected to have knowledge about the cats for which they are responsible, so there's human judgement involved. I know, it's not as efficient as meta-tags and spiders, et cetera but humans are creating web sites (mostly). Maybe in the long run, humans are required to sort it all out properly. ODP data is open source (I think I'm using the term correctly), and used by many web directories.
It makes me want to puke when some feeb with an agenda uses a tragedy like this to blather his/her preconceived ideas and sell books!
The kind of technical comparisons you are looking for isn't likely to appear in a c/net article written for mostly Windows users who might consider *upgrading* to Linux, and wouldn't understand the technical info you'd like to see -- which would only scare them off.