Irregardless copyright infringement isn't theft and thus isn't criminal. Illegal drugs and underage consumption, regardless of our personal feelings on the subject, are criminal and are handled in criminal court. *That* is the big difference and why they shouldn't be compared.
That's more of a "don't ask, don't tell, and don't abuse the privilege", and it doesn't make the activity legal.
I think someone is confused about what copyright infringement is. Copyright infringement isn't theft, has nothing to do with drugs or underage drinking, and while it might have to do with partying as people may play the infringed music during, I won't put it in the same ballpark and neither should you.
As it stands now, a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! would up the combined companies' share of the all-important search advertising market to 27 percent against Google's 65 percent.
I figure that it would be around 30% either way and falling.
I think this is going to be a more common occurrence, with open source project looking beyond simple functionality to usability, appearance, etc, as it does help grab more users, especially in the non-Linux crowd.
I haven't used GAIM since I was running Linux solely back in the day (prior to 2002) and now that I use bitlbee I don't have any GUI client. Anyway, back on topic, my co-worker (who's not a Linux geek) wanted a client to do multiple IM platforms as he uses it to communicate with prospective students and heard about the new Pidgin release.
I hadn't heard about it until he mentioned it and said "it used to be called GAIM," and then mentioned that it was starting to install. I came back up to his area about 3 hours later and he said, "I uninstalled it, I hated the UI."
So I guess while it may appeal to the GAIM using Linux group it probably won't make any mass converts from the previous clients that are already out there, especially those that are using the AOL client like my co-worker.
Of course not. There is no legitimate reason why anyone would want to contact the domain owner about some issue with the site or its content.
And your hosting company should just reject all requests and complaints. They are just a hosting company and have no need to get involved with anything else. You pay, they host, right?
You mean like the additional fees that the registrars/hosts get for hiding your personal contact information if you so choose? So this rule should apply only to people who don't want to have money extorted from them?
There's absolutely no reason that in the US we must have valid contact information in that database. I use my work address, phone number, and my website spam GMail account on there because I don't want to deal w/the bullshit spam, letters in the mail, etc.
Whoever had the bright idea to mandate that for ending spam didn't think clearly. Perhaps Russia (while not their motivation for this move) is on the right track.
Now, while I support the weakening of software patents in general, by this logic, would that mean that MS's patents don't apply to those that use pirated copies of Windows?
A lawsuit from AT&T hurts Microsoft's bottom line and thus this ruling is ok. Pirating overseas in Asia also hurts Microsoft's bottom line and thus this ruling wouldn't be applied.
Interesting to whom, precisely? Hyperion's marketing department?
Or I suppose to users of Hyperion and the staff that uses it daily -- like me. While I don't particularly care for how we are directed to use Hyperion (no ad-hoc reporting but instead pre-created queries that we can only modify the reporting of the end result) in theory it could be an extremely useful tool for many companies.
It's much easier to learn than what is offered in Access or other reporting tools I have used. The only way I could use it for my ad-hoc reporting would to be to import a CSV of a table I want to report from and then use their tools from that. Not so good for what I like to do (automation) but I have used it to make pretty charts when the boss asked.
The difference is clear. A T1 guarantees you your bandwidth. Both DSL and Cable do not.
They also give you a guaranteed service level. If you need service the same day, they are generally there whereas you could wait several days for techs from CATV/Telco.
Thanks for at least taking the time to explain why you think that way.
In my eyes, I don't trust it at all over any other encyclopedia and I have a low appreciation for encyclopedias of any kind as primary publication research is where it's at. Sometimes I wish that they would teach that sort of research earlier than high school -- school aged kids might actually learn to enjoy the research they do instead of considering it tedious.
The disc distribution can solve that, and users can feel confident that the information contained therein is actually worth something. The disc may be the only version that is ever really usefull as an encyclopedia. The online version could be best used as a temporary editing version, with real versions being pressed and distributed, and competantly edited.
The people who make these final determinations aren't going to sneak a couple of one-sided viewpoints into the articles somewhere? After all, they aren't anymore competent at editing than anyone else on that site are they?
Wikipedia is a powerful tool because it can be constantly and immediately updated with new information as it becomes available. By burning it onto CD and distributing it, it becomes almost the same as any other encyclopedia available minus the cost and the fact that it doesn't carry the same reputation.
It's a good idea in theory but in reality it's sorta pointless.
They didn't really address night time flash performance. Lots of people want to take pictures when they go out at night and these tests were inadequate since the subjects were small and close. Large people 5-6 feet away require a brighter flash and/or higher ISOs. Cell phone cameras haven't the room for a large flash and the capacitors it requires. I wonder how these phones would fare under these conditions?
They don't address the simple fact that some people, like me, don't give a shit about what the mobile photos look like. I carry both devices to places I plan to take photos and I use the digital camera (currently a Canon SD700IS) for the nice photos and the mobile to take photos that are going to be immediately moblogged.
Yes, in a perfect world, I'd love a mobile camera that takes great photos but I also want to upload them immediately via E/GPRS and post them to my site from the location. If we start getting into the 5+ megapixel range and the image sizes become unmanageable for this use, I'm reverting from where I've been for the last three years.
Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will give one company access to more information about the Internet activities of consumers than any other company in the world
Wow, and all this time I thought that they already had.
Moreover, Google will operate with virtually no legal obligation to ensure the privacy, security, and accuracy of the personal data that it collects.
How is this different than before just by acquiring Doubleclick? (Hint: It's not.)
Yeah, acquiring Doubleclick was fucking lame and I think it was an expensive gamble but that doesn't make them any more or less likely to horde our private data.
You don't accept a deal for 4 years in prison if you're not guilty. Clearly, someone is lying here.
Because the general public (and thus the jury) probably won't understand what an Open WAP is and what it means in this case, his lawyer probably told him to take the deal instead of facing more time when he loses.
Does the OS detect the card you have and then tone down the OS' level of resource hogging based on that?
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Hostility, on the Internet? Please be serious.
A speed limit should be consistent for an entire stretch. It shouldn't start at 45mph, dip to 30 for a 1/4 mile, and then go back up to 45 so that a cop can sit in between the two points and catch speeders -- especially those that are from out of town who are less likely to contest.
Also, judges should not be permitted to be paid from funds collected in any part from the fines that they preside over.
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Or alternatively they could find a different way of creating revenue than setting speed traps for a 1/2 mile in and out of town.
Don't talk like you are all high and mighty when you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
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I'm really waiting for the day that GPRS (or the like) is used to transmit the positions of those assholes hiding in the medians. Fair is fair. If they're allowed to hide (in OH they seem to have to be in fairly plain sight and have their parking lights on) we should be allowed to do basically the same thing.
Unfortunately, because local municipalities entire judicial systems are paid from a good percentage of the fees gained from these fines, there is no impartiality and that would be illegal.
Basically it holds all of the promise of RFID with none of the scary privacy issues. But this is slashdot, so I realize I must spin this as evil. DIE MICROSOFT DIE! There, happy?
My comment has nothing to do with anti-Microsoft sentiment (hell, I run Windows and use Office, *gasp*!) this has to do with me finding that the application is fucking pointless as described in the article.
I'm supposed to take a digital image of something and then scan it later to get to a website because of a billboard ad? Please.
Once the group starts issuing the barcodes, studios and producers will be able to link their Web sites to that database. One day, consumers might use a digital camera to "scan" barcodes on DVD cases, in advertisements and on billboards, then be transported to a Web page to watch trailers or buy products.
So, what you're telling us is that this is nothing but a pointless technology and that it would be much easier just to post a URL?
I have a to take a picture, possibly be charged depending on my mobile plan and if I choose that route, and then be tracked by Microsoft and the end company and then go to a website that would have been easier to just type in?
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Unfortunately, it will come down to protecting school reputations, and congress can apply pressure, one way or the other.
Unfortunately they won't stick to what they are best at... Nothing.
Irregardless copyright infringement isn't theft and thus isn't criminal. Illegal drugs and underage consumption, regardless of our personal feelings on the subject, are criminal and are handled in criminal court. *That* is the big difference and why they shouldn't be compared.
That's more of a "don't ask, don't tell, and don't abuse the privilege", and it doesn't make the activity legal.
I think someone is confused about what copyright infringement is. Copyright infringement isn't theft, has nothing to do with drugs or underage drinking, and while it might have to do with partying as people may play the infringed music during, I won't put it in the same ballpark and neither should you.
According to the article:
As it stands now, a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! would up the combined companies' share of the all-important search advertising market to 27 percent against Google's 65 percent.
I figure that it would be around 30% either way and falling.
I think this is going to be a more common occurrence, with open source project looking beyond simple functionality to usability, appearance, etc, as it does help grab more users, especially in the non-Linux crowd.
I haven't used GAIM since I was running Linux solely back in the day (prior to 2002) and now that I use bitlbee I don't have any GUI client. Anyway, back on topic, my co-worker (who's not a Linux geek) wanted a client to do multiple IM platforms as he uses it to communicate with prospective students and heard about the new Pidgin release.
I hadn't heard about it until he mentioned it and said "it used to be called GAIM," and then mentioned that it was starting to install. I came back up to his area about 3 hours later and he said, "I uninstalled it, I hated the UI."
So I guess while it may appeal to the GAIM using Linux group it probably won't make any mass converts from the previous clients that are already out there, especially those that are using the AOL client like my co-worker.
Of course not. There is no legitimate reason why anyone would want to contact the domain owner about some issue with the site or its content.
And your hosting company should just reject all requests and complaints. They are just a hosting company and have no need to get involved with anything else. You pay, they host, right?
You mean like the additional fees that the registrars/hosts get for hiding your personal contact information if you so choose? So this rule should apply only to people who don't want to have money extorted from them?
There's absolutely no reason that in the US we must have valid contact information in that database. I use my work address, phone number, and my website spam GMail account on there because I don't want to deal w/the bullshit spam, letters in the mail, etc.
Whoever had the bright idea to mandate that for ending spam didn't think clearly. Perhaps Russia (while not their motivation for this move) is on the right track.
Technically the information is available to everyone by law, but it's such a pain to get it that nobody bothers.
The only people that bother are exactly the people that probably shouldn't have access to it.
Now, while I support the weakening of software patents in general, by this logic, would that mean that MS's patents don't apply to those that use pirated copies of Windows?
A lawsuit from AT&T hurts Microsoft's bottom line and thus this ruling is ok. Pirating overseas in Asia also hurts Microsoft's bottom line and thus this ruling wouldn't be applied.
Glad we have that cleared up.
Netcraft confirms it, Slashdot's editors may suck.
Interesting to whom, precisely? Hyperion's marketing department?
Or I suppose to users of Hyperion and the staff that uses it daily -- like me. While I don't particularly care for how we are directed to use Hyperion (no ad-hoc reporting but instead pre-created queries that we can only modify the reporting of the end result) in theory it could be an extremely useful tool for many companies.
It's much easier to learn than what is offered in Access or other reporting tools I have used. The only way I could use it for my ad-hoc reporting would to be to import a CSV of a table I want to report from and then use their tools from that. Not so good for what I like to do (automation) but I have used it to make pretty charts when the boss asked.
The difference is clear. A T1 guarantees you your bandwidth. Both DSL and Cable do not.
They also give you a guaranteed service level. If you need service the same day, they are generally there whereas you could wait several days for techs from CATV/Telco.
Pointless? I think that's way off base.
Thanks for at least taking the time to explain why you think that way.
In my eyes, I don't trust it at all over any other encyclopedia and I have a low appreciation for encyclopedias of any kind as primary publication research is where it's at. Sometimes I wish that they would teach that sort of research earlier than high school -- school aged kids might actually learn to enjoy the research they do instead of considering it tedious.
The disc distribution can solve that, and users can feel confident that the information contained therein is actually worth something. The disc may be the only version that is ever really usefull as an encyclopedia. The online version could be best used as a temporary editing version, with real versions being pressed and distributed, and competantly edited.
The people who make these final determinations aren't going to sneak a couple of one-sided viewpoints into the articles somewhere? After all, they aren't anymore competent at editing than anyone else on that site are they?
Wikipedia is a powerful tool because it can be constantly and immediately updated with new information as it becomes available. By burning it onto CD and distributing it, it becomes almost the same as any other encyclopedia available minus the cost and the fact that it doesn't carry the same reputation.
It's a good idea in theory but in reality it's sorta pointless.
They didn't really address night time flash performance. Lots of people want to take pictures when they go out at night and these tests were inadequate since the subjects were small and close. Large people 5-6 feet away require a brighter flash and/or higher ISOs. Cell phone cameras haven't the room for a large flash and the capacitors it requires. I wonder how these phones would fare under these conditions?
They don't address the simple fact that some people, like me, don't give a shit about what the mobile photos look like. I carry both devices to places I plan to take photos and I use the digital camera (currently a Canon SD700IS) for the nice photos and the mobile to take photos that are going to be immediately moblogged.
Yes, in a perfect world, I'd love a mobile camera that takes great photos but I also want to upload them immediately via E/GPRS and post them to my site from the location. If we start getting into the 5+ megapixel range and the image sizes become unmanageable for this use, I'm reverting from where I've been for the last three years.
Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will give one company access to more information about the Internet activities of consumers than any other company in the world
Wow, and all this time I thought that they already had.
Moreover, Google will operate with virtually no legal obligation to ensure the privacy, security, and accuracy of the personal data that it collects.
How is this different than before just by acquiring Doubleclick? (Hint: It's not.)
Yeah, acquiring Doubleclick was fucking lame and I think it was an expensive gamble but that doesn't make them any more or less likely to horde our private data.
You don't accept a deal for 4 years in prison if you're not guilty. Clearly, someone is lying here.
Because the general public (and thus the jury) probably won't understand what an Open WAP is and what it means in this case, his lawyer probably told him to take the deal instead of facing more time when he loses.
Does the OS detect the card you have and then tone down the OS' level of resource hogging based on that?
Hostility, on the Internet? Please be serious.
A speed limit should be consistent for an entire stretch. It shouldn't start at 45mph, dip to 30 for a 1/4 mile, and then go back up to 45 so that a cop can sit in between the two points and catch speeders -- especially those that are from out of town who are less likely to contest.
Also, judges should not be permitted to be paid from funds collected in any part from the fines that they preside over.
Or alternatively they could find a different way of creating revenue than setting speed traps for a 1/2 mile in and out of town.
Don't talk like you are all high and mighty when you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
I'm really waiting for the day that GPRS (or the like) is used to transmit the positions of those assholes hiding in the medians. Fair is fair. If they're allowed to hide (in OH they seem to have to be in fairly plain sight and have their parking lights on) we should be allowed to do basically the same thing.
Unfortunately, because local municipalities entire judicial systems are paid from a good percentage of the fees gained from these fines, there is no impartiality and that would be illegal.
And this is exactly the problem that will continue to fester with municipal wifi competing with other residential connections.
Basically it holds all of the promise of RFID with none of the scary privacy issues. But this is slashdot, so I realize I must spin this as evil. DIE MICROSOFT DIE! There, happy?
My comment has nothing to do with anti-Microsoft sentiment (hell, I run Windows and use Office, *gasp*!) this has to do with me finding that the application is fucking pointless as described in the article.
I'm supposed to take a digital image of something and then scan it later to get to a website because of a billboard ad? Please.
The CueCat was a piece of free hardware that was hacked. This wouldn't require the passing out of any hardware that could be taken advantage of.
Once the group starts issuing the barcodes, studios and producers will be able to link their Web sites to that database. One day, consumers might use a digital camera to "scan" barcodes on DVD cases, in advertisements and on billboards, then be transported to a Web page to watch trailers or buy products.
So, what you're telling us is that this is nothing but a pointless technology and that it would be much easier just to post a URL?
I have a to take a picture, possibly be charged depending on my mobile plan and if I choose that route, and then be tracked by Microsoft and the end company and then go to a website that would have been easier to just type in?
Right. Dumb.