If one actually RTFA -- actually, if you read the blog post, all the poster is offering to do is to place adverts. That's it.
The blog post only offers to place adverts that highlight campaigns from health service companies. There is no "protection" offered. In fact the word "protect" does not appear in the blog post.
I remember when google first came out. Yahoo, msn, altavista, hotbot and several other sites were stronger brands than google. Google's search page was clean and wasn't cluttered with tons of stuff.
I heard about Google long before I used it. I stayed with AltaVista because I had learned their search syntax, so I knew how to do very targetted searches. What killed AltaVista for me was they somehow let their spidering get very out of date, and eventually, AltaVista just returned pages of broken links. Probably somewhere, some PHB, decided that money could be saved if they did less of this pesky "spidering the Internet" stuff which seemed unrelated to delivering adverts.
Let's look at this week (which isn't even over yet).
* "Bong Hits For Jesus" isn't free speech, and isn't protected (meaning that schools can now kick people out for saying almost anything that the school doesn't like).
If I understood the decision correctly, the bizarre thing about it is that, if the kid had had a banner reading "legalize drugs", he would have won, because "legalize drugs" is political speech, while "Bong hits for Jesus" is just attention-grabbing nonsense.
That was _the_ eminent domain decision. When that decision was made the Court was weighted to the left. It decided that the gov't can take your land and sell it to the highest bidder in the interest of collecting higher taxes.
Actually, I think you will find that the court decided that, whether or not a city can take your land is an issue that the States must decide for themselves. It is an important distinction, because it leads to the idea of greater power for the States and less to the Feds (which IMHO is a good thing). Unfortunately, though, I doubt that other decisions from this court will create any kind of trend of increasing the powers of the States.
My company was contacted by Dell about a month ago regarding our rack mount server that uses a 5100-series CPU. However, they told me it only affects Windows.
She's not going after RIAA as such, she's going after everyone that makes up the RIAA, read the article: "Atlantic, Priority Records, Capitol Records, UMG and BMG -- the RIAA itself, the Settlement Support Center, and SafeNet"
As you can see from the part of the quote above that I bolded, she is also suing "the RIAA itself", as well as the record companies, etc.
What about the anchovy used in Cesar Salad (either directly or as an ingredient of Worcestershire sauce)? That should put it off the list of edible foods for vegetarians.
Not in modern DRAM. Modern DRAM is basicly a capacitor.
That's what the "D" in DRAM means: dynamic, as opposed to SRAM, which does not require refreshing and in therefore static. However, in both cases, power is stil required to continue storing the state.
I've had a passport since I was a baby. My parents always considered it a worthwhile expense, just in case its ever needed. Its less than $100 for 10 years.
Really? Passports for minors cost $82 and last for 5 years.
Only the other day, I was modded into oblvion for commenting that the present UK goverment has been given a pass on its assault on civil liberties.
I am glad that others see my viewpoint, since I think it is probably one of the biggest factors that will shape UK society and the UK's economic position in the world.
What are the chances of us getting a similar ruling in the US?
Let me suggest, absolutely zero. The problem is that that "effectively controls" is defined in the law and it does not mean what you would like it to mean (or indeed what any sensible person would expect it to mean).
Here is the definition:
(B) a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
The problem is that using DeCSS on a DVD is not going to be considered to be "in the ordinary course of its [the DVD's] operation".
I'm surprised that the IT Director is still employed there.
I think it would be appropriate to substitute "CEO" for "IT Director", because, if the facts are true, I think that other shareholders have a strong case to sue the company, its officers and Nortel.
I just don't understand why so many people voted for Tony Blair -- his party stated that they would not increase a set list of taxes. What happened was obvious: they increased every other tax they could think of, including local government taxes (by reducing the amount that the central government gives to local authorities).
They (the present government) have initiated the destruction of the United Kingdom through devolution. Devolution that has been implemented in a manner higher unfair to England and English voters (since MPs from Scotland get to vote on matters that only affect ENgland, but not the reverse).
They have removed the protections against double jeopardy, limited rights to jury trials, given away BILLIONS to the EU (to settle a dispute between Germany and France -- WTF?). Destroyed the constitution by the "reform" of the House of Lords (which acted many times to prevent over-radical actions by either party).
The UK's pensions were very well funded before Labour came to power, now we have a crisis.
Why, oh why, has it taken to voters so long to see through him? OK, the last years of Conservative government were not filled with triumph, and some time out of power was warranted, but the peccadillos of a few are trifling in comparison to the billions that have been wasted. </rant mode>
4. What is it about "/. is not an encyclopedia" that you don't understand?
There may be many case where one might claim that a post on/. is pure BS, but in the case of the great-grandparent post, the facts are easily confirmed.
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If one actually RTFA -- actually, if you read the blog post, all the poster is offering to do is to place adverts. That's it.
The blog post only offers to place adverts that highlight campaigns from health service companies. There is no "protection" offered. In fact the word "protect" does not appear in the blog post.
My company was contacted by Dell about a month ago regarding our rack mount server that uses a 5100-series CPU. However, they told me it only affects Windows.
What about the anchovy used in Cesar Salad (either directly or as an ingredient of Worcestershire sauce)? That should put it off the list of edible foods for vegetarians.
If you read the student's blog, he was not sued for defamation -- in fact, he was sued for "tortious business interference".
One of the articles states that the data is held in RAM for 6 hours. This seems rather long. Any thoughts?
Only the other day, I was modded into oblvion for commenting that the present UK goverment has been given a pass on its assault on civil liberties.
I am glad that others see my viewpoint, since I think it is probably one of the biggest factors that will shape UK society and the UK's economic position in the world.
Here is the definition: The problem is that using DeCSS on a DVD is not going to be considered to be "in the ordinary course of its [the DVD's] operation".
I just don't understand why so many people voted for Tony Blair -- his party stated that they would not increase a set list of taxes. What happened was obvious: they increased every other tax they could think of, including local government taxes (by reducing the amount that the central government gives to local authorities).
They (the present government) have initiated the destruction of the United Kingdom through devolution. Devolution that has been implemented in a manner higher unfair to England and English voters (since MPs from Scotland get to vote on matters that only affect ENgland, but not the reverse).
They have removed the protections against double jeopardy, limited rights to jury trials, given away BILLIONS to the EU (to settle a dispute between Germany and France -- WTF?). Destroyed the constitution by the "reform" of the House of Lords (which acted many times to prevent over-radical actions by either party).
The UK's pensions were very well funded before Labour came to power, now we have a crisis.
Why, oh why, has it taken to voters so long to see through him? OK, the last years of Conservative government were not filled with triumph, and some time out of power was warranted, but the peccadillos of a few are trifling in comparison to the billions that have been wasted. </rant mode>
1. It wasn't my assertion -- I did not make the original post about Browns Ferry. Try reading next time!
2. I just happened to hear an article on PBS about Browns Ferry the day of this post.
3. As I mentioned before, you can confirm it using Google. Here, I'll even show you how to find it using google
4. What is it about "/. is not an encyclopedia" that you don't understand?
There may be many case where one might claim that a post on /. is pure BS, but in the case of the great-grandparent post, the facts are easily confirmed.