Yes, it would be such an injustice if SCO were actually forced to prove their case. If SCO's only way of winning is by making sure IBM doesn't have enough time to discover the legitimate source of whatever SCO picks out of a hat, then they don't have a case, and should lose. If there is no legitimate source for the code in question, IBM can't magic one up. The only reason for SCO to stall giving evidence is that they don't have any, gambled on their bluff paying off, and lost. It's a rather twisted idea of a fair trial to insist that just because somebody has less resources, they should be allowed to get away with not having their evidence examined properly.
I currently use PlusNet, as it's the only dialup ISP I know of that lets you connect to a free (as in no phone bill) 0808 access number while not having a connection timeout - most ISPs will boot you after 1 or 2 hours. I recently received an e-mail telling me I need to sort something on the online portal, or phone the helpline. The portal directs you to the phone lines, and the phone lines disconnect you. If I knew of an alternative, I'd switch.
Well, if the paper trail and electronic vote disagree, then you know the vote is fraudulent and it doesn't matter which record is wrong - the result must not stand.
Paper trail or not, if they ever tried putting e-voting machines where I live, I'd be sorely tempted to put a brick through the screens.
I think it's company policy these days that any outgoing call centre isn't allowed to say what company they're from.
"Hello, I'm from mfrmndfmrf and we're doing a special off..." "I'm sorry, from where?" "MFRMNDFMRF!" "Well, we're with the TPS anyway, don't call us again!" *click*
I have on my website a tool called "CSS Preview". Nowhere on my site do I mention MySpace. I have a feedback form for this tool, to let passers-by tell me what they think. Every so often, despite the form having a big "CSS Preview User Survey" label over it, I'll get sent a dump of some MySpace CSS file that my site is supposed to magically interpret.
I also once made a fake homepage for Tony Blair, deliberately designed to look as fake as possible, while matching several criteria for being genuine from a particular "spot real pages" quiz (as a joke for a few friends). I get the occasional e-mail from people who think I'm the PM. I wish I could delete the thing, but I no longer have FTP access to the site it's stored on.
... dismisses as 'random malarkey' the idea that Microsoft is having trouble hiring and keeping the kind of brilliant employees that have always been the company's competitive weapon.
In SUSE 10, the drivers are installed via YOU (the 'fetchnvidia' script), in theory. However, it didn't work for me (I think that nVidia's download servers were sucking when I tried), but the manual install is pretty painless as long as you're able to read instructions, and remember which one's which between the generic nvidia and official nvidia when telling sax to switch drivers.
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I got asked "I downloaded a virus writing kit so I could send somebody a virus, but my antivirus says it's infected with a virus, what do I do?". Thankfully, I've never worked in helldesk, this was just a random person that knew I'm "good with computers"
The media industry claim that 100% of piracy represents actual losses is nonsense. The opposite claim - that piracy represents 0% lost sales - is equally nonsense. If full-season downloads weren't available, a good chunk of the people who liked the show enough to download everything would probably have bought the DVDs instead.
Nobody seems to have mentioned the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 yet. IANAL, but I saw one on TV explaining how this act related to dialler fraud - essentially, if you have money that's come from criminal activity, you can't do anything with it. The claim there was that under this act, people can't be billed for calls made by this fraud.
If we apply the same logic to allofmp3, it seems that once the site is ruled illegal, then processing card payments for the site will also be by default illegal. So, they don't need to shut it down - the site won't do you much good if you can't pay them.
Although it's nice of them to helpfully include carefully selected sotware from premier partners (where the careful selection process is making sure it's the highest bidder), even if they promise to be really, really, good and not create a bloated installer, perhaps they could get the message that if I'd wanted to install X, I would have. If I'm installing a player so you can make massive profits selling people the encoder, I shouldn't have to look at ads as well. The fact that they've had to create a FAQ telling people why they shouldn't be annoyed suggests they know this.
So, would their first task after merger be to port Yahoo's massive infrastructure over to.NET? It sure would look bad if they kept Yahoo's BSD-based services. Yahoo also has enough integration issues of its own - for example, combining Yahoo Photos with flickr, Yahoo MyWeb with del.icio.us , etc - bringing another bundle of technology into the mix would just completely bog developers down and allow Google to run further ahead. Plus, there is immense resistance to that sort of change - note the outrage a while back when Yahoo bought up various services like eGroups, and planned to merge them with the Yahoo Clubs. People didn't want their Club turning into a Group (despite the fact that the Groups was a better service). Announcing that your Yahoo Group will become a MSN Group (powered by Yahoo) isn't going to go down well.
Also, perhaps combining the two services wouldn't result in the combined marketshare? I use the search.yahoo.com interface on occasions to get a second opinion to go with Google - surely various other people use various sites in this way. If you turn two sets of results into one, you get one slice of this pie, instead of two. And will the shiny new merged services have every single feature the two previous ones did? I think not, as the most likely course of action will be "throw the worse technology away, add a few features to the better one, and call it a merger". So, you'll lose everyone relying on features X, Y, and Z who now have no reason to use your service.
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Yeah, it'll save them the effort of having to track down all the infringing* sites themselves by hand. They can just enter the top 10 film and music charts, send out the Cease & Desists, and be in the pub by lunchtime.
*Yes, I know some people will claim the trackers are innocent. Please don't flame me to a crisp over it.
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There's one feature I think all phones should have: if anyone selects a ringtone with that @#$% frog in it, the phone should detonate the battery and spray acid in their face.
Big Names. Nintendo announced that new franchise properties will be added to current super-star franchises including Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Bros., Donkey Kong and Metroid. (my emphasis)
Not really. Microsoft could easily find some patent in *their* portfolio that pretty much any piece of sotware infringes, force them into a cross-licensing agreement, and effectively destroy the smaller company's line of attack.
The only defence to being forced into a cross-licensing agreement is to not produce anything.
Even supposing their patent was valid, and Microsoft didn't have anything on them, they'd still be suing much deeper pockets, which is pretty much like trying to overcome a wrongful conviction by banging your head against the prison wall until it collapses.
It all depends if the microphones are linked to equipment which is simply measuring the volume, or recording the actual sounds.
Having lived in a flat very close to a nightclub, I'd support measures to fight their noise nuisance. If you were plotting to overthrow the government, you'd have no worries about the microphone picking it up - the relentless thud, thud, thud would drown you out.
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I get the same thing with mains-powered clock radio alarms - I can't have one in my room and therefore use a small travel clock instead.
Yes, it would be such an injustice if SCO were actually forced to prove their case. If SCO's only way of winning is by making sure IBM doesn't have enough time to discover the legitimate source of whatever SCO picks out of a hat, then they don't have a case, and should lose. If there is no legitimate source for the code in question, IBM can't magic one up. The only reason for SCO to stall giving evidence is that they don't have any, gambled on their bluff paying off, and lost. It's a rather twisted idea of a fair trial to insist that just because somebody has less resources, they should be allowed to get away with not having their evidence examined properly.
I currently use PlusNet, as it's the only dialup ISP I know of that lets you connect to a free (as in no phone bill) 0808 access number while not having a connection timeout - most ISPs will boot you after 1 or 2 hours. I recently received an e-mail telling me I need to sort something on the online portal, or phone the helpline. The portal directs you to the phone lines, and the phone lines disconnect you. If I knew of an alternative, I'd switch.
Well, if the paper trail and electronic vote disagree, then you know the vote is fraudulent and it doesn't matter which record is wrong - the result must not stand.
Paper trail or not, if they ever tried putting e-voting machines where I live, I'd be sorely tempted to put a brick through the screens.
I think it's company policy these days that any outgoing call centre isn't allowed to say what company they're from.
"Hello, I'm from mfrmndfmrf and we're doing a special off..."
"I'm sorry, from where?"
"MFRMNDFMRF!"
"Well, we're with the TPS anyway, don't call us again!" *click*
I have on my website a tool called "CSS Preview". Nowhere on my site do I mention MySpace. I have a feedback form for this tool, to let passers-by tell me what they think. Every so often, despite the form having a big "CSS Preview User Survey" label over it, I'll get sent a dump of some MySpace CSS file that my site is supposed to magically interpret.
I also once made a fake homepage for Tony Blair, deliberately designed to look as fake as possible, while matching several criteria for being genuine from a particular "spot real pages" quiz (as a joke for a few friends). I get the occasional e-mail from people who think I'm the PM. I wish I could delete the thing, but I no longer have FTP access to the site it's stored on.
Am I the only one reminded of The Brillant Paula Bean
But can sheep answer phones?
Based on my past experiences with call centres, I'd have to say yes.
In SUSE 10, the drivers are installed via YOU (the 'fetchnvidia' script), in theory. However, it didn't work for me (I think that nVidia's download servers were sucking when I tried), but the manual install is pretty painless as long as you're able to read instructions, and remember which one's which between the generic nvidia and official nvidia when telling sax to switch drivers.
Well, if you're going to correct yourself, then next time do it quicker so I don't look so silly!
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I got asked "I downloaded a virus writing kit so I could send somebody a virus, but my antivirus says it's infected with a virus, what do I do?". Thankfully, I've never worked in helldesk, this was just a random person that knew I'm "good with computers"
The media industry claim that 100% of piracy represents actual losses is nonsense. The opposite claim - that piracy represents 0% lost sales - is equally nonsense. If full-season downloads weren't available, a good chunk of the people who liked the show enough to download everything would probably have bought the DVDs instead.
Not to be the joke-missing joke-misser or anything, but maybe you've heard of Boing Boing? Either way, extrapolating from two people is dumb.
Nobody seems to have mentioned the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 yet. IANAL, but I saw one on TV explaining how this act related to dialler fraud - essentially, if you have money that's come from criminal activity, you can't do anything with it. The claim there was that under this act, people can't be billed for calls made by this fraud.
If we apply the same logic to allofmp3, it seems that once the site is ruled illegal, then processing card payments for the site will also be by default illegal. So, they don't need to shut it down - the site won't do you much good if you can't pay them.
Although it's nice of them to helpfully include carefully selected sotware from premier partners (where the careful selection process is making sure it's the highest bidder), even if they promise to be really, really, good and not create a bloated installer, perhaps they could get the message that if I'd wanted to install X, I would have. If I'm installing a player so you can make massive profits selling people the encoder, I shouldn't have to look at ads as well. The fact that they've had to create a FAQ telling people why they shouldn't be annoyed suggests they know this.
So, would their first task after merger be to port Yahoo's massive infrastructure over to .NET? It sure would look bad if they kept Yahoo's BSD-based services. Yahoo also has enough integration issues of its own - for example, combining Yahoo Photos with flickr, Yahoo MyWeb with del.icio.us , etc - bringing another bundle of technology into the mix would just completely bog developers down and allow Google to run further ahead. Plus, there is immense resistance to that sort of change - note the outrage a while back when Yahoo bought up various services like eGroups, and planned to merge them with the Yahoo Clubs. People didn't want their Club turning into a Group (despite the fact that the Groups was a better service). Announcing that your Yahoo Group will become a MSN Group (powered by Yahoo) isn't going to go down well.
Also, perhaps combining the two services wouldn't result in the combined marketshare? I use the search.yahoo.com interface on occasions to get a second opinion to go with Google - surely various other people use various sites in this way. If you turn two sets of results into one, you get one slice of this pie, instead of two. And will the shiny new merged services have every single feature the two previous ones did? I think not, as the most likely course of action will be "throw the worse technology away, add a few features to the better one, and call it a merger". So, you'll lose everyone relying on features X, Y, and Z who now have no reason to use your service.
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Then Symantec will sue them for trademark infringement, and two wrongs will make a right! Or something.
Best wait until Monday, when the new opening for Head of Information Security will be posted.
expect the **AA to have a field day with this...
Yeah, it'll save them the effort of having to track down all the infringing* sites themselves by hand. They can just enter the top 10 film and music charts, send out the Cease & Desists, and be in the pub by lunchtime.
*Yes, I know some people will claim the trackers are innocent. Please don't flame me to a crisp over it.
There's one feature I think all phones should have: if anyone selects a ringtone with that @#$% frog in it, the phone should detonate the battery and spray acid in their face.
Well, Nintendo's own site says:
Big Names. Nintendo announced that new franchise properties will be added to current super-star franchises including Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Bros., Donkey Kong and Metroid. (my emphasis)
Not really. Microsoft could easily find some patent in *their* portfolio that pretty much any piece of sotware infringes, force them into a cross-licensing agreement, and effectively destroy the smaller company's line of attack.
The only defence to being forced into a cross-licensing agreement is to not produce anything.
Even supposing their patent was valid, and Microsoft didn't have anything on them, they'd still be suing much deeper pockets, which is pretty much like trying to overcome a wrongful conviction by banging your head against the prison wall until it collapses.
It all depends if the microphones are linked to equipment which is simply measuring the volume, or recording the actual sounds.
Having lived in a flat very close to a nightclub, I'd support measures to fight their noise nuisance. If you were plotting to overthrow the government, you'd have no worries about the microphone picking it up - the relentless thud, thud, thud would drown you out.