You are still using the words "hard radio" together in your meta tags. Under trademark law, this will cuase trademark confusion and dilution of our registered and established marks.
Please remove "hard radio" from your meta tags immediately.
Many search engines (I think) treat commas and spaces in meta keywords the same, as many sites are inconsistent in whether they use commas or spaces to delimit single words. Repeated words can actually hurt your ranking. So taking out "hard radio" may actually have a positive effect on your search ranking since those words appear elsewhere. It's very unlikely that they'd take action against you at that point.
I agree that they are acting like assholes though. Most infringers worth worrying about are a lot more blatant. The company I work for encountered a website with our company's name and the names of several competitors in a hidden list (white on white), with insults for each that would only show up in search results. We didn't take legal action, but we did email them and email a link the dozen or so of our competitors who were also infringed upon. Got a long winded apology and the list was removed.
You also have to take into account that it's stretched over the period of 24 hours. So the amount of caffeine in their system at one time may be much lower. Just guessing, I'd give him a 1 in 4 chance of dying, and 99% chance of a hospital visit.
Their method appears to be for storing a binary copy of the entire customer record, encoded (base64 or similar), encrypted, and checksummed, into a cookie. As prior-art as the title of the patent may appear, I haven't seen it done in exactly this fashion.
If you do it without encryption or without a checksum then you're probably not infringing. Same if you avoid binary encoding. If you save a textual representation of the record, and use a form of encryption that works on plain text, you can achieve the same effect without infringing.
And if someone tries to patent my idea, I'll make business very hard for them.
It seems acceptable for them to replace it after so many problems. Unless you dropped it or submersed it into salt water or something like that. If they are the cause of the problem, you're not at all scamming them by getting a new one to replace your broken one. Few people would break their own system just to get a replacement. Unless you caused the damage through misuse, you should be entitled (morally at least, haven't read the warrany) to a replacement.
I suppose taken down as in Canadian forces launch a surgical strike into Washington state, bomb Microsoft's headquarters, and shoot down Bill Gates' private fleet of hypersonic jets, the smaller jet that pops out of one of the exploding wrecks, all of the parachuters that ejected, most of veteran navy seals made up to look like Bill, and one mutilated corpse drained and refilled with blood that had been drawn from Bill and stored over a period of 5 years. Little would they know that the real Bill Gates will have been surgically altered to look like your average billionaire Columbian druglord. The US will retake Redmond, nuke the crap out of Canada, and everyone will assume that Billy was killed in the initial onslaught. Strong lobbying in Congress will end the drug war and subsidize Columbian drug imports to undercut local competition as reparations for decades of past mistreatment. Everyone lives happily ever after and Gill Bates becomes the world's first trillionaire.
It works quite well from my experience, and something that caught my attention is that by default saves documents into zip compressed xml files that are usually a fraction of the size of MSOffice documents (often 1/10th) and allows for easier integration with other applications.
I'm really annoyed by the sun shaped clippy ripoff though. Haven't figured out how to disable it yet. You'd think they'd learn from Microsoft's mistakes.
The only thing we still need Office for is to work with existing Access databases. But non-development systems can still get along well with the OpenOffice + royaltee-free Access Runtime setup, so the full MS Office is only needed on a few systems at our company.
If you refuse to use a mail client besides Outlook Express: 1) Disable the preview pane. View messages by double clicking them. That way you're never forced to view a message you haven't made the decision to view, either by trying to delete it or by it being the top message in your inbox. This also helps to reduce spam, because spams with linked images can be used to verify that you read the email. 2) Only view email you trust. For the rest, view the message source or ignore the message. 3) The above will stop 99% or more of email viruses out there. To further reduce the risk, patching frequently and using a spam filter helps. Virus scanners like AVG also help but you can expect a noticeable slowdown in system response if you use one. I don't. No virus problems ever in 12 years.
The problem with looking for freeware on freeware/shareware sites is that those sites are desperate for some sort of revenue, so they prefer to host shareware and demos that they can earn revenue from through affiliate links. Having worked for such a site, I ought to know.
Most of the best freeware is open source nowadays. Whenever it's not it's usually to promote a commercial product. CDEX is one of the best cd rippers, sound recorders, and sound converters all in one.
From the article: The mystery amphibian is currently the subject of a frog-hunt after it hopped away and disappeared as staff at the nursery showed it to curious parents.
I'd give it a day or two before declaring that it's real, to give them time to recapture the frog and study it. Even if there were lots of eyewitnesses, the strength of super glue is really quite amazing.
$300000 does look like a lot, but it all depends on how you look at it. For one thing, he owned the site, they didn't. It looks like he made the site himself, from scratch, with his own paid hosting, and allowed the sheriff's office to use it. They didn't pay him a penny. It's his own web forum with the topic of discussion being the country sheriff. If he owns the site, he can take it down any time he wants no questions asked.
He could no longer afford to keep the site up and running, and rather than just taking it down, he gave them the opportunity to buy it from him, to recuperate the costs.
He could have asked for $300 million, and he'd still be in the right. He told them for two years that he can't just keep the site running for free. It'd look bad if he just pulled the plug one day without warning, but it'd still be his own site that he'd be pulling the plug on.
In his shoes I would sue them for no less than a million, and raise the price of the website by another million, first making encrypted backups of the site and then destroying all other backups/copies.
You survive the chopping block by producing quality work. If you still get cut, it's their loss. If they later realize their mistake, it's your gain. Otherwise, if you really were worth your pay, you should have no trouble finding another job.
Autozone is one of the few companies doing well right now... They do not need our assistance...
We want them to use that legal defense fund. It's there for them, and the money may even be returned if the judge orders SCO to pay their legal defense.
The cost of their legal defense vs the cost of them coming to a settlement may very well play a major role. They may know they can't lose and still decide to pay the shakedown money. The effect of Linux users boycotting AutoZone would hardly be noticed.
Slightly offtopic: It appears that SCOX stock dropped 13% in a matter of under 10 minutes this morning. I guess some of the stockholders are beginning to sober up.
The restrictive wording of SCO's license makes it almost impossible to not violate it. Plus SCO can terminate the license at any time without cause and in the license they agree to stop using Linux in that case, regardless of the outcome of SCO's lawsuits. Just about the only way for an end user to subject themselves to litigation from SCO is to buy their license.
.wav is just a container, and pcm is the uncompressed audio format commonly associated with it. I've produced mp3 encoded.wav's that could be played back like other.wav's with the appropriate codecs installed.
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You missed the 2nd notice:
Trademark Infringement Notice #2
Brandon,
You are still using the words "hard radio" together in your meta tags. Under trademark law, this will cuase trademark confusion and dilution of our registered and established marks.
Please remove "hard radio" from your meta tags immediately.
Tracy Barnes
Many search engines (I think) treat commas and spaces in meta keywords the same, as many sites are inconsistent in whether they use commas or spaces to delimit single words. Repeated words can actually hurt your ranking. So taking out "hard radio" may actually have a positive effect on your search ranking since those words appear elsewhere. It's very unlikely that they'd take action against you at that point.
I agree that they are acting like assholes though. Most infringers worth worrying about are a lot more blatant. The company I work for encountered a website with our company's name and the names of several competitors in a hidden list (white on white), with insults for each that would only show up in search results. We didn't take legal action, but we did email them and email a link the dozen or so of our competitors who were also infringed upon. Got a long winded apology and the list was removed.
The far right badger will occasionally disappear and reappear.
You also have to take into account that it's stretched over the period of 24 hours. So the amount of caffeine in their system at one time may be much lower. Just guessing, I'd give him a 1 in 4 chance of dying, and 99% chance of a hospital visit.
Their method appears to be for storing a binary copy of the entire customer record, encoded (base64 or similar), encrypted, and checksummed, into a cookie. As prior-art as the title of the patent may appear, I haven't seen it done in exactly this fashion.
If you do it without encryption or without a checksum then you're probably not infringing. Same if you avoid binary encoding. If you save a textual representation of the record, and use a form of encryption that works on plain text, you can achieve the same effect without infringing.
And if someone tries to patent my idea, I'll make business very hard for them.
It seems acceptable for them to replace it after so many problems. Unless you dropped it or submersed it into salt water or something like that. If they are the cause of the problem, you're not at all scamming them by getting a new one to replace your broken one. Few people would break their own system just to get a replacement. Unless you caused the damage through misuse, you should be entitled (morally at least, haven't read the warrany) to a replacement.
By taken down what do you mean?
I suppose taken down as in Canadian forces launch a surgical strike into Washington state, bomb Microsoft's headquarters, and shoot down Bill Gates' private fleet of hypersonic jets, the smaller jet that pops out of one of the exploding wrecks, all of the parachuters that ejected, most of veteran navy seals made up to look like Bill, and one mutilated corpse drained and refilled with blood that had been drawn from Bill and stored over a period of 5 years. Little would they know that the real Bill Gates will have been surgically altered to look like your average billionaire Columbian druglord. The US will retake Redmond, nuke the crap out of Canada, and everyone will assume that Billy was killed in the initial onslaught. Strong lobbying in Congress will end the drug war and subsidize Columbian drug imports to undercut local competition as reparations for decades of past mistreatment. Everyone lives happily ever after and Gill Bates becomes the world's first trillionaire.
It works quite well from my experience, and something that caught my attention is that by default saves documents into zip compressed xml files that are usually a fraction of the size of MSOffice documents (often 1/10th) and allows for easier integration with other applications.
I'm really annoyed by the sun shaped clippy ripoff though. Haven't figured out how to disable it yet. You'd think they'd learn from Microsoft's mistakes.
The only thing we still need Office for is to work with existing Access databases. But non-development systems can still get along well with the OpenOffice + royaltee-free Access Runtime setup, so the full MS Office is only needed on a few systems at our company.
Probably paid in copies of Microsoft products to public schools, valued at the full retail price.
If you refuse to use a mail client besides Outlook Express:
1) Disable the preview pane. View messages by double clicking them. That way you're never forced to view a message you haven't made the decision to view, either by trying to delete it or by it being the top message in your inbox. This also helps to reduce spam, because spams with linked images can be used to verify that you read the email.
2) Only view email you trust. For the rest, view the message source or ignore the message.
3) The above will stop 99% or more of email viruses out there. To further reduce the risk, patching frequently and using a spam filter helps. Virus scanners like AVG also help but you can expect a noticeable slowdown in system response if you use one. I don't. No virus problems ever in 12 years.
Exactly
bastards
There's plenty of open source out there.
The problem with looking for freeware on freeware/shareware sites is that those sites are desperate for some sort of revenue, so they prefer to host shareware and demos that they can earn revenue from through affiliate links. Having worked for such a site, I ought to know.
Most of the best freeware is open source nowadays. Whenever it's not it's usually to promote a commercial product. CDEX is one of the best cd rippers, sound recorders, and sound converters all in one.
Keep your most valued files on your usb key.
I got impatient and installed 9.2 last night.
From the article: The mystery amphibian is currently the subject of a frog-hunt after it hopped away and disappeared as staff at the nursery showed it to curious parents.
I'd give it a day or two before declaring that it's real, to give them time to recapture the frog and study it. Even if there were lots of eyewitnesses, the strength of super glue is really quite amazing.
$300000 does look like a lot, but it all depends on how you look at it. For one thing, he owned the site, they didn't. It looks like he made the site himself, from scratch, with his own paid hosting, and allowed the sheriff's office to use it. They didn't pay him a penny. It's his own web forum with the topic of discussion being the country sheriff. If he owns the site, he can take it down any time he wants no questions asked.
He could no longer afford to keep the site up and running, and rather than just taking it down, he gave them the opportunity to buy it from him, to recuperate the costs.
He could have asked for $300 million, and he'd still be in the right. He told them for two years that he can't just keep the site running for free. It'd look bad if he just pulled the plug one day without warning, but it'd still be his own site that he'd be pulling the plug on.
In his shoes I would sue them for no less than a million, and raise the price of the website by another million, first making encrypted backups of the site and then destroying all other backups/copies.
1) Send them an email. (done?) ...Done
2) Send more emails, make phone calls. (done?)
3) Complain on Slashdot.
4) Send postal mail.
5) Litigate.
Here's some contact info from their whois.
Codease.com contact:
Gary, Zheng sales@invenmanager.com
200 Jalan Sultan
#20-03 Textile Centre
Sg, Sg 199018
SG
90467520
Invenmanager.com contact:
CAMSOLUTION
Sales, Sales sales@invenmanager.com
21B St Michaels Road
Singapore, Singapore
SG
65-63960575
You survive the chopping block by producing quality work. If you still get cut, it's their loss. If they later realize their mistake, it's your gain. Otherwise, if you really were worth your pay, you should have no trouble finding another job.
Though when you search for XFree86 Porn it returns a Slashdot article.
Autozone is one of the few companies doing well right now... They do not need our assistance...
We want them to use that legal defense fund. It's there for them, and the money may even be returned if the judge orders SCO to pay their legal defense.
The cost of their legal defense vs the cost of them coming to a settlement may very well play a major role. They may know they can't lose and still decide to pay the shakedown money. The effect of Linux users boycotting AutoZone would hardly be noticed.
Slightly offtopic: It appears that SCOX stock dropped 13% in a matter of under 10 minutes this morning. I guess some of the stockholders are beginning to sober up.
Only whenever X is complex.
If they paid in Turkish Lira, a million Lira is equal to 76 cents of US currency.
The restrictive wording of SCO's license makes it almost impossible to not violate it. Plus SCO can terminate the license at any time without cause and in the license they agree to stop using Linux in that case, regardless of the outcome of SCO's lawsuits. Just about the only way for an end user to subject themselves to litigation from SCO is to buy their license.
.wav is just a container, and pcm is the uncompressed audio format commonly associated with it. I've produced mp3 encoded .wav's that could be played back like other .wav's with the appropriate codecs installed.