Yes. Heaven forbid that some child may see a nipple. Hopefully all those innocent children were given a bottle of formula as soon as they came out of the womb.
With stock markets, rare coins, and jobs that pay $4000/week, the government already has ways that they attempt to cut a cut of the action (read:taxed). However with gambling, if all that money goes offshore they don't get any of it and it becomes harder to track the proceeds from winning.
Stock markets and existing legal gambling venues (be it casinos, OTB, bingo halls, etc) also are fairly well regulated by existing bodies. That regulation is there to protect the investor and gambler. It doesn't mean you will win, but hopefully that you won't lose your money without any chance of making it back. With internet gambling, there is nothing stopping a site from being setup just to bilk you out of your money.
Your comparing the voluntary (but still deceptive) spamming of people with someone getting raped? That is wrong on so many levels. You win the award of bad analogy of the year.
I still don't quite understand why people would rush to get Vista.
For exactly the same reason why people run out and download/install the latest RedHat, Suse, etc distro as soon as it becomes available. Because they can.
There are many technical details why I think the injunction was granted but a stay will also be issued. You point out one very good one just because millions currently use VoIP. There also would be catastrophic damage done to Vonage if the stay was granted but minimal damage to Verizon (and what damage could be recouped) if the stay was granted but later lifted.
How many people here still work for companies where the secretaries and janitors (sorry, don't have the inclination to use the newer politically-correct terms) actually are full-time, fully-vested, non-contracted company employees? I'm praying there are are least a few of you who do.
Where I work almost all secretaries are full time, fully vested employees with pension and profit sharing. We have some maintenance staff that is also the same way. Most of the day to day cleaning or major facility projects are handled by outside companies.
There is a significant difference though. In the case when someone is assulting you, there is an expectation that you should be able to defend yourself and any type of assult done in defense would be justifed. With ViaCom/Google, if ViaCom is being "assulted" by Google, it doesn't mean that ViaCom can turn around and "assult" someone else. Your example would be better if ViaCom started to share Google-owned videos. But even then both companies would be found to be violating the other's copyright as neither infringement would be justified.
There are hacks out there to modify the countthe activation timer so that it never times out. The cracking group Parardox also supposedly released a crack that is suppose to emulate a bios to bypass the activation process all together.
My guess is they don't do it immediately is because there is internal business value in mining the data. User patterns, length of stay, etc. After 18 or 24 months, the internal value has dropped significantly as things change quickly. I would have thought that the value would have dropped even quicker then that, say after 6 months or maybe a year.
Maybe where you live it's not dark, but it is sill here in Northeast Indiana. I usually leave around 7AM and the official sunrise time isn't until 7:57 today. Civil twilight begins about 1/2 hour before the offical sunrise. So part of my commute will be in the dark until the end of the month or so at least.
I believe the royalties are back dated, so right off the bat Vonage owes a chunk of change. And if you were Verizon, which would you prefer, a 5.5% revenue stream but a competitor that is becoming more and more popular that has a cheaper, better product, no no competitor at all?
2) The author obviously never watched Bruce Lee in action. If you plant yourself correctly you can send people flying across the room without moving an inch yourself. However, if you're in midair you certainly can't without the mentioned conversion of momentum.
It's been a while since I was in a physics class, but how would you explain those executive desktop toys that have the set of 5 steel balls that go klick klack. If you swing 2 balls back and let them go (aka kick), when they hit the other 3 balls (aka contact) the far two balls bounce away (aka man flying across the room) while the original two balls stop (aka no recoil). Would not the same thing theoretically be possible with humans?
I don't mean to interrupt your friendly feud, but I have a copy of XP that does not require activation and I've reinstalled it dozens of times on multiple machines. It's a copy I purchased from my university while I was in college and every copy they has exactly the same code so there have been tens of thousands of uses without issue. Not all versions of XP are the same. Since Macthorpe has a roommate, I would suspect that she's in college which would make it a possibility she has access to the same type of install media.
Hey hey hey. This is Slashdot. There is zero room for common sense and logic. However, knee jerk reactions, Microsoft FUD, and pure speculation is always welcomed.
It's a matter of perspective. I agree that it's good that the bugs were found and are being worked on. However it's bad that they were not already detected, that they were not already worked on, or that they were even there.
If you look at the combined content of the separate companies, there is a lot of duplication of effort. Each provider has some exclusive content, but the majority of content is duplicated. There is also 2x the infrastructure, 2x the personnel, 2x the billing systems, etc. Well, it may not be exactly 2x but you get the idea. By combining the two, you combine the customer base yet cut the overall operational budget. Thus the bottom line is improved. There could also conceivably be some added advantages of freeing up bandwidth. Or they could sell of the radio spectrum too.
Nothing will be decided probably until at least years end. Even if they get approval, it will take some time to also figure out the technical details as to who's equipment to go with, who gets laid off, etc. Actual savings probably won't be seen for several years, but if indeed they do merge, the cost of competition gets a lot cheaper in a hurry.
Exactly. Monopolies in and of themselves are not illegal. Antitrust laws make it unlawful to maintain or attempt to create a monopoly through tactics that either unreasonably exclude firms from the market, or significantly impair their ability to compete.
I would say that the existance of PJ means a lot less then what Woodward and Bernstein meant. The effort that PJ has done with Groklaw is great and has been a valuable tool for the lay person standing on the outside. However I'm not sure how much of it really has mattered as part of the case other then as a compilation of information. Most of the analysis has either been something the legal teams on both sides should have already been doing, or it's helping the public in general understand what is happening legally. I don't see her effort as a huge help to the legal case one way or another.
In the case of W&B, they were much more investigative reporters. They weren't just taking existing readily available public information, processing it, and spitting it back out for the public to understand. They were actually digging, finding new information, attempting to assemble the entire picture as new evidence comes out, and then giving it back to the public.
It will be the end of Flash advertisements, javascript and other "interactive" tools. Heck, I won't have to waste hours and hours learning AJAX for Web 2.0 because I would want my sites to be able to be seen in schools and libraries.
Wait...my local library has an interactive catalog. Would they have to block themselves? They probably should already turn themselves in. They have a subscription to Playboy and I'm sure there are countless books that have "porn" in them teaching kids about sex.
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Yes. Heaven forbid that some child may see a nipple. Hopefully all those innocent children were given a bottle of formula as soon as they came out of the womb.
With stock markets, rare coins, and jobs that pay $4000/week, the government already has ways that they attempt to cut a cut of the action (read:taxed). However with gambling, if all that money goes offshore they don't get any of it and it becomes harder to track the proceeds from winning.
Stock markets and existing legal gambling venues (be it casinos, OTB, bingo halls, etc) also are fairly well regulated by existing bodies. That regulation is there to protect the investor and gambler. It doesn't mean you will win, but hopefully that you won't lose your money without any chance of making it back. With internet gambling, there is nothing stopping a site from being setup just to bilk you out of your money.
Anyone who doesn't know what that means probably should get out from the rock that they have been living under.
Everyday is April 1st at the Patent Office. Sadly though, they aren't playing jokes...they are the joke.
Your comparing the voluntary (but still deceptive) spamming of people with someone getting raped? That is wrong on so many levels. You win the award of bad analogy of the year.
There are many technical details why I think the injunction was granted but a stay will also be issued. You point out one very good one just because millions currently use VoIP. There also would be catastrophic damage done to Vonage if the stay was granted but minimal damage to Verizon (and what damage could be recouped) if the stay was granted but later lifted.
There is a significant difference though. In the case when someone is assulting you, there is an expectation that you should be able to defend yourself and any type of assult done in defense would be justifed. With ViaCom/Google, if ViaCom is being "assulted" by Google, it doesn't mean that ViaCom can turn around and "assult" someone else. Your example would be better if ViaCom started to share Google-owned videos. But even then both companies would be found to be violating the other's copyright as neither infringement would be justified.
There are hacks out there to modify the countthe activation timer so that it never times out. The cracking group Parardox also supposedly released a crack that is suppose to emulate a bios to bypass the activation process all together.
My guess is they don't do it immediately is because there is internal business value in mining the data. User patterns, length of stay, etc. After 18 or 24 months, the internal value has dropped significantly as things change quickly. I would have thought that the value would have dropped even quicker then that, say after 6 months or maybe a year.
Maybe where you live it's not dark, but it is sill here in Northeast Indiana. I usually leave around 7AM and the official sunrise time isn't until 7:57 today. Civil twilight begins about 1/2 hour before the offical sunrise. So part of my commute will be in the dark until the end of the month or so at least.
I believe the royalties are back dated, so right off the bat Vonage owes a chunk of change. And if you were Verizon, which would you prefer, a 5.5% revenue stream but a competitor that is becoming more and more popular that has a cheaper, better product, no no competitor at all?
I don't mean to interrupt your friendly feud, but I have a copy of XP that does not require activation and I've reinstalled it dozens of times on multiple machines. It's a copy I purchased from my university while I was in college and every copy they has exactly the same code so there have been tens of thousands of uses without issue. Not all versions of XP are the same. Since Macthorpe has a roommate, I would suspect that she's in college which would make it a possibility she has access to the same type of install media.
Hey hey hey. This is Slashdot. There is zero room for common sense and logic. However, knee jerk reactions, Microsoft FUD, and pure speculation is always welcomed.
Just say $55 less. It's easier that way.
I'd rather imagine being the lucky guy that DOESN'T have to watch 100 Britney videos, every day, as his job.
It's a matter of perspective. I agree that it's good that the bugs were found and are being worked on. However it's bad that they were not already detected, that they were not already worked on, or that they were even there.
What, you mean the marketing guys inflate their numbers? Say it ain't so!
Oh I agree that bringing her in will add nothing to the case from a legal merit. It's just meant for intimidation.
If you look at the combined content of the separate companies, there is a lot of duplication of effort. Each provider has some exclusive content, but the majority of content is duplicated. There is also 2x the infrastructure, 2x the personnel, 2x the billing systems, etc. Well, it may not be exactly 2x but you get the idea. By combining the two, you combine the customer base yet cut the overall operational budget. Thus the bottom line is improved. There could also conceivably be some added advantages of freeing up bandwidth. Or they could sell of the radio spectrum too.
Nothing will be decided probably until at least years end. Even if they get approval, it will take some time to also figure out the technical details as to who's equipment to go with, who gets laid off, etc. Actual savings probably won't be seen for several years, but if indeed they do merge, the cost of competition gets a lot cheaper in a hurry.
Exactly. Monopolies in and of themselves are not illegal. Antitrust laws make it unlawful to maintain or attempt to create a monopoly through tactics that either unreasonably exclude firms from the market, or significantly impair their ability to compete.
I would say that the existance of PJ means a lot less then what Woodward and Bernstein meant. The effort that PJ has done with Groklaw is great and has been a valuable tool for the lay person standing on the outside. However I'm not sure how much of it really has mattered as part of the case other then as a compilation of information. Most of the analysis has either been something the legal teams on both sides should have already been doing, or it's helping the public in general understand what is happening legally. I don't see her effort as a huge help to the legal case one way or another.
In the case of W&B, they were much more investigative reporters. They weren't just taking existing readily available public information, processing it, and spitting it back out for the public to understand. They were actually digging, finding new information, attempting to assemble the entire picture as new evidence comes out, and then giving it back to the public.
It will be the end of Flash advertisements, javascript and other "interactive" tools. Heck, I won't have to waste hours and hours learning AJAX for Web 2.0 because I would want my sites to be able to be seen in schools and libraries.
Wait...my local library has an interactive catalog. Would they have to block themselves? They probably should already turn themselves in. They have a subscription to Playboy and I'm sure there are countless books that have "porn" in them teaching kids about sex.