Check out the Simple Tech SimpleShare NAS. Drop it in the janitor closet someplace locked.
What about just having everyone in the office carry around USB memory devices? You can put just about everything you need on one of those...tell the reporters to run Opera off the keyring, with cookies and history set to delete at the end of the session.
"Sure, seize the hard drive. Tell me what you find. If."
2. It's hard to read an article if you have to subscribe to the site or enter in data about yourself (which most likely will be false anyway)
I never minded entering data about myself, although if I'm in a hurry to see something I'll likely as not just grab a login from BugMeNot. Some online newspapers (I think they are owned by the same company) only ask for a ZIP code, birth year, and gender, and I do not find this obtrusive in the least.
Far more annoying are newspaper sites that insist you must have a paid subscription to the dead-tree edition before you can have access to web content. If someone wants to read one or two stories a month (or one or two stories *ever*), I think it's a bit ridiculous to insist that they subscribe to the physical newspaper. Even more so if that newspaper happens to be hundreds of miles from where they are, and thus will arrive three or four days after the publication date.
"Under the terms of this License Agreement, Ford Motor Co. may revoke your right to drive this automobile if you buy parts or seek service from any person or entity not officially licensed by Ford to provide such parts or services..."
This is nothing new. Nor, for that matter, is it new for the entertainment industry to seek control not only over the content of the media but also the physical equipment upon which the media was played.
Along the Camden, New Jersey riverfront once strode a mighty giant: The Victor Talking Machine Company, maker of the famous Victrola talking machine, Victor records, and owner of that little dog peering into the horn of a gramophone. Back in the early days of the 20th century there was no copyright in sound recordings - instead the records were protected by patents. The record labels, until the last patents ran out in the 1920s, carried notices to the effect that the record was not sold but LEASED under their patents, and would only be owned by the consumer when the last patents ran out.
But that was software; the hardware was even more fun. Until they were stopped from doing this by the US Government in the early 1920s, every Victrola had a license notice affixed inside the record cabinet stating that, among other things, if records or needles made by competitors were used on the instrument, ownership of the instrument reverted back to the Victor Talking Machine Company, who would exercise their legal right under the sale contract to repossess the machine!
There is nothing, absolutely nothing new under the sun...
Yes, other "famous marks" owned by this outfit are "Sentra" (someone better tell Nissan to pony up some dough) and "Stradivarius".
"Stradivarius" IS indeed a trademark - but not belonging to this guy. The Vincent Bach Corporation has been using "Stradivarius" for its top-of-the-line trumpets and trombones since the 1930s.
I'm waiting for him to sue some nine year old over his alleged trademark of "tree house"!
Kodak can sit and spin, they aren't the only supplier of B&W paper. It'd be worse if they got rid of their chemicals, which I do use, but also wouldn't be the end of the world.
All of Eastman's chemical formulae are published, and have been for decades. D-72, D-76, Dektol, you name the chemical and I guarantee you Kodak has published the formula in a ring-binder book available to the public.
If Kodak stops making chemicals tomorrow, you have the tools to put together the hydroquinone, para-aminophenol sulphate, and other ingredients together to make your own.
And no, I don't shoot-and-soup anymore, but when I did (over two decades ago), I used Agfa Rodinal on the negatives - 120 Panatomic X was a symphony with that stuff.
But how will the NYT get along without the buzz of bloggers discussing their content? I guess the answer is "like a local paper." If that's what they want to be, I guess someone else will step up to be the Newspaper of Record.
Please. "Newspaper of Record" is not a slogan; all that the phrase "Newspaper of Record" means is that speeches by the President and other important politicians get their full texts published in the next edition after the speech. Before radio and television carried the voices of Presidents to the masses, the only way the people knew what was being said was to read it in the papers; however, in an era when speeches could be hours long, most small town newspapers simply did not have the space to print anything but excerpts.
Only a handful of newspapers in large metropolitan areas could afford to print speeches and political platforms in full. These newspapers became Newspapers of Record because they literally entered the words of the politicians into the public record.
To my knowledge, The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune both still print the full text of Presidential speeches. I don't know how many other cities have newspapers that do this, but I am willing to bet that at least Washington, DC and Los Angeles do.
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Check out the Simple Tech SimpleShare NAS. Drop it in the janitor closet someplace locked.
What about just having everyone in the office carry around USB memory devices? You can put just about everything you need on one of those...tell the reporters to run Opera off the keyring, with cookies and history set to delete at the end of the session.
"Sure, seize the hard drive. Tell me what you find. If."
2. It's hard to read an article if you have to subscribe to the site or enter in data about yourself (which most likely will be false anyway)
I never minded entering data about myself, although if I'm in a hurry to see something I'll likely as not just grab a login from BugMeNot. Some online newspapers (I think they are owned by the same company) only ask for a ZIP code, birth year, and gender, and I do not find this obtrusive in the least.
Far more annoying are newspaper sites that insist you must have a paid subscription to the dead-tree edition before you can have access to web content. If someone wants to read one or two stories a month (or one or two stories *ever*), I think it's a bit ridiculous to insist that they subscribe to the physical newspaper. Even more so if that newspaper happens to be hundreds of miles from where they are, and thus will arrive three or four days after the publication date.
"Under the terms of this License Agreement, Ford Motor Co. may revoke your right to drive this automobile if you buy parts or seek service from any person or entity not officially licensed by Ford to provide such parts or services..."
This is nothing new. Nor, for that matter, is it new for the entertainment industry to seek control not only over the content of the media but also the physical equipment upon which the media was played.
Along the Camden, New Jersey riverfront once strode a mighty giant: The Victor Talking Machine Company, maker of the famous Victrola talking machine, Victor records, and owner of that little dog peering into the horn of a gramophone. Back in the early days of the 20th century there was no copyright in sound recordings - instead the records were protected by patents. The record labels, until the last patents ran out in the 1920s, carried notices to the effect that the record was not sold but LEASED under their patents, and would only be owned by the consumer when the last patents ran out.
But that was software; the hardware was even more fun. Until they were stopped from doing this by the US Government in the early 1920s, every Victrola had a license notice affixed inside the record cabinet stating that, among other things, if records or needles made by competitors were used on the instrument, ownership of the instrument reverted back to the Victor Talking Machine Company, who would exercise their legal right under the sale contract to repossess the machine!
There is nothing, absolutely nothing new under the sun...
Yes, other "famous marks" owned by this outfit are "Sentra" (someone better tell Nissan to pony up some dough) and "Stradivarius".
"Stradivarius" IS indeed a trademark - but not belonging to this guy. The Vincent Bach Corporation has been using "Stradivarius" for its top-of-the-line trumpets and trombones since the 1930s.
I'm waiting for him to sue some nine year old over his alleged trademark of "tree house"!
Kodak can sit and spin, they aren't the only supplier of B&W paper. It'd be worse if they got rid of their chemicals, which I do use, but also wouldn't be the end of the world.
All of Eastman's chemical formulae are published, and have been for decades. D-72, D-76, Dektol, you name the chemical and I guarantee you Kodak has published the formula in a ring-binder book available to the public.
If Kodak stops making chemicals tomorrow, you have the tools to put together the hydroquinone, para-aminophenol sulphate, and other ingredients together to make your own.
And no, I don't shoot-and-soup anymore, but when I did (over two decades ago), I used Agfa Rodinal on the negatives - 120 Panatomic X was a symphony with that stuff.
Please. "Newspaper of Record" is not a slogan; all that the phrase "Newspaper of Record" means is that speeches by the President and other important politicians get their full texts published in the next edition after the speech. Before radio and television carried the voices of Presidents to the masses, the only way the people knew what was being said was to read it in the papers; however, in an era when speeches could be hours long, most small town newspapers simply did not have the space to print anything but excerpts.
Only a handful of newspapers in large metropolitan areas could afford to print speeches and political platforms in full. These newspapers became Newspapers of Record because they literally entered the words of the politicians into the public record.
To my knowledge, The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune both still print the full text of Presidential speeches. I don't know how many other cities have newspapers that do this, but I am willing to bet that at least Washington, DC and Los Angeles do.