"... Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with a new.sx domain name. 'Control of the island... is split between France and the Netherlands."
Yes, the island is split into French and Dutch parts. The Dutch part is called Sint Maarten and the French part is called Saint-Martin. The respective residents may use those names for the island as a whole as well, just to be confusing; English speakers call the island Saint Martin. I believe the TLD.sx is officially assigned specifically to the Dutch dependency of Sint Maarten, not the island as a whole; the French dependency ISPs apparently uses.fr or.gp (from nearby Guadeloupe). Also, Sint Maarten (the Dutch entity, not the island) used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles, which recently dissolved, and so may be using its.an TLD...
"to allow states to tax online sales to residents outside their state" is exactly backwards! The taxing would, if directed by the state, apply to sales to residents _in_ that state. The writer probably confused "sales by vendors outside the state" with "sales to residents outside the state" for some bizarre reason.
Romaji should be very easy to pronounce correctly (barring the "r"), but Americans manage to severely mangle it anyway. "karaoke" is pronounced as written "ka-ra-o-ke", not "carry okie". And, along the same lines, I should note that "shinkansen" is not pronounced "...-sane"; it's pronounced as written: "...-sen", as in "hen" or "yen".
On his web site http://abelow.com/ can be found his phone number, which correlates to:... It seems he invites telephone contact...
To quote TFS: "... Dan Abelow, who sold his extensive portfolio of patents to holding firm Lodsys in 2004. Lodsys is indeed the company issuing the threats of a lawsuit regarding the patent in question."
So, seems like your beef is with Lodsys, not Abelow, no? Unless you want to harass him for filing a patent that probably shouldn't have been granted, in which case you should be harassing practically every tech company.
Headline is wrong, but to be fair TFA's is as well. It's not 24 rooms, it's 24 room combinations (each consisting of between 4 and 6 rooms as far as I can tell from the diagrams).
Ok, so there's some confusion as to whether there really was a DMCA notice, and whether such notice was (would have been?) valid. Quite aside from that, I am puzzled about the notice response quoted in TFA. Basically, the responder says the material is non-infringing because it has a copyright notice allowing copying/modification/etc. But the existence of such a notice does not in any way guarantee that someone else does not have a legitimate claim of infringement, right? Which is not to say that DropBox has one, just that this does not seem to be a valid argument that they don't.
I took that to mean that his Wikipedia editing constituted research into "peer review", not that he did original research into the topic of the Wikipedia articles.
FTFA: "To keep the government running through Friday, lawmakers approved a short-term spending measure overnight — the Senate at 12:20 a.m. and the House at 12:40 a.m. — and said the final agreement should be approved next week."
In other words, there's a good chance we'll be repeating the whole scenario in another week. Again.
I picture our fearless leaders in a meeting:
A: Let's extend the deadline another week again.
B: Yeah! That way, we can continue to remind everyone each and every week just how dysfunctional we are!
True. But I figured that aspect of the problem had already been covered adequately, and didn't want to people to miss the point I was trying to make by including it here.
According to the article and summary, the problem only affects people that haven't changed their password "in a while". It's not clear when that cutoff date was.
Wired seems to have missed the biggest problem, which was pointed out on reddit: the 8-character limit works both ways! If you set your password to be, say, "Password_8463!", as far as Amazon is concerned you just set it to the rather less secure "Password".
If I only needed to do so once in a while, it might be OK. But when it happens dozens of times a day, the aggravation and wasted time start to add up. Coincidentally, I just posted a complaint about this to the Google Search forum a couple days ago, asking for a profile setting to prevent this behavior.
Oh, and I agree about the domain blocking. Google used to allow this, and they really ticked me off when they took it away. The -site: hack becomes rather cumbersome when there are dozens if not hundreds of sites you want to block.
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Of course, you're free to write your C/C++/Java in a more compact, Lisp-ish way, say:
void foo( int x )
{if (true-expresion) {then-expression; }
else {else-expression; } }
(with the else-expression aligned under the then-expression, which I can't seem to force here)
My co-workers never had to guess which code was written by the unreformed Lisp hacker...
I did. Eventually, for a couple years I maintained a network which grew to about a dozen of them as well, starting with a couple 3600s and adding 3670s and 3640s when they came out. Fortunately, my experience did not match yours. Yeah, I found I needed to re-seat a board on the backplane a few times, but overall life was good. Had a Sun 2 on my desk years later and missed the Lispm's.
Fraud is it's own kind of Crime - it has it's own laws regarding it, why can't Cyber stuff be the same?
Wrong question. Fraud is a type of crime which could be committed through any number of channels, including mail, telephone and online. Why should online -- "Cyber" -- fraud be viewed or treated differently from the others?
That's the other problem. I bought my unlocked phone, bought a T-Mo prepay plan and SIM. But T-Mo assured me there is no way I can get any data plan with that prepay.
Yes, it is. See my login? I tried to register it on a particular deal-posting forum, and had it rejected as unacceptable. Wanna guess which part of "SpammersAreScum" I had to change? (Hint: My initial guess that they didn't like references to "spam" proved to be wrong.)
My webmail provider switched to Zimbra several months ago. It's OK, I guess, but it suffers (in their implementation at least) from a fatal flaw: it is impossible to get it to show you all the message headers (Received lines, et al), so spam reporting is Right Out. And, unlike their previous setup, I have no control over how they filter for spam, beyond specifying whitelist and blacklist.
Well, yeah, the title is somewhat bogus. That's far too common.
The actual story is about the raw seaweed on some sushi, not sushi itself. And it didn't say you couldn't eat/enjoy/digest the seaweed, just that you wouldn't digest it quite as efficiently. The Japanese, according to this study, had gut bacteria that got the ability to better break down the seaweed off of bacteria that was on the seaweed; the theory (apparently untested) is that this enables them to get more benefit out of the seaweed. Which, by the way, means they didn't evolve, their gut bacteria did.
Even if the judge doesn't force a transfer, Cahn has said they'll still continue the IBM suit on contract grounds. SCO's arrangement with its lawyers can keep this going (as well as an appeal) even if they're broke. This definitely has a ways to go, alas...
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"... Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with a new .sx domain name. 'Control of the island ... is split between France and the Netherlands."
Yes, the island is split into French and Dutch parts. The Dutch part is called Sint Maarten and the French part is called Saint-Martin. The respective residents may use those names for the island as a whole as well, just to be confusing; English speakers call the island Saint Martin. I believe the TLD .sx is officially assigned specifically to the Dutch dependency of Sint Maarten, not the island as a whole; the French dependency ISPs apparently uses .fr or .gp (from nearby Guadeloupe). Also, Sint Maarten (the Dutch entity, not the island) used to be part of the Netherlands Antilles, which recently dissolved, and so may be using its .an TLD...
"to allow states to tax online sales to residents outside their state" is exactly backwards! The taxing would, if directed by the state, apply to sales to residents _in_ that state. The writer probably confused "sales by vendors outside the state" with "sales to residents outside the state" for some bizarre reason.
Romaji should be very easy to pronounce correctly (barring the "r"), but Americans manage to severely mangle it anyway. "karaoke" is pronounced as written "ka-ra-o-ke", not "carry okie". And, along the same lines, I should note that "shinkansen" is not pronounced "...-sane"; it's pronounced as written: "...-sen", as in "hen" or "yen".
On his web site http://abelow.com/ can be found his phone number, which correlates to: ... It seems he invites telephone contact...
To quote TFS: "... Dan Abelow, who sold his extensive portfolio of patents to holding firm Lodsys in 2004. Lodsys is indeed the company issuing the threats of a lawsuit regarding the patent in question." So, seems like your beef is with Lodsys, not Abelow, no? Unless you want to harass him for filing a patent that probably shouldn't have been granted, in which case you should be harassing practically every tech company.
Headline is wrong, but to be fair TFA's is as well. It's not 24 rooms, it's 24 room combinations (each consisting of between 4 and 6 rooms as far as I can tell from the diagrams).
Ok, so there's some confusion as to whether there really was a DMCA notice, and whether such notice was (would have been?) valid. Quite aside from that, I am puzzled about the notice response quoted in TFA. Basically, the responder says the material is non-infringing because it has a copyright notice allowing copying/modification/etc. But the existence of such a notice does not in any way guarantee that someone else does not have a legitimate claim of infringement, right? Which is not to say that DropBox has one, just that this does not seem to be a valid argument that they don't.
I took that to mean that his Wikipedia editing constituted research into "peer review", not that he did original research into the topic of the Wikipedia articles.
FTFA: "To keep the government running through Friday, lawmakers approved a short-term spending measure overnight — the Senate at 12:20 a.m. and the House at 12:40 a.m. — and said the final agreement should be approved next week."
In other words, there's a good chance we'll be repeating the whole scenario in another week. Again.
I picture our fearless leaders in a meeting:
A: Let's extend the deadline another week again.
B: Yeah! That way, we can continue to remind everyone each and every week just how dysfunctional we are!
True. But I figured that aspect of the problem had already been covered adequately, and didn't want to people to miss the point I was trying to make by including it here.
According to the article and summary, the problem only affects people that haven't changed their password "in a while". It's not clear when that cutoff date was.
Wired seems to have missed the biggest problem, which was pointed out on reddit: the 8-character limit works both ways! If you set your password to be, say, "Password_8463!", as far as Amazon is concerned you just set it to the rather less secure "Password".
If I only needed to do so once in a while, it might be OK. But when it happens dozens of times a day, the aggravation and wasted time start to add up. Coincidentally, I just posted a complaint about this to the Google Search forum a couple days ago, asking for a profile setting to prevent this behavior.
Oh, and I agree about the domain blocking. Google used to allow this, and they really ticked me off when they took it away. The -site: hack becomes rather cumbersome when there are dozens if not hundreds of sites you want to block.
Of course, you're free to write your C/C++/Java in a more compact, Lisp-ish way, say:
void foo( int x )
{if (true-expresion) {then-expression; }
else {else-expression; }
}
(with the else-expression aligned under the then-expression, which I can't seem to force here)
My co-workers never had to guess which code was written by the unreformed Lisp hacker...
Ever use one?
I did. Eventually, for a couple years I maintained a network which grew to about a dozen of them as well, starting with a couple 3600s and adding 3670s and 3640s when they came out. Fortunately, my experience did not match yours. Yeah, I found I needed to re-seat a board on the backplane a few times, but overall life was good. Had a Sun 2 on my desk years later and missed the Lispm's.
Wrong question. Fraud is a type of crime which could be committed through any number of channels, including mail, telephone and online. Why should online -- "Cyber" -- fraud be viewed or treated differently from the others?
I have t-mobile prepay. I just sent a text to 46645 and got a prompt text back with the info for the store I specified.
There's no mention of pirates or piracy in TFA. So why is it in TFS??? It's a red herring.
Unfortunately for your argument, Google Voice previously existed as Grand Central; Google just bought it and integrated it.
That's the other problem. I bought my unlocked phone, bought a T-Mo prepay plan and SIM. But T-Mo assured me there is no way I can get any data plan with that prepay.
Perhaps the ietab2 or ietab plus addon would solve your problem?
Yes, it is. See my login? I tried to register it on a particular deal-posting forum, and had it rejected as unacceptable. Wanna guess which part of "SpammersAreScum" I had to change? (Hint: My initial guess that they didn't like references to "spam" proved to be wrong.)
My webmail provider switched to Zimbra several months ago. It's OK, I guess, but it suffers (in their implementation at least) from a fatal flaw: it is impossible to get it to show you all the message headers (Received lines, et al), so spam reporting is Right Out. And, unlike their previous setup, I have no control over how they filter for spam, beyond specifying whitelist and blacklist.
Well, yeah, the title is somewhat bogus. That's far too common. The actual story is about the raw seaweed on some sushi, not sushi itself. And it didn't say you couldn't eat/enjoy/digest the seaweed, just that you wouldn't digest it quite as efficiently. The Japanese, according to this study, had gut bacteria that got the ability to better break down the seaweed off of bacteria that was on the seaweed; the theory (apparently untested) is that this enables them to get more benefit out of the seaweed. Which, by the way, means they didn't evolve, their gut bacteria did.
...from his humorous Year-In-Review. Haven't been able to find it online.
Even if the judge doesn't force a transfer, Cahn has said they'll still continue the IBM suit on contract grounds. SCO's arrangement with its lawyers can keep this going (as well as an appeal) even if they're broke. This definitely has a ways to go, alas...