> The guy continued to send out tweets that he was signing autographs after the giant crowd dispersed.
I didn't see that in a single post about this. Every post I saw said "Cops asked him to tweet that the kid wasn't coming, he refused, he got arrested".
(The kid and his people *did* post that it was shut down on his own twitter account. And whose tweets would you be following - the artist, or some record exec?)
Can you show me an article saying "he kept tweeting that the kid would be there even after the event got shut down" ?
Totally agreed. However, they've now had 8 months since Juniper notified them about the issue. If they aren't in step 3 right now, they totally deserve the public shaming (and loss of stock share value) they would receive.
I can write it in under 140 characters.
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"Tweet" what you're thinking about. Reply to other people's tweets. Follow interesting people. Don't be a douche.
(Wait, scratch that. Obviously "don't be a douche" has no place in social networks.)
From this article, it appears that it was Pond who took it upon herself to publish the rant as a "letter to the editor", appearing to be signed by the original author. (As an aside, since Moreno asked Pond not to publish it, and Pond did so against Moreno's wishes, that reinforces my belief that Moreno's claim of copyright infringement should hold water.) However, the original post was more vague as to who made the decision to attribute the letter to the original author.
Pond *was* fired for her actions. So if you read this (as I originally did) with the belief that Campbell participated in the decision to represent the letter as a submission from Moreno, it stands to reason that Campbell should be fired as well.
Did he do those things? If the message he sent the editor said, in preface to the copy of the rant 'look what so and so said on her blag', then he didn't make a false representation or impersonate anybody.
The gist seems to be that the principal talked to a friend who worked at the paper and said "why don't you post this as a letter to the editor?" The friend published it, but rather than saying "I got this from the principal", the letter to the editor was "signed" with the girl's name, as if she had submitted it herself.
It may not have been the principal's suggestion; it may have been the editor's idea, or some combination of the two, but to readers of the paper, the letter appeared to be submitted by the girl, not the principal. The girl then sued because the principal and his friend at the paper conspired to post something that makes the girl look bad and incited violence against her family.
Unfortunately, the court disagreed.
Have there been any further legal proceedings regarding this case?
/* status 1 indicates that the user's password has been locked out by the administrator */ if (status == 1) {
I'm fairly certain that Joe Bob will really appreciate that comment when he comes along and takes a look at the code for the first time. Yes, after he's been working with the program for a long time, he'll have all the statuses memorized, and this comment will be fairly useless to him. But until then?
Some games do get it right; my recent GBA obsession has been Fire Emblem, and you can turn that off in the middle of your turn (or the enemy's turn) and when you turn it back on, there's a "Resume Chapter" option which picks up right where you left off.
I'd like to think that this is a signal that some companies are thinking of us and adding the features we're clamoring for.
This summer I made a bet with a friend that I could go 10 weeks without a single caffeinated, carbonated, or alcoholic drink... the alcoholic part was easy, because I already don't drink, but I was drinking between 2 and 5 Cokes every day. This bet started, I made lemonade and got Powerade from the store... I had headaches the first couple of days, but the rest of the time I was fine, and I didn't even have caffeine cravings, so the bet was easy. (Well, until day 67, when my car died and I walked about a mile from the auto shop to my place... I had three Cokes that afternoon, but they didn't count.)
I can just see it now... the Highlander MMORPG, where the server keeps stats of how many Immortals you've killed + their kills + *their* kills, etc. etc.... I can see it looking a lot like that Star Wars game on X-Box with the lightsaber battles, eh?
Problem is, will you get stronger with more kills? I'd see people making new characters just to be sacrificial lambs for their friends... alternately, if you don't get stronger, then you could lose your score to some newbie who's a bit better with his sword than you.
On the other hand, you could beef up on NPC Immortals... even pull some from the series and the movies, to make it more realistic. Also, you'd be able to buy and practice with different types of swords (and maybe other weapons as well), different styles of swordfighting... maybe even have a old Immortal - young Immortal teaching system as in the series (and take away major points if you kill your big/little brother).
What else do you think?
(Note: I haven't even started thinking about this from the Watcher's end)
There's something in here to be said about how I can't walk into a CD store, choose a CD that I think looks interesting, open it up, drop it in a CD player, and sample the product before buying it like we used to be able to do with vinyl recordings.
I'm lucky enough to live in a city (Austin, TX) where we can do exactly that. Granted, that's at one store only, but I guess it gives me a big leg up on most everyone else, in that I can listen to the CD before I decide to spend $20 on it. (And yes, this store does sell them at a bit higher price... which is why we usually go there to listen to the CDs, then head somewhere else to actually *buy* them.)
The only issue would be if you decided you wanted to download somebody else's copy of John Denver's Greatest Hits (which was likely from a CD, and a much higher audio quality).
Just as you would not go into a video store and steal a DVD copy of Star Wars and claim that you should be permitted to do that because you own the VHS version, you cannot download somebody else's copy of a recording.
So you're saying that the *exact* reason I cannot go from 8-track to CD is because the quality increases. Doesn't that logically mean that I would be allowed to go *down* in quality as much as I want? So why the hell can't I make VHS tapes of my DVDs, for those times I want to bring them with me to view with friends or relatives who may not have a DVD player yet? Aren't you implicitly saying that that's legal?
Not a bad price at all, when you look at it... it was free last year, but I couldn't expect it to stay that way forever. It's great - high-speed access, Napster... oops. Maybe not.;)
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While you're at it, you might also remove "his" other book that's available, since it appears to just be the second half of the book.
> The guy continued to send out tweets that he was signing autographs after the giant crowd dispersed.
I didn't see that in a single post about this. Every post I saw said "Cops asked him to tweet that the kid wasn't coming, he refused, he got arrested".
(The kid and his people *did* post that it was shut down on his own twitter account. And whose tweets would you be following - the artist, or some record exec?)
Can you show me an article saying "he kept tweeting that the kid would be there even after the event got shut down" ?
I first saw the link to PasswordSafe from Bruce Schneier's site. If I have to take advice from someone on keeping something secure, it's Bruce.
... when Joel Spolsky wrote "Human Task Switches Considered Harmful".
Totally agreed. However, they've now had 8 months since Juniper notified them about the issue. If they aren't in step 3 right now, they totally deserve the public shaming (and loss of stock share value) they would receive.
"Tweet" what you're thinking about. Reply to other people's tweets. Follow interesting people. Don't be a douche.
(Wait, scratch that. Obviously "don't be a douche" has no place in social networks.)
From this article, it appears that it was Pond who took it upon herself to publish the rant as a "letter to the editor", appearing to be signed by the original author. (As an aside, since Moreno asked Pond not to publish it, and Pond did so against Moreno's wishes, that reinforces my belief that Moreno's claim of copyright infringement should hold water.) However, the original post was more vague as to who made the decision to attribute the letter to the original author.
Pond *was* fired for her actions. So if you read this (as I originally did) with the belief that Campbell participated in the decision to represent the letter as a submission from Moreno, it stands to reason that Campbell should be fired as well.
Did he do those things? If the message he sent the editor said, in preface to the copy of the rant 'look what so and so said on her blag', then he didn't make a false representation or impersonate anybody.
The gist seems to be that the principal talked to a friend who worked at the paper and said "why don't you post this as a letter to the editor?" The friend published it, but rather than saying "I got this from the principal", the letter to the editor was "signed" with the girl's name, as if she had submitted it herself.
It may not have been the principal's suggestion; it may have been the editor's idea, or some combination of the two, but to readers of the paper, the letter appeared to be submitted by the girl, not the principal. The girl then sued because the principal and his friend at the paper conspired to post something that makes the girl look bad and incited violence against her family.
Unfortunately, the court disagreed.
Have there been any further legal proceedings regarding this case?
How about this then?
/* status 1 indicates that the user's password has been locked out by the administrator */
if (status == 1) {
I'm fairly certain that Joe Bob will really appreciate that comment when he comes along and takes a look at the code for the first time. Yes, after he's been working with the program for a long time, he'll have all the statuses memorized, and this comment will be fairly useless to him. But until then?
Some games do get it right; my recent GBA obsession has been Fire Emblem, and you can turn that off in the middle of your turn (or the enemy's turn) and when you turn it back on, there's a "Resume Chapter" option which picks up right where you left off.
I'd like to think that this is a signal that some companies are thinking of us and adding the features we're clamoring for.
their classic first question "do you have a firewall?" Answer "yes," and that IMMEDIATELY becomes the problem
The best part is that if you say "no" then *that* can be the problem... "if you don't run a firewall, you leave your computer more open to attacks"
Fun stuff. "Damned if you do..."
I'm still lost on who the heck Natalie H. Gritts is... or what company / organization it's supposed to represent / mock. Any help?
Only way.
This summer I made a bet with a friend that I could go 10 weeks without a single caffeinated, carbonated, or alcoholic drink... the alcoholic part was easy, because I already don't drink, but I was drinking between 2 and 5 Cokes every day. This bet started, I made lemonade and got Powerade from the store... I had headaches the first couple of days, but the rest of the time I was fine, and I didn't even have caffeine cravings, so the bet was easy. (Well, until day 67, when my car died and I walked about a mile from the auto shop to my place... I had three Cokes that afternoon, but they didn't count.)
I can just see it now... the Highlander MMORPG, where the server keeps stats of how many Immortals you've killed + their kills + *their* kills, etc. etc.... I can see it looking a lot like that Star Wars game on X-Box with the lightsaber battles, eh?
Problem is, will you get stronger with more kills? I'd see people making new characters just to be sacrificial lambs for their friends... alternately, if you don't get stronger, then you could lose your score to some newbie who's a bit better with his sword than you.
On the other hand, you could beef up on NPC Immortals... even pull some from the series and the movies, to make it more realistic. Also, you'd be able to buy and practice with different types of swords (and maybe other weapons as well), different styles of swordfighting... maybe even have a old Immortal - young Immortal teaching system as in the series (and take away major points if you kill your big/little brother).
What else do you think?
(Note: I haven't even started thinking about this from the Watcher's end)
Hard deck my ass. We nailed that son of a bitch.
There's something in here to be said about how I can't walk into a CD store, choose a CD that I think looks interesting, open it up, drop it in a CD player, and sample the product before buying it like we used to be able to do with vinyl recordings.
I'm lucky enough to live in a city (Austin, TX) where we can do exactly that. Granted, that's at one store only, but I guess it gives me a big leg up on most everyone else, in that I can listen to the CD before I decide to spend $20 on it. (And yes, this store does sell them at a bit higher price... which is why we usually go there to listen to the CDs, then head somewhere else to actually *buy* them.)
The only issue would be if you decided you wanted to download somebody else's copy of John Denver's Greatest Hits (which was likely from a CD, and a much higher audio quality).
Just as you would not go into a video store and steal a DVD copy of Star Wars and claim that you should be permitted to do that because you own the VHS version, you cannot download somebody else's copy of a recording.
So you're saying that the *exact* reason I cannot go from 8-track to CD is because the quality increases. Doesn't that logically mean that I would be allowed to go *down* in quality as much as I want? So why the hell can't I make VHS tapes of my DVDs, for those times I want to bring them with me to view with friends or relatives who may not have a DVD player yet? Aren't you implicitly saying that that's legal?
... but as I was reading the "Cable Con" article on MSNBC, the following link was at the bottom saying Amazon wouldn't fill these orders.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/887491.asp?0bl=-0&cp 1=1
Ah well...
Not a bad price at all, when you look at it... it was free last year, but I couldn't expect it to stay that way forever. It's great - high-speed access, Napster... oops. Maybe not. ;)