Think about it this way. If you had the domain, you would earn a revenue of $x per day say.
Your domain is stolen, so you lose your $x per day. There are also potential customers who would have bought something in the future (maybe they're still shopping around), but now they think your business doesn't exist and never comes back again.
Now you may have spent $y on advertising and promotion to get that customer here in the first place, now you've lost them and you have to spend more to get them back.
Clearly having a domain stolen constitutes more damages than actual running revenue
He said it is not to be sold. This is very common for freeware and shareware. Although users are allowed to DL the stuff for free, authors don't want companies putting their software on a CD then selling the CD as 'shareware 2001' or whatever and making money off them. Here, it is clear that the software was being touted as a competitive feature of the hardware being sold. Thus the company was gaining financial benefit from the software and violates the 'not to be sold' portion of his licence.
The next step is easy. How can you make something for free, and still eat? That is the question on every artist's mind. Solve that problem, and everything will become free.
The thing is, if you think of software patents as essentially enhanced copyright, then perhaps the way to look at it is that we should enhance copyright laws to protect software, rather than turn patents into copyrights.
You totally misunderstand why we bitch about the One-Click patent.
It is not whether the idea is stupid or not. It is about prior art. One-Click is exactly the same as going into a shop where they have your details from before and you being able to pay by credit card and them getting your delivery address from their database.
I don't know whether there is a patent for the tangible space version, but it is clearly the same as the electronic version, and thus constitutes prior art.
The difference in being cleaner is that thousands of electric cars have their energy produced at one giant electric company whose generator can be made as efficient as possible using the $ from these thousands of cars.
Compare this to each person having their own generator, which they have to carry around, and are not able to be as efficient due to space, weight, and monetary constraints. That is the difference.
.1mm thick inkjet lines? I'm guessing u can't use a laser printer type thing since you'd melt the plastic.
So how big will our chips be?
And, are we buying a licence to print the processor, does the actual processor belong to us, and are we allowed to print duplicates when the dog eats the 1st one?
Senator Richard Alston, Ministor for Communications, IT will be at the IT Expo 10am 7th March. Free tix can be obtained at www.itexpo.com.au
If anyone doesn't have to work they can try to question him there in front of all the computer types that will be there.
If anyone is up to writing a letter outlining our objections to this law so that the rest of us can mail it to our reps, it would be good. This IS an election year.
how was his freedom of speech clearly violated?
they didn't shut down his site or tape his mouth shut.
If you went into say your local immigration department (or some gov't institution where there are lots of people) with a laptop and showed the same site to everyone you could, would you not expect to be told to shut up or get out?
The ass. principal decided that instead of doing it the proper way and issuing a slander suit, they'd get lazy and use their position at the school to exact revenge/punishment. That should be the main issue, not alleged free speech stuff.
With ad companies refusing to pay sites running their ads, affiliate companies refusing to pay sites running their affiliate boxes, what's to stop micropayment companies refusing to pay sites?
How many times have people with smaller sites come within like $2-3 to the payment threshold only to be told they've decided to stop paying and sorry if you didn't earn enough, we'll just keep your money?
If micropayment companies take a cut of the payment, then it'd take even longer to earn your threshold (depending on what type of users your site has).
Actually, many STARTED with subscription services, which failed because nobody wanted to subscribe for content whose value isn't worth paying for when you could get similar stuff for FREE. THEN, they moved to banner ads, and the NYT type free subscriptions, which don't work because you don't get much revenue from that.
I'd be interested to see how those sites with all those tables that constrain all their site to vga width deal with these ads. Surely the designers' heads will explode!
Design the site for vga, but put a 1500x1500 ad in there! haha.
If you live a forgotten part of the world like Australia, you'd be lucky if any games companies have decided it's worthwhile installing a server less than halfway around the world from here. You want to play against your friend 2 streets away? Go thru a server in the US or EU!
All they care about are US citizens. And that being the case, they can easily assume many people have broadband.
that use Javascript to write frames. When your JS is turned off you get a stupid message saying you should 'upgrade' to NS3 or above. Then when you turn JS on and revisit the page half the time the stupid webmaster has stuffed up the html and you get a blank page anyway!
Why all this stuff to force consumers to pay them for any equipment that might be used to copy music that's worth $20 a CD? Consumers have been using the same equipment to copy SOFTWARE worth hundreds to thousands of dollars! And for MUCH longer. If that didn't warrant taxes, why should stupid CDs?
One platter, one head, 2 platters, 2 heads. Yes, one platter is better, fewer parts, fewer manufacturing defects to worry about. It might even be cheaper to design and produce, who knows?
what like getrich@aol.com or printerink@yahoo.com? I think much spam has from headers which specify a 'major' isp or provider, and also route thru them too.
To work out whether it's sent to more than one person you'd have to keep pretty big logs and compare every mail to every other mail in the logs to see if they're the same. That's increasing the load on a surveillance system even more than just having to process spam.
I'd like to propose an experiment. We should allow ppl to put JS in their posts here for about a week, and see what people can get up to.
Then the next week all the smart people can suggest how to implement a security model, after which we'll go for another week and see if anything improves.
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Think about it this way. If you had the domain, you would earn a revenue of $x per day say.
Your domain is stolen, so you lose your $x per day. There are also potential customers who would have bought something in the future (maybe they're still shopping around), but now they think your business doesn't exist and never comes back again.
Now you may have spent $y on advertising and promotion to get that customer here in the first place, now you've lost them and you have to spend more to get them back.
Clearly having a domain stolen constitutes more damages than actual running revenue
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He said it is not to be sold. This is very common for freeware and shareware. Although users are allowed to DL the stuff for free, authors don't want companies putting their software on a CD then selling the CD as 'shareware 2001' or whatever and making money off them. Here, it is clear that the software was being touted as a competitive feature of the hardware being sold. Thus the company was gaining financial benefit from the software and violates the 'not to be sold' portion of his licence.
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we get an article like this every few months, and the net still seems to be up... don't u get bored of reading the same over and over?
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Currency must be scarce, hard to forge, easy to identify, durable.
A string of numbers that represents an amount of gold in some location is just wierd.
At least in a bank account, you know you can turn your numbers into colored pieces of paper given a few days notice....
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The next step is easy. How can you make something for free, and still eat? That is the question on every artist's mind. Solve that problem, and everything will become free.
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OK, could someone now explain to the rest of us what the XOR patent for cursor display is?
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Then but what happens with the one that goes in?
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Actually, would the police bother with their time if they found the same line on a piece of paper in the principal's office?
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The thing is, if you think of software patents as essentially enhanced copyright, then perhaps the way to look at it is that we should enhance copyright laws to protect software, rather than turn patents into copyrights.
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You totally misunderstand why we bitch about the One-Click patent.
It is not whether the idea is stupid or not. It is about prior art. One-Click is exactly the same as going into a shop where they have your details from before and you being able to pay by credit card and them getting your delivery address from their database.
I don't know whether there is a patent for the tangible space version, but it is clearly the same as the electronic version, and thus constitutes prior art.
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Don't forget DAT, CD singles, DCC, DVDs, and mp3s.
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The difference in being cleaner is that thousands of electric cars have their energy produced at one giant electric company whose generator can be made as efficient as possible using the $ from these thousands of cars. Compare this to each person having their own generator, which they have to carry around, and are not able to be as efficient due to space, weight, and monetary constraints. That is the difference.
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Yes, and while we're at it, we should boycott DVDs for the DeCSS crap and the region locks. Oh wait...
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.1mm thick inkjet lines? I'm guessing u can't use a laser printer type thing since you'd melt the plastic.
So how big will our chips be?
And, are we buying a licence to print the processor, does the actual processor belong to us, and are we allowed to print duplicates when the dog eats the 1st one?
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Senator Richard Alston, Ministor for Communications, IT will be at the IT Expo 10am 7th March. Free tix can be obtained at www.itexpo.com.au
If anyone doesn't have to work they can try to question him there in front of all the computer types that will be there.
If anyone is up to writing a letter outlining our objections to this law so that the rest of us can mail it to our reps, it would be good. This IS an election year.
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how was his freedom of speech clearly violated?
they didn't shut down his site or tape his mouth shut.
If you went into say your local immigration department (or some gov't institution where there are lots of people) with a laptop and showed the same site to everyone you could, would you not expect to be told to shut up or get out?
The ass. principal decided that instead of doing it the proper way and issuing a slander suit, they'd get lazy and use their position at the school to exact revenge/punishment. That should be the main issue, not alleged free speech stuff.
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With ad companies refusing to pay sites running their ads, affiliate companies refusing to pay sites running their affiliate boxes, what's to stop micropayment companies refusing to pay sites?
How many times have people with smaller sites come within like $2-3 to the payment threshold only to be told they've decided to stop paying and sorry if you didn't earn enough, we'll just keep your money?
If micropayment companies take a cut of the payment, then it'd take even longer to earn your threshold (depending on what type of users your site has).
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Actually, many STARTED with subscription services, which failed because nobody wanted to subscribe for content whose value isn't worth paying for when you could get similar stuff for FREE. THEN, they moved to banner ads, and the NYT type free subscriptions, which don't work because you don't get much revenue from that.
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I'd be interested to see how those sites with all those tables that constrain all their site to vga width deal with these ads. Surely the designers' heads will explode!
Design the site for vga, but put a 1500x1500 ad in there! haha.
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If you live a forgotten part of the world like Australia, you'd be lucky if any games companies have decided it's worthwhile installing a server less than halfway around the world from here. You want to play against your friend 2 streets away? Go thru a server in the US or EU!
All they care about are US citizens. And that being the case, they can easily assume many people have broadband.
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that use Javascript to write frames. When your JS is turned off you get a stupid message saying you should 'upgrade' to NS3 or above. Then when you turn JS on and revisit the page half the time the stupid webmaster has stuffed up the html and you get a blank page anyway!
Don't webmasters test their code?
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Why all this stuff to force consumers to pay them for any equipment that might be used to copy music that's worth $20 a CD? Consumers have been using the same equipment to copy SOFTWARE worth hundreds to thousands of dollars! And for MUCH longer. If that didn't warrant taxes, why should stupid CDs?
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One platter, one head, 2 platters, 2 heads. Yes, one platter is better, fewer parts, fewer manufacturing defects to worry about. It might even be cheaper to design and produce, who knows?
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what like getrich@aol.com or printerink@yahoo.com? I think much spam has from headers which specify a 'major' isp or provider, and also route thru them too.
To work out whether it's sent to more than one person you'd have to keep pretty big logs and compare every mail to every other mail in the logs to see if they're the same. That's increasing the load on a surveillance system even more than just having to process spam.
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The problem is not HTML. It's javascript.
I'd like to propose an experiment. We should allow ppl to put JS in their posts here for about a week, and see what people can get up to.
Then the next week all the smart people can suggest how to implement a security model, after which we'll go for another week and see if anything improves.
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