I've been with my ISP for about 12 years now and I've had basically(minus a subdomain) the same email address all that time as well. But my ISP also isn't a big name and I know EVERYONE, including the owners, by name.
I know you're joking but last I recall, AB- blood isn't as much a commodity as you think it is. O+ blood is called the "universal donor" and AB- is the universal receiver and thusly O+ blood gets used a lot and as such guess which blood type is in the most demand...0+. They like to use AB- blood on people who have AB- but if it's not available they tend to take it from the O+ supply which leaves people with O+ blood at a loss.
Besides, in my state it's illegal to sell whole blood; you can sell plasma but not blood.
I thought that was Pfizer and Eli Lilly, not porn...though porn keeps those guys in business as well since the actors apparently take it to, err, work.
Upgrading from Fedora 5 to 6 wasn't a big deal. I changed a few lines in my yum.conf(I think), then it updated me in about an hour; rebooted and I was done. I know it SEEMS like a big deal but if you stick with the net-upgrades, you'll be much happier. Just search for "yum upgrade fc6" and you'll find lots of info that will save you time and energy.
And as a matter of fact the only thing that kept me from upgrading sooner than I did was that I couldn't find a kernel that was specifically labeled for SMP; once I discovered they don't need a specific SMP kernel it was no problem.
I was thinking this exactly. Mom and pop shops would have lots more chance at competition, and you could have a lot of fun monitoring Walmart and report them if they offered anything at a discount. The best thing that Walmart would be able to say then would be that you could pickup everything in the same place instead of shopping 2 or 3 places.
Never have to reboot Windows?!?!? Can you please post your IP so these MS.Blaster worms will have something to feed upon?;) Seriously, if you never have to reboot Windows, you're probably a security risk since you've likely not applied any security patches either.
And just for the record. The point of the GP was that Linux machines tend to have much longer times before a boot is necessary. It wasn't bashing your precious Windows, it was stating a *generalized* fact. I can leave my Fedora server running for 2 months without a single reboot; if I tried that with Windows I'd be at the very least SLOW, and more than likely infected with malware.
It realy does seem to be overly broad that only 'Verizon' is allowed to do VOIP to POTS? Wouldn't every single VOIP provider be screwed by this????
I was wondering about this myself. For one, doesn't the VOIPPOTS get handled mostly by the hardware? VOIP data->audio signal->telephone line? I fail to see how VOIP comes into play other than what it does best, de/encoding the data into/from audio; run a hardwire from your speaker and mic on your VOIP to a telephone and that's basically what they're claiming a patent on, right?
I wasn't exactly kidding. If my mother farted in her car and it somehow got related to Anna Nicole, she'd be immortalized by the media. That's just what the media does to keep the emotional rollercoaster going for the uneducated masses. Yes, it was a joke but that doesn't mean that it's not quite plausible.
You forgot the biggie: Can we relate this to Anna Nicole? Bring that out at the right moment and the story will reach record numbers of readers and it'll be covered forever. I only wish I were kidding.
I know there must have been SOME law against it because his father is an attorney and wouldn't have stood to pay $1500 if there wasn't a law on the books to hold him. His girlfriend at the time(my sister in law) speaks fluent Spanish and she was with him when it happened though she didn't get in any trouble. I'll check with her about the details but there's not likely to be that much difference.
I absolutely did no such thing. Here's a cut-n-paste just in case it's too hard to scroll back: Yes you did. You didn't scroll back far enough yourself. You said:
Archive.org re-publishes other sites' content. That's breaking copyright, period.
Pointing out that under specific conditions republishing is not copyright violation is not enough.
Don't be so obtuse. You implied republishing equates to copyright infringement in every instance but even a single exception brings down your assertion, and the fact that most people don't care is that exception.
Secondly, you don't have a right to not be disagreed with, regardless of the validity of the argument used in explaining the disagreement. If I were a malicious sort your threats of legal action could get you in trouble.
You didn't get my point(it was NOT about being disagreed with, it was about the vague non-contract that you had "breached" by replying..get it now?), and many other things. The "threat" was a joke along with something to think about: You entered into a "contract" with me unbeknownst to you in the same way that Archive.org entered into a "contract" with Shell. You didn't know the terms of the contract were stated by my use of the letter "a" and Archive didn't know Shell's contract involved clicking and agreeing. Regardless of how malicious you might have been there's nothing you can do to get me in trouble for "threatening" to serve you with a subpoena in something that is clearly a joke. I know the law well enough to know better, and I know it well enough to stonewall you into seeing such an action as futile. I'd laugh at anyone attempting such over something so ludicrous...I'm laughing at you now for even suggesting it would be. I know you'll come up with some lame legal mumbo jumbo about how you could have been emotionally threatened by it and needed counseling but even a *death* threat over a *public* forum carries little-to-no weight in court nor consequences since they only give you a summons to appear and it's a misdemeanor at that, and that's if someone makes a death threat; the judge would simply tell you to grow a pair. I've already had this discussion before with my attorney and decided that the loser wasn't worth driving to Georgia if I could only get him with a misdemeanor. You would also find that my assets are kept safe from people like yourself who would even consider such a stupid action, there is no house nor bank accounts or anything else of value in my name and without that you'd just be spending money and time for something I wouldn't even show up for, and you couldn't collect on.
Thirdly, surprisingly enough, you hit on my exact point without understanding it at all. Municipalities and states have used the processes and methods required by statute to specify the nature of the notices for no trespassing signs.
Yep and you missed my point trying to get yours to shine; a "no trespassing" sign has to be posted in a manner that is easily undertandable by those you are accusing of trespassing. For example, I can't post my "no trespassing" sign in Chinese if I live in the U.S. and expect that it will hold water, nor can I write "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" and expect you to know that means you're forbidden to access my posts on my site. Regardless of whether robots.txt is law, it's a *commonly accepted* form of "no trespassing" sign for the domain you're visiting as would be password protection and Shell used neither; she could have simply said "you agree to these terms(click here) by entering "username" "password" into the login field below and she'd have something that required human interaction but she chose to not only ignore protocol, she chose to prove she's nothing more than a litigous twat. BTW, did you see that Archive.org has a robots.txt which prevents spidering by legit web spiders? Nope, you were too busy trying to point out that Archive was trying to set their terms with HUMANS and missed that they use the same protocol the rest of us do. Simply put, until computers are able to comprehend human language, we have to relate to THEIR world, not vice versa; if you think differently then your world must be full of disappointment.
No, that's NOT exactly what republishing content means. It CAN mean copyright infringement if done without permission though not always even if not, but one does not automagically equate to the other simply because you think it should be so. Try again.
Since you think "It's not for you to dictate to me the method I have to use to tell you not to violate my rights." then you're about to be served with a subpoena for violating MY rights. I told you clearly by using the letter "a" in my message that you can't reply with an arguement that doesn't hold water, and the use of the letter "a" in the message was MY method for telling you not to violate my rights. Still feel the same or even understand the catch-22 you presented? Regardless of YOUR thoughts on the matter, I still have to post signs that say "No Trespassing" or have fences on my property before the law will remotely allow me to charge someone with trespassing on my property. The method used to warn people of the trespassing has to be commonly accepted and, guess what, a robots.txt file is the equivalent of a "no trespassing" sign.
And one could say that simply publishing all that content without a robots.txt on the part of the original publishers is essentially giving permission to Archive.org, and one might argue that's a "click wrap" or unspoken contract for publishing your stuff online e.g. "You hereby agree that if your lame ass can't put a freakin' robots.txt file on your site to prevent mirroring and publishing by legitimate web spiders, and you try to sue one for doing their job, you are officially an asshat".
Regardless, Archive.org is too valuable of a service to simply make it opt-in seeing as how most of the publishers I deal with on a weekly basis barely know how Google works much less realize that Archive.org is around to help out. If Archive.org had been collecting on advertising then I'd have an issue with them displaying our content, otherwise it's published to the web for a reason.
Just because they republish content doesn't mean they're BREAKING the copyright. Most of us lucky enough to get our stuff listed by them are more than happy with it and if we don't want it listed we know about robots.txt and if it's already been listed then a simple email to the appropriate people will get it de-listed.
That being said, few people would complain about Archive.org listing their site, fewer would fail to see that robots.txt would be necessary to keep them out of your site and/or know how to get their content removed, and apparently only one person out of millions wants to sue because of her own stupidity, bad planning and horrible understanding of contract law.
Who cares what it calls into play? *YOU* are immediately calling your judgement into play by referring to it as childish instead of addressing a real point of arguement but you're not stopping are ya? It's much easier to attack the way someone speaks than to say something intelligent in response. Do you make fun of people with speech impediments as well?
Just for your info, Linus originally intended Linux pronounced as Lee-noox so that wouldn't be a problem for those of us who are already in the know. Cheers.
And just why is the use of a dollar sign in M$ "childish"? Last I checked our language was evolving and we accept words like "ginormous" and "metrosexual" but heaven-for-fuqing-bid that someone use a dollar sign without permission, huh.
Speaking of a takeover. If you recall, Commodore's assets originally sold for a mere $23 million. That seems high until you look at it that each Amiga user could have donated about $1 and owned the company. It'd have sucked majorly to try to get anything done with it but it'd still have been more productive than the Escom/Gateway/who-the-hell-ever-else-there-was combo that managed to turn Commodore/Amiga into the non-innovative, umm, company it is today.
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Stop blaming dumb things on weed. Try alcohol, or genetics. Those are much more provable.
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I've been with my ISP for about 12 years now and I've had basically(minus a subdomain) the same email address all that time as well. But my ISP also isn't a big name and I know EVERYONE, including the owners, by name.
I know you're joking but last I recall, AB- blood isn't as much a commodity as you think it is. O+ blood is called the "universal donor" and AB- is the universal receiver and thusly O+ blood gets used a lot and as such guess which blood type is in the most demand...0+. They like to use AB- blood on people who have AB- but if it's not available they tend to take it from the O+ supply which leaves people with O+ blood at a loss.
Besides, in my state it's illegal to sell whole blood; you can sell plasma but not blood.
I thought that was Pfizer and Eli Lilly, not porn...though porn keeps those guys in business as well since the actors apparently take it to, err, work.
"Erection is what keeps 'em in business"
Fixed that for ya..;)
Upgrading from Fedora 5 to 6 wasn't a big deal. I changed a few lines in my yum.conf(I think), then it updated me in about an hour; rebooted and I was done. I know it SEEMS like a big deal but if you stick with the net-upgrades, you'll be much happier. Just search for "yum upgrade fc6" and you'll find lots of info that will save you time and energy.
And as a matter of fact the only thing that kept me from upgrading sooner than I did was that I couldn't find a kernel that was specifically labeled for SMP; once I discovered they don't need a specific SMP kernel it was no problem.
I was thinking this exactly. Mom and pop shops would have lots more chance at competition, and you could have a lot of fun monitoring Walmart and report them if they offered anything at a discount. The best thing that Walmart would be able to say then would be that you could pickup everything in the same place instead of shopping 2 or 3 places.
I for one welcome our price-leveling overlords.
Never have to reboot Windows?!?!? Can you please post your IP so these MS.Blaster worms will have something to feed upon? ;) Seriously, if you never have to reboot Windows, you're probably a security risk since you've likely not applied any security patches either.
And just for the record. The point of the GP was that Linux machines tend to have much longer times before a boot is necessary. It wasn't bashing your precious Windows, it was stating a *generalized* fact. I can leave my Fedora server running for 2 months without a single reboot; if I tried that with Windows I'd be at the very least SLOW, and more than likely infected with malware.
Someone needs to mod you +Funny, Mr. Tom Cruise.;)
ooops, that should say "VOIP-to-POTS"..I had accidentally marked it as an html tag.
It realy does seem to be overly broad that only 'Verizon' is allowed to do VOIP to POTS? Wouldn't every single VOIP provider be screwed by this????
I was wondering about this myself. For one, doesn't the VOIPPOTS get handled mostly by the hardware? VOIP data->audio signal->telephone line? I fail to see how VOIP comes into play other than what it does best, de/encoding the data into/from audio; run a hardwire from your speaker and mic on your VOIP to a telephone and that's basically what they're claiming a patent on, right?
I wasn't exactly kidding. If my mother farted in her car and it somehow got related to Anna Nicole, she'd be immortalized by the media. That's just what the media does to keep the emotional rollercoaster going for the uneducated masses. Yes, it was a joke but that doesn't mean that it's not quite plausible.
You forgot the biggie: Can we relate this to Anna Nicole? Bring that out at the right moment and the story will reach record numbers of readers and it'll be covered forever. I only wish I were kidding.
I know there must have been SOME law against it because his father is an attorney and wouldn't have stood to pay $1500 if there wasn't a law on the books to hold him. His girlfriend at the time(my sister in law) speaks fluent Spanish and she was with him when it happened though she didn't get in any trouble. I'll check with her about the details but there's not likely to be that much difference.
Enjoy.
Don't be so obtuse. You implied republishing equates to copyright infringement in every instance but even a single exception brings down your assertion, and the fact that most people don't care is that exception. Secondly, you don't have a right to not be disagreed with, regardless of the validity of the argument used in explaining the disagreement. If I were a malicious sort your threats of legal action could get you in trouble.
You didn't get my point(it was NOT about being disagreed with, it was about the vague non-contract that you had "breached" by replying..get it now?), and many other things. The "threat" was a joke along with something to think about: You entered into a "contract" with me unbeknownst to you in the same way that Archive.org entered into a "contract" with Shell. You didn't know the terms of the contract were stated by my use of the letter "a" and Archive didn't know Shell's contract involved clicking and agreeing. Regardless of how malicious you might have been there's nothing you can do to get me in trouble for "threatening" to serve you with a subpoena in something that is clearly a joke. I know the law well enough to know better, and I know it well enough to stonewall you into seeing such an action as futile. I'd laugh at anyone attempting such over something so ludicrous...I'm laughing at you now for even suggesting it would be. I know you'll come up with some lame legal mumbo jumbo about how you could have been emotionally threatened by it and needed counseling but even a *death* threat over a *public* forum carries little-to-no weight in court nor consequences since they only give you a summons to appear and it's a misdemeanor at that, and that's if someone makes a death threat; the judge would simply tell you to grow a pair. I've already had this discussion before with my attorney and decided that the loser wasn't worth driving to Georgia if I could only get him with a misdemeanor. You would also find that my assets are kept safe from people like yourself who would even consider such a stupid action, there is no house nor bank accounts or anything else of value in my name and without that you'd just be spending money and time for something I wouldn't even show up for, and you couldn't collect on.
Thirdly, surprisingly enough, you hit on my exact point without understanding it at all. Municipalities and states have used the processes and methods required by statute to specify the nature of the notices for no trespassing signs.
Yep and you missed my point trying to get yours to shine; a "no trespassing" sign has to be posted in a manner that is easily undertandable by those you are accusing of trespassing. For example, I can't post my "no trespassing" sign in Chinese if I live in the U.S. and expect that it will hold water, nor can I write "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" and expect you to know that means you're forbidden to access my posts on my site. Regardless of whether robots.txt is law, it's a *commonly accepted* form of "no trespassing" sign for the domain you're visiting as would be password protection and Shell used neither; she could have simply said "you agree to these terms(click here) by entering "username" "password" into the login field below and she'd have something that required human interaction but she chose to not only ignore protocol, she chose to prove she's nothing more than a litigous twat. BTW, did you see that Archive.org has a robots.txt which prevents spidering by legit web spiders? Nope, you were too busy trying to point out that Archive was trying to set their terms with HUMANS and missed that they use the same protocol the rest of us do. Simply put, until computers are able to comprehend human language, we have to relate to THEIR world, not vice versa; if you think differently then your world must be full of disappointment.
No, that's NOT exactly what republishing content means. It CAN mean copyright infringement if done without permission though not always even if not, but one does not automagically equate to the other simply because you think it should be so. Try again.
Since you think "It's not for you to dictate to me the method I have to use to tell you not to violate my rights." then you're about to be served with a subpoena for violating MY rights. I told you clearly by using the letter "a" in my message that you can't reply with an arguement that doesn't hold water, and the use of the letter "a" in the message was MY method for telling you not to violate my rights. Still feel the same or even understand the catch-22 you presented? Regardless of YOUR thoughts on the matter, I still have to post signs that say "No Trespassing" or have fences on my property before the law will remotely allow me to charge someone with trespassing on my property. The method used to warn people of the trespassing has to be commonly accepted and, guess what, a robots.txt file is the equivalent of a "no trespassing" sign.
And one could say that simply publishing all that content without a robots.txt on the part of the original publishers is essentially giving permission to Archive.org, and one might argue that's a "click wrap" or unspoken contract for publishing your stuff online e.g. "You hereby agree that if your lame ass can't put a freakin' robots.txt file on your site to prevent mirroring and publishing by legitimate web spiders, and you try to sue one for doing their job, you are officially an asshat".
Regardless, Archive.org is too valuable of a service to simply make it opt-in seeing as how most of the publishers I deal with on a weekly basis barely know how Google works much less realize that Archive.org is around to help out. If Archive.org had been collecting on advertising then I'd have an issue with them displaying our content, otherwise it's published to the web for a reason.
Just because they republish content doesn't mean they're BREAKING the copyright. Most of us lucky enough to get our stuff listed by them are more than happy with it and if we don't want it listed we know about robots.txt and if it's already been listed then a simple email to the appropriate people will get it de-listed.
That being said, few people would complain about Archive.org listing their site, fewer would fail to see that robots.txt would be necessary to keep them out of your site and/or know how to get their content removed, and apparently only one person out of millions wants to sue because of her own stupidity, bad planning and horrible understanding of contract law.
Just to be clear, it took at least 50 characters for me to judge your level of maturity so you must be better than I. *cough*
Ok, so you addressed the point AND found a way to judge someone's maturity level from a single character. That's mature.
Who cares what it calls into play? *YOU* are immediately calling your judgement into play by referring to it as childish instead of addressing a real point of arguement but you're not stopping are ya? It's much easier to attack the way someone speaks than to say something intelligent in response. Do you make fun of people with speech impediments as well?
Just for your info, Linus originally intended Linux pronounced as Lee-noox so that wouldn't be a problem for those of us who are already in the know. Cheers.
And just why is the use of a dollar sign in M$ "childish"? Last I checked our language was evolving and we accept words like "ginormous" and "metrosexual" but heaven-for-fuqing-bid that someone use a dollar sign without permission, huh.
Speaking of a takeover. If you recall, Commodore's assets originally sold for a mere $23 million. That seems high until you look at it that each Amiga user could have donated about $1 and owned the company. It'd have sucked majorly to try to get anything done with it but it'd still have been more productive than the Escom/Gateway/who-the-hell-ever-else-there-was combo that managed to turn Commodore/Amiga into the non-innovative, umm, company it is today.