Oh is it now? What precendent are you quoting exactly your honor?
What is and isn't private and what is protected is much bigger legal matter than just announcing there is no expectation of privacy. Not to mention what court are you quoting? Which case? Which circuit?
This also ignores varius state-wide privacy protection laws and possibly constituional law considering this data is going straight to an intelligence agency.
Sorry, but its not as cut and dried as you think. Lastly, I can run a sniffer on my network, but when I run one on yours, guess what, I've broken more than a couple laws.
>>which goes to my college, I should be able to go to college for free.
>. So, your argument does work. Congrats.
No it doesn't. Hes asking for free tution. Not to mention he pays federal taxes yet only gets a 'discount' for being in state. Federal does not equal state.
>hink a lot of folks are looking at the fact that Sony is a member of the Blu Ray consortium and saying
Actually the consensus I see is "Sony will make playstation 3s, sony will make media, Sony owns enough of Hollywood/Music Industry, etc so Bluray will win." Sony, in any other country, would be brought up on anti-trust laws. The japanese seem more than a little lax in this department.
>I've gotta say, I don't really see the innovation yet being stifled.
You are missing the obvious because companies make an effort not to advertise their litigation problems. The last couple companies I've worked at were under the gun for some ridiculous obvious-type patents. They were either in litigation or ended up paying royalties. The royalties money is higher than you think. They pass the price onto you, the consumer, when you buy their products. So its transparent only in the way that you're paying more for goods for no good reason.
As far as stifling go, well, that's a tough one. Companies with the resources or just the chutpaz to brave the patent minefield tend to do well enough, but how many start-ups or products get aborted early on because of fears of patents? I'd think more than we know.
This guy will be kicking himself the rest of his days remembering telling Balmer "NO! 50 Million is not enough, we demand 250! Or we'll see you in court." So long patent abuser.
Even if MS paid them it would be a bit like dealing with kidnappers or blackmailers. The price could rise again when the contract is us.
If youre counting.x releases of OS X, then Service Pack one and especially SP 2 certainly fall in the same category. Not to mention Service Pack 3 and 4 for the Win2k products. Not to mention the media and tablet editions. So you could add five or six more items to your list.
Frankly, it makes my life a lot easier now that people seem to be standardizing on XP. The longer vista takes, the better. Ironically, its when I have to support macs is when the headaches come in.
>IIRC it is now illegal to even say anything that could even be construed as "glorifying" terrorism, we are already slipping down that slope.
Oh come on. Google his name.
(A) Younis Tsouli, 22, of Richmond Way, Shepherd's Bush
he had in his bedroom a video, on a computer hard drive, showing how to make a car bomb
he possessed a video, on a hard drive, showing a number of places in Washington DC and including a CRBN (chemical, radiological, biological and nuclear) vehicle.
before October 31 this year he, with Mughal and others, conspired together to murder a person unknown
he "unlawfully and maliciously" conspired together with Mughal and others to cause an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life in the United Kingdom
he conspired to dishonestly obtain property from credit cards belonging to others
His name came up after they arrested another guy with a working suicide belt. This isnt a case of the slippery slope, this is how you bust terrorist cells.
>like most of these cheapies, have to be replaced yearly?
In my experience that's not true. First off, lots of potential PC gamers are pretty damn poor. Students, kids, etc. The onboard card doesnt cut it for a variety of reasons. Too laggy in "low," not enough video RAM, etc.
A midrange to low card can give these players enough power to run a lot of games at medium to high (at certain resolutions) for a long time coming. Even when it becomes the equivalant of a geforce2 today it still may beat the onboard GPU. For instance there's a gf2 on my work computer in case I want to fire up WoW when I have downtime. Sure it runs at 800x600, but it runs well enough where I can play an instance without horrible lag. The onboard card doesnt even do T&L.
So I don't buy the myth that even a low powered card isnt worth buying. They very much are worth buying when people refuse to pay 200 dollars for some component to play a 50 dollar game now and again. If anything the OEMs should be putting these things into PCs and laptops anyway as opposed to just sticking with the intel chipsets.
>You must have an optimistic view of the way our legal system works.
I have worked in the legal field and have more than a couple lawyer friends. I have a good idea what kind of effort this case would demand. You have slashdot defeatism. Good luck with that. It keeps people like Cory well-established and credible without putting his money where his mouth is.
F'n finally? I get the outlook itch when I want some calendering done, and anweb browser extension or stand alone app just isnt cutting it. I need it intergrated into my email client when I'm actually, you know, emailing people about dates and events.
Typed Drawing Word Mark SUPER HEROES Goods and Services IC 016. US 002 005 022 023 029 037 038 050. G & S: PUBLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY COMIC BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND STORIES IN ILLUSTRATED FORM [(( ; CARDBOARD STAND-UP FIGURES; PLAYING CARDS; PAPER IRON-ON TRANSFER; ERASERS; PENCIL SHARPENERS; PENCILS; GLUE FOR OFFICE AND HOME USE, SUCH AS IS SOLD AS STATIONERY SUPPLY;] NOTEBOOKS AND STAMP ALBUMS )). FIRST USE: 19661000. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19661000 Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING Design Search Code Serial Number 73222079 Filing Date July 3, 1979 Current Filing Basis 1A Original Filing Basis 1A Published for Opposition June 9, 1981 Registration Number 1179067 Registration Date November 24, 1981 Owner (REGISTRANT) Cadence Industries Corporation a.k.a. Marvel Comics Group and DC Comics Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 575 Madison Ave. New York NEW YORK 10022
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Right. These C&D's have been going on from at least the 80s. I love how Cory likes to ignore this fact and assumes this is something new. As far as being 'our word' umm I don't think so. I don't like the ownership of words as its prone to abuse but this is pretty legal to me. The guy who owns the word stealth should be getting this attention and criticism. Seriously, if Cory thinks this is an illegal use of trademark and copyright why doesn't he sue Marvel and DC over it? I'm sure whatever money needed could easily be gathered from donations, but he seems to be happy just being the voice of "cool overopinioned download my book" web guy. Hell, I'd donate just to see if there was some validity here. It sure beats just bitching on a blog someplace. A lot of Doctorow's complaints really do need to be tried in court. The court of public opinion is getting him and his supporters nowhere.
Seriously, put it to the test. To win all Cory needs to prove is that most people associate the word superhero with characters outside of Marvel and DC. Prove the trademark is truly diluted and therefore must be revoked.
Not to mention there's a workaround here. Stop using the word superhero. Just stop. Many writers have abandoned it. I believe Alan Moore used "Science Heroes" in his Promethea series. It would be nice to see everyone abandon the word and let it become stale. Then the term superhero would be associated with dusty and irrelevant characters from the past. After a while fans will cringe upon seeing it. It would represent overlitigious nonsense and hackneyed stories of men in tights beating up muggers.
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Yep. There's this assumption that any production team can break up for a while and then get right back into the groove they had years previous. Usuually that's just wrong. The latest example I can think of is the handful of new Aqua Teen episodes aired on the cartoon network a few months back. Just really unfunny and all that time off did affect the creative process. Or look at the severe decline in quality at the simpsons since real talent like Conan OBrien has left.
Of course this is the last thing fans want to hear. Hopefully, the futurama team will still be able to deliver the funny.
Cash grab? I dont know his motivations but these are real questions that need to be answered. The legality of google's cache was always in question. For instance a person could delete a webpage but still find it in the cache. That person can ask a valid question about copyright, control, republishing, etc, etc.
The courts so far have ruled that these caches are legal and the search engine people are not doing wrong. This suit along with another one builds precendce over these types of concerns. So its been a long time coming.
Now people concerned with privacy can get educated about how to block robots/spider, how public the web/usenet is, and how to work around this.
Exactly. The disruptive technology, (man Im sick of that phrase, its been coopted by the web2.0 crowd) is here, but the event that turns tech into a social or economic change is extremely difficult to predict. The story of the world wide web and the internet is usually quoted in these types of articles, but it wasnt until Mosaic/Netscape popularized the technology with pretty graphics and the promises of new content.
Every commonplace invention shares the similiar fate. Maybe with biotech it'll be the promise of longevity that'll get it rolling into the mainstream. Maybe with nanotech it'll be a self-replicating house cleaner, like how roomba is the most successful commercial robot. Who knows, but the tech certainly is here.
Geeks mostly. Its amusing to see fiction applied to real life, like it matters. We're talking military machines here. I wouldnt be surprised if an autonomous killing machine was in service within the next few years.
This is like talking about economic systems and saying 'But the communist manifesto says this!!!' The real world, as always, is more interesting and less idealistic than predictions or well intentioned publishings.
Exactly. The culture of cool rules here and its tough to get in. Look at the Sidekick, it a mediocre PDA-Phone but with rap stars and Paris Hilton paid to promote it, its suddenly the must have pda-phone for so many kids. Most of whom would have been happy with a plain-jane cell phone.
Your right, before the ipod, the other players like Archos were making big ugly boxes. But those players were very functional. Unfortunately, that meant 'geeky' and 'nerdy' to everyone else. Apple sexed up the product and now Joe Blow can get into this "mp3 thing I've been hearing about." Which is slightly ironic as most users buy DRM aac songs from Apple and probably don't have a single real mp3 on there.
>Perhaps the parent tried disabling his swapfile when he only had 128MB of RAM?
Nope, theres a long list of apps that wont work without a pagefile. MS advises against it too. I wouldnt suggest this without telling people that they will run into weird problems.
Do not turn off swap file. Windows will not remotely work right without one. You can knock it down to 512 or 256 megs if you life. Windows generally won't use it until you're out of memory. Generally.
Other than the obvious suggested already, disk management is often overlooked. After you uninstall or install a game, defrag the drive. Applying a patch? Defrag. Changing the size of your swap file? Defrag.
Shut off indexing. Shut off any service you don't need or use.
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>It is in the same category as a post card.
Oh is it now? What precendent are you quoting exactly your honor?
What is and isn't private and what is protected is much bigger legal matter than just announcing there is no expectation of privacy. Not to mention what court are you quoting? Which case? Which circuit?
This also ignores varius state-wide privacy protection laws and possibly constituional law considering this data is going straight to an intelligence agency.
Sorry, but its not as cut and dried as you think. Lastly, I can run a sniffer on my network, but when I run one on yours, guess what, I've broken more than a couple laws.
>>which goes to my college, I should be able to go to college for free.
>. So, your argument does work. Congrats.
No it doesn't. Hes asking for free tution. Not to mention he pays federal taxes yet only gets a 'discount' for being in state. Federal does not equal state.
>hink a lot of folks are looking at the fact that Sony is a member of the Blu Ray consortium and saying
Actually the consensus I see is "Sony will make playstation 3s, sony will make media, Sony owns enough of Hollywood/Music Industry, etc so Bluray will win." Sony, in any other country, would be brought up on anti-trust laws. The japanese seem more than a little lax in this department.
>The BS online "RPG" that 2 of my granddaughters and ALL THEIR FREINDS play isn't too far from a MLP universe..
Okay, I give up. What BS RPG are you talking about?
"We should be so lucky!"
Why did I read that in Dr. Zoidberg's voice?
>I've gotta say, I don't really see the innovation yet being stifled.
You are missing the obvious because companies make an effort not to advertise their litigation problems. The last couple companies I've worked at were under the gun for some ridiculous obvious-type patents. They were either in litigation or ended up paying royalties. The royalties money is higher than you think. They pass the price onto you, the consumer, when you buy their products. So its transparent only in the way that you're paying more for goods for no good reason.
As far as stifling go, well, that's a tough one. Companies with the resources or just the chutpaz to brave the patent minefield tend to do well enough, but how many start-ups or products get aborted early on because of fears of patents? I'd think more than we know.
This guy will be kicking himself the rest of his days remembering telling Balmer "NO! 50 Million is not enough, we demand 250! Or we'll see you in court." So long patent abuser.
Even if MS paid them it would be a bit like dealing with kidnappers or blackmailers. The price could rise again when the contract is us.
>Addiction to MMOGs is not different than being addicted to TV, Books, or any other form of entertainment.
I disagree. None of those things follow the compulsive skinner-box model:
Work, work, then reward.
Work, work, work, then reward.
Work, work, work, work, then reward.
And so on.
Also those items are no social. People get their social fix by talking to people in their guilds. Its a nasty combination for some.
If youre counting .x releases of OS X, then Service Pack one and especially SP 2 certainly fall in the same category. Not to mention Service Pack 3 and 4 for the Win2k products. Not to mention the media and tablet editions. So you could add five or six more items to your list.
Frankly, it makes my life a lot easier now that people seem to be standardizing on XP. The longer vista takes, the better. Ironically, its when I have to support macs is when the headaches come in.
No, but the web has been doing it for ages.
Oh come on. Google his name. His name came up after they arrested another guy with a working suicide belt. This isnt a case of the slippery slope, this is how you bust terrorist cells.
>like most of these cheapies, have to be replaced yearly?
In my experience that's not true. First off, lots of potential PC gamers are pretty damn poor. Students, kids, etc. The onboard card doesnt cut it for a variety of reasons. Too laggy in "low," not enough video RAM, etc.
A midrange to low card can give these players enough power to run a lot of games at medium to high (at certain resolutions) for a long time coming. Even when it becomes the equivalant of a geforce2 today it still may beat the onboard GPU. For instance there's a gf2 on my work computer in case I want to fire up WoW when I have downtime. Sure it runs at 800x600, but it runs well enough where I can play an instance without horrible lag. The onboard card doesnt even do T&L.
So I don't buy the myth that even a low powered card isnt worth buying. They very much are worth buying when people refuse to pay 200 dollars for some component to play a 50 dollar game now and again. If anything the OEMs should be putting these things into PCs and laptops anyway as opposed to just sticking with the intel chipsets.
>You must have an optimistic view of the way our legal system works.
I have worked in the legal field and have more than a couple lawyer friends. I have a good idea what kind of effort this case would demand. You have slashdot defeatism. Good luck with that. It keeps people like Cory well-established and credible without putting his money where his mouth is.
Err...Right. Mail + spamfilter = bad. Mail + encryption = bad. Whatever you say.
There's a difference between needed features and bloat.
F'n finally? I get the outlook itch when I want some calendering done, and anweb browser extension or stand alone app just isnt cutting it. I need it intergrated into my email client when I'm actually, you know, emailing people about dates and events.
Typed Drawing
Word Mark SUPER HEROES
Goods and Services IC 016. US 002 005 022 023 029 037 038 050. G & S: PUBLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY COMIC BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND STORIES IN ILLUSTRATED FORM [(( ; CARDBOARD STAND-UP FIGURES; PLAYING CARDS; PAPER IRON-ON TRANSFER; ERASERS; PENCIL SHARPENERS; PENCILS; GLUE FOR OFFICE AND HOME USE, SUCH AS IS SOLD AS STATIONERY SUPPLY;] NOTEBOOKS AND STAMP ALBUMS )). FIRST USE: 19661000. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19661000
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Design Search Code
Serial Number 73222079
Filing Date July 3, 1979
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition June 9, 1981
Registration Number 1179067
Registration Date November 24, 1981
Owner (REGISTRANT) Cadence Industries Corporation a.k.a. Marvel Comics Group and DC Comics Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 575 Madison Ave. New York NEW YORK 10022
(LAST LISTED OWNER) DC COMICS PARTNERSHIP BY ASSIGNMENT NEW YORK 1700 BROADWAY NEW YORK NEW YORK 10019
(LAST LISTED OWNER) MARVEL CHARACTERS, INC. CORPORATION BY ASSIGNMENT DELAWARE 10474 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD SUITE 206 LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA 90025
Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
Attorney of Record JONATHAN D. REICHMAN
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR). SECTION 8(10-YR) 20020819.
Renewal 1ST RENEWAL 20020819
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Right. These C&D's have been going on from at least the 80s. I love how Cory likes to ignore this fact and assumes this is something new. As far as being 'our word' umm I don't think so. I don't like the ownership of words as its prone to abuse but this is pretty legal to me. The guy who owns the word stealth should be getting this attention and criticism. Seriously, if Cory thinks this is an illegal use of trademark and copyright why doesn't he sue Marvel and DC over it? I'm sure whatever money needed could easily be gathered from donations, but he seems to be happy just being the voice of "cool overopinioned download my book" web guy. Hell, I'd donate just to see if there was some validity here. It sure beats just bitching on a blog someplace. A lot of Doctorow's complaints really do need to be tried in court. The court of public opinion is getting him and his supporters nowhere.
Seriously, put it to the test. To win all Cory needs to prove is that most people associate the word superhero with characters outside of Marvel and DC. Prove the trademark is truly diluted and therefore must be revoked.
Not to mention there's a workaround here. Stop using the word superhero. Just stop. Many writers have abandoned it. I believe Alan Moore used "Science Heroes" in his Promethea series. It would be nice to see everyone abandon the word and let it become stale. Then the term superhero would be associated with dusty and irrelevant characters from the past. After a while fans will cringe upon seeing it. It would represent overlitigious nonsense and hackneyed stories of men in tights beating up muggers.
Yep. There's this assumption that any production team can break up for a while and then get right back into the groove they had years previous. Usuually that's just wrong. The latest example I can think of is the handful of new Aqua Teen episodes aired on the cartoon network a few months back. Just really unfunny and all that time off did affect the creative process. Or look at the severe decline in quality at the simpsons since real talent like Conan OBrien has left.
Of course this is the last thing fans want to hear. Hopefully, the futurama team will still be able to deliver the funny.
Cash grab? I dont know his motivations but these are real questions that need to be answered. The legality of google's cache was always in question. For instance a person could delete a webpage but still find it in the cache. That person can ask a valid question about copyright, control, republishing, etc, etc.
The courts so far have ruled that these caches are legal and the search engine people are not doing wrong. This suit along with another one builds precendce over these types of concerns. So its been a long time coming.
Now people concerned with privacy can get educated about how to block robots/spider, how public the web/usenet is, and how to work around this.
Exactly. The disruptive technology, (man Im sick of that phrase, its been coopted by the web2.0 crowd) is here, but the event that turns tech into a social or economic change is extremely difficult to predict. The story of the world wide web and the internet is usually quoted in these types of articles, but it wasnt until Mosaic/Netscape popularized the technology with pretty graphics and the promises of new content.
Every commonplace invention shares the similiar fate. Maybe with biotech it'll be the promise of longevity that'll get it rolling into the mainstream. Maybe with nanotech it'll be a self-replicating house cleaner, like how roomba is the most successful commercial robot. Who knows, but the tech certainly is here.
>And who cares about fictional "laws", anyway?
Geeks mostly. Its amusing to see fiction applied to real life, like it matters. We're talking military machines here. I wouldnt be surprised if an autonomous killing machine was in service within the next few years.
This is like talking about economic systems and saying 'But the communist manifesto says this!!!' The real world, as always, is more interesting and less idealistic than predictions or well intentioned publishings.
Exactly. The culture of cool rules here and its tough to get in. Look at the Sidekick, it a mediocre PDA-Phone but with rap stars and Paris Hilton paid to promote it, its suddenly the must have pda-phone for so many kids. Most of whom would have been happy with a plain-jane cell phone.
Your right, before the ipod, the other players like Archos were making big ugly boxes. But those players were very functional. Unfortunately, that meant 'geeky' and 'nerdy' to everyone else. Apple sexed up the product and now Joe Blow can get into this "mp3 thing I've been hearing about." Which is slightly ironic as most users buy DRM aac songs from Apple and probably don't have a single real mp3 on there.
>Perhaps the parent tried disabling his swapfile when he only had 128MB of RAM?
Nope, theres a long list of apps that wont work without a pagefile. MS advises against it too. I wouldnt suggest this without telling people that they will run into weird problems.
Do not turn off swap file. Windows will not remotely work right without one. You can knock it down to 512 or 256 megs if you life. Windows generally won't use it until you're out of memory. Generally.
/local settings/temp periodically. Defrag.
Other than the obvious suggested already, disk management is often overlooked. After you uninstall or install a game, defrag the drive. Applying a patch? Defrag. Changing the size of your swap file? Defrag.
Shut off indexing. Shut off any service you don't need or use.
Clean out
Reboot every 48 hours or so.
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How to configure Firefox to discard google's tracking cookie here.