Re:Yep, if it doesn't work under lynx, it's broken
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Umm, all of the ADA lawsuit threats against web pages have amounted to hot air. DOJ won't even take your complaint. There is only speculation that it may even apply, under the vague parallel that a web page is a 'commercial service' for public offering. This assumtion is prolly bogus based on the fact that webpages in general do not charge for their services.
So far as telecom in general goes, the ADA only applies to common carriers, such as your ISP and telco. (This was the basis for the suit against AOL).
Perhaps you are confusing it with Section 508 of the Workforce Investment Act, which does mandate that all web pages have to be accessable to the blind, but which only applies to the Federal government.
I have an in-box pre-ordered PC (when I bought it the tape hadn't even been removed), complete with the manuals, disks, and little advertising plugs for upcoming software. One of them is a little black on light blue order form so you can order DisplayWrite when it becomes available. I think the date quoted was April or May, but I'm not really sure.
Oh, an interesting note; On the invoice, MSDOS cost a grand total of $41.59, CP/M was nearly $300. Adjust that for inflation!!
The domains are getting closer together; Remember, eToys "has also filed a trademark application on "ETOYS" in the context of providing "interactive and arcade games via a global computer network." Get thee to etoy.com. Look around. That could be called 'interactive', especially by a weenie lawyer.
If its granted, it'll only be a matter of time before whoever buys the TM from eToys during the bankruptcy goes after them again. I'd say this is a 'Spank em before they spank you'
`Sides, when you have been wronged and the law entitles you to revenge, not damages, you use it.
Here's an idea, why don't you take all that money you're making and buy a Porsche only gas station, and see how long you stay in business.
Never know. There's a Porsche-only parts place up the road, and they've been doing business for twenty odd years. Same goes for the GM-only junkyard across the street, the Triumph-only junkyard down in Ohio, the fellow in Nevada that rebuilds Opel transmissions exclusivly, etc.
Or perhaps a better case, the fellow out by my buddies place that only sells three varieties of gasoline; 96 octane leaded, 102 octane leaded, and 110 octane leaded. Cars that'll take that stuff are fewer and farther apart then Porsche! I saw four Porsche this morning, and (save mine), I saw NO cars capable of being run non-destructivly on 110 leaded.
Sure, it is kind of nice that in that case the creator is still making money off his work, but what bothers me is so long as the copyright owner can maintain scarcity of originals, the copyright never ends! 1987? That's forty years too recent for my taste, considering the shows were done in 1959-1963, if memory serves.
What good is the expiration of 'It's a Wonderful Life' if the expiration only applies to one film copy locked in the studio vault, and none of the successive copies?
Did you read the articles? It's not Linux zealotry that was giving them trouble; It was the infighting between the zealot factions of *BSD.
Visit the article; Look at the list of 'opinionated misinformation/slamming' Tucows is accused of. Of the seven examples, only one would actually raise an eyebrow as untrue. The BSD externals ARE virtually the same as they were three years ago, the FreeBSD IRC channels ARE a bit elitist, OpenBSD IS hard to install, even for those familiar with other variants of *nix, etc..
The BSD zealots didn't like being judged by people from the Linux and Windows camps. That's all there is to it.
(Please note; I have run everything from Xenix to Tru/64 to Solaris, through half a dozen BSD variants and Linux.)
He bought the right, from the galleries, to photograph the paintings. He also bought the exclusive right to all future conversions of those photographs or future photographs into a digital image for public display. The gallery owns the paintings, and controls what can and cannot be done with them.
On the other hand, if I have copyright on an older photograph of the painting, I can digitize it at will. I hold copyright on that particular image, and not even Billy Boy can bitch at me.
Sigh. Yes, I suppose the Mona Lisa is no longer covered by copyright. Unfortunatly, unless you manage to purchase Miss Mona and slap her down on a Xerox, the fact there is no copyright is really meaningless. If someone photographs or copies the Mona Lisa (which I understand is hard to do; No flash, dim lighting) copyright starts all over again.
Same goes for TV music. Say I want to sample a 1920's ragtime for a bit of house. I go out to the store, buy a copy of 'Greastest Ragtime Hits of 1921' on CD. But alas! The copyright date is 1999! Why? Somewhere along the line, an owner of the original recording did a little tweaking to it, say he transferred it from Edison Pressed Celluloid to magnetic tape, and copyright started all over. He sold the rights to his recording to someone else, who ran it through a series of filters to make it sound more lifelike, and copyright started all over again. They do the same thing with TV; Check out the copyright line on, say Rocky and Bullwinkle. It runs late at night on Cartoon Network. That's right, boys and girls, it says "Copyright 1987 Jay Ward Productions"
Look at the OSDL page. Whaddya see? A bunch of names of companies that sell hardware and write code, all interested in getting Linux on their bigger and badder 'Enterprise systems'.
What they're doing is giving access to these test systems.. The two 'initial projects' are simply projects someone approached them about doing, th which they said "Cool! Here's a login on a couple sixteen way SMP machines. Go for it!"
Dude, yet another slip and fall loser lawfirm 'announcing' they're trying to organize yet another money grubbing lawsuit is not news, just like the five other loser firms that 'announced' the same the day before.
I dare say most of them don't actually have any clients, hell 90% of them are still looking for 'lead defendant' (IE, at this point they're announcing they'd like to sue, on behalf of no one.) The most recent loser law firm to troll the waters not only didn't have a client, they didn't even have a company in mind to sue, so they listed the last four IPO's Deutsche Bank handled.
One, mabye two of these suits will actually be filed. Mabye one will actually make it to opening arguments. This shit happens all the time in business, or have you been too busy trolling Slashdot with CmdrAnus remarks to notice?
I'm sorry, but I haven't gotten far enough down my 'Things to Do Before I Die' checklist to hit 'contemplating the facial expressions of fictional aliens' yet.
It's Item # 4,203, and I'm still working on # 6, 'meaningful relationship'..
That's a line we'll cross when we get to it. Judging from the big budget CG I've seen recently it'll be a while.. They spend $40 million on CG effects and still end up with a plasticene Jar-Jar (Gumby had mre beleivable facial expressions!) that wouldn't look realistic drunk AND on acid, for crying out loud..
As of RIGHT NOW, the illegal part of kiddie porn is the exploitation and abuse of children. I can simulate a murder on film right now, complete with plunging knife, squirting blood, dismemberment, etc, and for all intents and purposes it is indistinguishable from the real thing. Does that make me guilty of murder? Nope. No murder, no crime.
Same thing with simulated 'kiddie porn'; No child, no crime.
We've seen the SC play politics, and this will be no exception. They'll uphold the ruling, sure, but by a margin of only one vote. The dissenting justices will use the opportunity to hop up on a soapbox and please their political masters, with a tear-jerking "child pornography is evil" spiel that'll get coverage on the news networks..
Hmmm.. Mabye you have something, well, aside from the conclusion you need a real file system. He's using an 8-bit microcontroller, and implementing ISO9660 is going to be a pain in the ass. It's a project, not 'production' so the setup time isn't a worry either..
I say just write the raw concantenated image to the CD, along with a list of file positions. Hell, just write them in raw mode sans list and play them sequentially, tossing in last/next track buttons is easy. The project is hard enough as is..
Nope. The best HP will guarantee with Win2K on a single server is 99.9, with a 24-hour on-site tech. That's THREE nines, not five. They will also be happy to sell you a Win2K HA cluster, but there again they will only guarantee you 99.99, once again with a 24-hour on-site tech. That's FOUR nines, not five.
HP does sell a couple systems that claim five, but they're MPE/IX and don't exactly fit what one would call a 'single' system.
Keep in mind, nothing (single system) based on the PC arch can claim five nines. As we move out of the PC realm to DEC/Compaq, SGI and Sun, well they can't do it in a single 'system' either. (although the issue is foggy on what a single system entails as you move up the product offerings, and they do come close) I think Sequent used to claim five nines for a few products, but then again they weren't *exactly* single systems.
In fact, the only current, conventionally single, 'system' I can think of that can claim five nines is the S/390.
fsck has been around in that usage for a while, just like the older pr0n/pron and a myriad of other mutations. Back in the day, certain message boards, chat forums and online services refused to pass words of the sort, sort of a lameness filter for the seven dirty words. AOL, Compuserve, Merit, (The Well?), etc, all tried variations on the theme. So porn became pr0n, fucks became fux, sex became s3x, reducio ad absurdum. In the same spirit, `nix geeks picked up fuck == fsck.
So just deal.
Yeah.. Bullshit would make a perfect addition to the moderation options, for those cases where it's not clear they're trolling but whatever came off their fingertips sure ain't grounded in reality. (See the article on California power outages, and look for any mention of solar power/nuclear power) It wouldn't have to actually subtract a point from the post, only the moderator.
Another interesting one would be 'Brilliant/Genious'; Require a moderator spend all his moderator points at once to give the post +3, Genious.
I'm with you on this one. They've been pretty good about reporting what is news, independant of their affiliation of MS. If CNN is running a ten second blurb on it, you'd be safe to bet MSNBC blew it up into a thirty second spot, complete with commentary and rebuttal.
On the other hand, it's still a third rate news network, and I'd rather watch CNN or Fox News over them pretty much anyday..
You'd be surprised.. Back as recently as the 90's, one of my local departments worked that way. If they seized a stolen bike they couldn't easily find owner for, the bike went home with the officer with the kid who needed one. Caught some high school kids with a 12 pack of Budweiser? Your fridge is stocked! Small amount of pot you're not going to charge over? Hmm, I wonder..
In their defense, they barely had the resources to keep two cars and a dispatcher going at a time, let alone hire the personel or space to inventory, store and sell the stuff, so I suppose it worked out for the underpaid cops.
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Umm, all of the ADA lawsuit threats against web pages have amounted to hot air. DOJ won't even take your complaint. There is only speculation that it may even apply, under the vague parallel that a web page is a 'commercial service' for public offering. This assumtion is prolly bogus based on the fact that webpages in general do not charge for their services.
So far as telecom in general goes, the ADA only applies to common carriers, such as your ISP and telco. (This was the basis for the suit against AOL).
Perhaps you are confusing it with Section 508 of the Workforce Investment Act, which does mandate that all web pages have to be accessable to the blind, but which only applies to the Federal government.
I have an in-box pre-ordered PC (when I bought it the tape hadn't even been removed), complete with the manuals, disks, and little advertising plugs for upcoming software. One of them is a little black on light blue order form so you can order DisplayWrite when it becomes available. I think the date quoted was April or May, but I'm not really sure. Oh, an interesting note; On the invoice, MSDOS cost a grand total of $41.59, CP/M was nearly $300. Adjust that for inflation!!
[Sung to the tune of 'Always a woman to me' by Billy Joel.]
The domains are getting closer together; Remember, eToys "has also filed a trademark application on "ETOYS" in the context of providing "interactive and arcade games via a global computer network." Get thee to etoy.com. Look around. That could be called 'interactive', especially by a weenie lawyer.
If its granted, it'll only be a matter of time before whoever buys the TM from eToys during the bankruptcy goes after them again. I'd say this is a 'Spank em before they spank you'
`Sides, when you have been wronged and the law entitles you to revenge, not damages, you use it.
[clears his throat]
I pity, I say I pity da fool than don't like the A-Team. You're crazier than Murdoch, fool. Now get out my face.
Thank you.
Here's an idea, why don't you take all that money you're making and buy a Porsche only gas station, and see how long you stay in business.
Never know. There's a Porsche-only parts place up the road, and they've been doing business for twenty odd years. Same goes for the GM-only junkyard across the street, the Triumph-only junkyard down in Ohio, the fellow in Nevada that rebuilds Opel transmissions exclusivly, etc.
Or perhaps a better case, the fellow out by my buddies place that only sells three varieties of gasoline; 96 octane leaded, 102 octane leaded, and 110 octane leaded. Cars that'll take that stuff are fewer and farther apart then Porsche! I saw four Porsche this morning, and (save mine), I saw NO cars capable of being run non-destructivly on 110 leaded.
Sure, it is kind of nice that in that case the creator is still making money off his work, but what bothers me is so long as the copyright owner can maintain scarcity of originals, the copyright never ends! 1987? That's forty years too recent for my taste, considering the shows were done in 1959-1963, if memory serves.
What good is the expiration of 'It's a Wonderful Life' if the expiration only applies to one film copy locked in the studio vault, and none of the successive copies?
Did you read the articles? It's not Linux zealotry that was giving them trouble; It was the infighting between the zealot factions of *BSD.
Visit the article; Look at the list of 'opinionated misinformation/slamming' Tucows is accused of. Of the seven examples, only one would actually raise an eyebrow as untrue. The BSD externals ARE virtually the same as they were three years ago, the FreeBSD IRC channels ARE a bit elitist, OpenBSD IS hard to install, even for those familiar with other variants of *nix, etc..
The BSD zealots didn't like being judged by people from the Linux and Windows camps. That's all there is to it.
(Please note; I have run everything from Xenix to Tru/64 to Solaris, through half a dozen BSD variants and Linux.)
He bought the right, from the galleries, to photograph the paintings. He also bought the exclusive right to all future conversions of those photographs or future photographs into a digital image for public display. The gallery owns the paintings, and controls what can and cannot be done with them.
On the other hand, if I have copyright on an older photograph of the painting, I can digitize it at will. I hold copyright on that particular image, and not even Billy Boy can bitch at me.
Sigh. Yes, I suppose the Mona Lisa is no longer covered by copyright. Unfortunatly, unless you manage to purchase Miss Mona and slap her down on a Xerox, the fact there is no copyright is really meaningless. If someone photographs or copies the Mona Lisa (which I understand is hard to do; No flash, dim lighting) copyright starts all over again.
Same goes for TV music. Say I want to sample a 1920's ragtime for a bit of house. I go out to the store, buy a copy of 'Greastest Ragtime Hits of 1921' on CD. But alas! The copyright date is 1999! Why? Somewhere along the line, an owner of the original recording did a little tweaking to it, say he transferred it from Edison Pressed Celluloid to magnetic tape, and copyright started all over. He sold the rights to his recording to someone else, who ran it through a series of filters to make it sound more lifelike, and copyright started all over again. They do the same thing with TV; Check out the copyright line on, say Rocky and Bullwinkle. It runs late at night on Cartoon Network. That's right, boys and girls, it says "Copyright 1987 Jay Ward Productions"
AI-nonymous Coward? What, joke too subtle?
Look at the OSDL page. Whaddya see? A bunch of names of companies that sell hardware and write code, all interested in getting Linux on their bigger and badder 'Enterprise systems'.
What they're doing is giving access to these test systems.. The two 'initial projects' are simply projects someone approached them about doing, th which they said "Cool! Here's a login on a couple sixteen way SMP machines. Go for it!"
Dude, yet another slip and fall loser lawfirm 'announcing' they're trying to organize yet another money grubbing lawsuit is not news, just like the five other loser firms that 'announced' the same the day before.
I dare say most of them don't actually have any clients, hell 90% of them are still looking for 'lead defendant' (IE, at this point they're announcing they'd like to sue, on behalf of no one.) The most recent loser law firm to troll the waters not only didn't have a client, they didn't even have a company in mind to sue, so they listed the last four IPO's Deutsche Bank handled.
One, mabye two of these suits will actually be filed. Mabye one will actually make it to opening arguments. This shit happens all the time in business, or have you been too busy trolling Slashdot with CmdrAnus remarks to notice?
I'm sorry, but I haven't gotten far enough down my 'Things to Do Before I Die' checklist to hit 'contemplating the facial expressions of fictional aliens' yet.
It's Item # 4,203, and I'm still working on # 6, 'meaningful relationship'..
That's a line we'll cross when we get to it. Judging from the big budget CG I've seen recently it'll be a while.. They spend $40 million on CG effects and still end up with a plasticene Jar-Jar (Gumby had mre beleivable facial expressions!) that wouldn't look realistic drunk AND on acid, for crying out loud..
As of RIGHT NOW, the illegal part of kiddie porn is the exploitation and abuse of children. I can simulate a murder on film right now, complete with plunging knife, squirting blood, dismemberment, etc, and for all intents and purposes it is indistinguishable from the real thing. Does that make me guilty of murder? Nope. No murder, no crime.
Same thing with simulated 'kiddie porn'; No child, no crime.
Unanimously? No..
We've seen the SC play politics, and this will be no exception. They'll uphold the ruling, sure, but by a margin of only one vote. The dissenting justices will use the opportunity to hop up on a soapbox and please their political masters, with a tear-jerking "child pornography is evil" spiel that'll get coverage on the news networks..
Hmmm.. Mabye you have something, well, aside from the conclusion you need a real file system. He's using an 8-bit microcontroller, and implementing ISO9660 is going to be a pain in the ass. It's a project, not 'production' so the setup time isn't a worry either..
I say just write the raw concantenated image to the CD, along with a list of file positions. Hell, just write them in raw mode sans list and play them sequentially, tossing in last/next track buttons is easy. The project is hard enough as is..
Nope. The best HP will guarantee with Win2K on a single server is 99.9, with a 24-hour on-site tech. That's THREE nines, not five. They will also be happy to sell you a Win2K HA cluster, but there again they will only guarantee you 99.99, once again with a 24-hour on-site tech. That's FOUR nines, not five. HP does sell a couple systems that claim five, but they're MPE/IX and don't exactly fit what one would call a 'single' system.
Keep in mind, nothing (single system) based on the PC arch can claim five nines. As we move out of the PC realm to DEC/Compaq, SGI and Sun, well they can't do it in a single 'system' either. (although the issue is foggy on what a single system entails as you move up the product offerings, and they do come close) I think Sequent used to claim five nines for a few products, but then again they weren't *exactly* single systems.
In fact, the only current, conventionally single, 'system' I can think of that can claim five nines is the S/390.
And it runs Linux.
VA Linux.. They're 90% 'standard' hardware. (In some cases the mobo isn't exactly what you'd see on the component market)
Oh, and Compaq usually says 3-5 business days, unless you have one of the 'hella support' contracts.
fsck has been around in that usage for a while, just like the older pr0n/pron and a myriad of other mutations. Back in the day, certain message boards, chat forums and online services refused to pass words of the sort, sort of a lameness filter for the seven dirty words. AOL, Compuserve, Merit, (The Well?), etc, all tried variations on the theme. So porn became pr0n, fucks became fux, sex became s3x, reducio ad absurdum. In the same spirit, `nix geeks picked up fuck == fsck. So just deal.
Yeah.. Bullshit would make a perfect addition to the moderation options, for those cases where it's not clear they're trolling but whatever came off their fingertips sure ain't grounded in reality. (See the article on California power outages, and look for any mention of solar power/nuclear power) It wouldn't have to actually subtract a point from the post, only the moderator. Another interesting one would be 'Brilliant/Genious'; Require a moderator spend all his moderator points at once to give the post +3, Genious.
I'm with you on this one. They've been pretty good about reporting what is news, independant of their affiliation of MS. If CNN is running a ten second blurb on it, you'd be safe to bet MSNBC blew it up into a thirty second spot, complete with commentary and rebuttal.
On the other hand, it's still a third rate news network, and I'd rather watch CNN or Fox News over them pretty much anyday..
You'd be surprised.. Back as recently as the 90's, one of my local departments worked that way. If they seized a stolen bike they couldn't easily find owner for, the bike went home with the officer with the kid who needed one. Caught some high school kids with a 12 pack of Budweiser? Your fridge is stocked! Small amount of pot you're not going to charge over? Hmm, I wonder.. In their defense, they barely had the resources to keep two cars and a dispatcher going at a time, let alone hire the personel or space to inventory, store and sell the stuff, so I suppose it worked out for the underpaid cops.
5) The Stinger missile would have to work.