Pushing this absurd patent is costing Amazon more in negative PR than the patent could possibly be worth.
Negative PR with who? The people that already feel questionably about Amazon? Because the truth is no one outside the Web world (that's us) cares, and we represent a very tiny part of Amazon's customer base, and most of us will keep on buying things from Amazon anyway (though I try to buy from Powells when I can).
My point is that hoping Amazon gets "embarrassed" about this isn't going to happen, and your statement simply isn't true.
I'm sorry, but if you think this is a straightforward task, you are making the same mistake Diebold did. Programming is just one minor part of the whole system they need to implement.
Yes, and it's this "one minor part" that Diebold fucked up. My original comment stands.
The truth is that while paperless may sound sexy it is not really practical.
The truth is that Diebold's problems have nothing to do with the paper or paperless issue, and everything to do with incompetent design and execution. Which is all the more galling considering the relative straight-forwardness of the programming task. A corrupt or inaccurate paper audit trail would be just as useful as no audit trail at all, and arguably more harmful.
It's a good thing Mark Felf was around, without "Deep Throat", the full extent of Nixon's crimes may never have come out.
Yet Felt was not strictly against "black bag jobs" like the Watergate break-in:
While Watergate was seething, Mr. Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground, a violent left-wing splinter group. The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes. The F.B.I. had no search warrants. He later said he ordered the break-ins because national security required it.
We will ask the ISPs to cooperate in sending C&D letters to people we identify...
ISPs are well know to *fold* at the slightest sign of a lawsuite, I expect the RIAA to have much better luck with this approach.
As to why the RIAA *has no shame* at all *and keeps on doing* things like this? No court has seriously slapped their hand, and it doesn't look like any will in the near future. So much for our court system protecting the innocent and keeping an eye on things.
The authorities rarely get involved because they're too difficult to catch and the dollar amounts aren't large enough.
$50K not high enough? Huh.
But anyway, given that it can't have cost the Canadian telecom anywhere *near* $50K, and it was clearly fraud, shouldn't they prorate this guys bill to *cost* or a little more? Demanding the full $50K is unfair.
I avoid any products made in China now because I can't trust them anymore. How much food is recalled and childrens toys? Do you want to be in an accident in one of these things and then find out that to cut costs, they used cheap air-bags?
Another reason to avoid Chinese goods (if their human rights record isn't good enough) is that their industry is ecologically harmful. Chinese industry have little incentive not to polute the environment in some of the most egregious ways.
Basically, make people hook up some wires to their penis, and when they get aroused while online, the Cyber Cops automatically log in and check out what you're looking at...
I for one thought the image was HOT. Be honest now, I'll bet more than half the guys here and maybe some of the females (well, that would be, what, 5 or 6?) think so too, but just don't want to get labled a perv.
Fact is, the USA and GB are dominated by prudes, and much of the rest of the world thinks we're crazy.
True, but let's imagine you have a car, a tank full of gas and are lost in the middle of some desert....
Full tank? Ask the guy at the station for directions.
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osCommerce is well know to be a bowl of spaghetti code and in general a P.O.S. Zen Cart forked a long time ago and did a complete code re-write. osCommerce continues to keep their heads up their asses, and only a fool doesn't look for alternatives at the earliest opertunity.
I think the jurry is still out on that one, after all, there are several RIAA cases pending that don't look good for the RIAA, and it looks like MediaSentry may be brought up on the unlicensed PI thing in several venues...
Because Asterisk is an Open Source project that will really hurt their ability to TAP communications.
If they wanted to use * to "tap communications", why would they reveal the bug? Anyway, maybe they tap in before it gets to the PBX, like at the phone company?
Just a bunch of merchants without a brick and mortar presence.
This may be so for common consumer crap. But there are still a lot of individuals selling stuff (like myself - collectable Indian pottery and Navajo rugs, collectable beads...).
On a different note, several posts here say (essentially) "Fuck eBay, more power to the bots". But I have to ask: Why is it OK to screw eBay for being Big Giant Cocks, while it's "unethical" to fight fire with fire when it comes to spammers?
What they are afraid of is the growing momentum against the RIAA at the university administration level. This is a weak and desperate attempt, a grasping at far away sticks by an arm who's body is quickly sinking below the quick sand surface.
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Pushing this absurd patent is costing Amazon more in negative PR than the patent could possibly be worth.
Negative PR with who? The people that already feel questionably about Amazon? Because the truth is no one outside the Web world (that's us) cares, and we represent a very tiny part of Amazon's customer base, and most of us will keep on buying things from Amazon anyway (though I try to buy from Powells when I can).
My point is that hoping Amazon gets "embarrassed" about this isn't going to happen, and your statement simply isn't true.
I mean, I love the idea behind it. But isn't there regulation on doing this type of research?
Do you think that DIY genetic engineering will be more harmful than that which is conducted for profit by companies that care only for making money?
I'm sorry, but if you think this is a straightforward task, you are making the same mistake Diebold did. Programming is just one minor part of the whole system they need to implement.
Yes, and it's this "one minor part" that Diebold fucked up. My original comment stands.
The truth is that while paperless may sound sexy it is not really practical.
The truth is that Diebold's problems have nothing to do with the paper or paperless issue, and everything to do with incompetent design and execution. Which is all the more galling considering the relative straight-forwardness of the programming task. A corrupt or inaccurate paper audit trail would be just as useful as no audit trail at all, and arguably more harmful.
Yet Felt was not strictly against "black bag jobs" like the Watergate break-in:
While Watergate was seething, Mr. Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground, a violent left-wing splinter group. The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes. The F.B.I. had no search warrants. He later said he ordered the break-ins because national security required it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/washington/19felt.html?scp=1&sq=mark%20felt&st=cse
We will ask the ISPs to cooperate in sending C&D letters to people we identify...
ISPs are well know to *fold* at the slightest sign of a lawsuite, I expect the RIAA to have much better luck with this approach.
As to why the RIAA *has no shame* at all *and keeps on doing* things like this? No court has seriously slapped their hand, and it doesn't look like any will in the near future. So much for our court system protecting the innocent and keeping an eye on things.
The authorities rarely get involved because they're too difficult to catch and the dollar amounts aren't large enough.
$50K not high enough? Huh.
But anyway, given that it can't have cost the Canadian telecom anywhere *near* $50K, and it was clearly fraud, shouldn't they prorate this guys bill to *cost* or a little more? Demanding the full $50K is unfair.
Corps won't change either, cause their most computer-illiterate users happens to be their CIO and his/her underlings.
Many "corps" will not switch because they have internal applications that require IE for some reason (ActiveX...)
I avoid any products made in China now because I can't trust them anymore. How much food is recalled and childrens toys? Do you want to be in an accident in one of these things and then find out that to cut costs, they used cheap air-bags?
Another reason to avoid Chinese goods (if their human rights record isn't good enough) is that their industry is ecologically harmful. Chinese industry have little incentive not to polute the environment in some of the most egregious ways.
Basically, make people hook up some wires to their penis, and when they get aroused while online, the Cyber Cops automatically log in and check out what you're looking at...
No no, it's the male partner who has tentacles in Japanese porn.
I don't see why you needed an alternative. Just backup your essential files, format your harddrive, re-install Windows, and bam! You're done.
And spend a few hours reinstalling all the other applications you had installed?
I for one thought the image was HOT. Be honest now, I'll bet more than half the guys here and maybe some of the females (well, that would be, what, 5 or 6?) think so too, but just don't want to get labled a perv.
Fact is, the USA and GB are dominated by prudes, and much of the rest of the world thinks we're crazy.
True, but let's imagine you have a car, a tank full of gas and are lost in the middle of some desert....
Full tank? Ask the guy at the station for directions.
osCommerce is well know to be a bowl of spaghetti code and in general a P.O.S. Zen Cart forked a long time ago and did a complete code re-write. osCommerce continues to keep their heads up their asses, and only a fool doesn't look for alternatives at the earliest opertunity.
I was prosecuted for putting my balls (just my balls) online when I was 16. Fifth degree felony of pandering obscenity.
When the overzealous prosecutor actually got to court, the judge dismissed the case because it was clearly ridiculous.
There are non-prescription "enhancement" products that can help you with that personal problem.
The war on drugs makes a lot of money for a lot people on both sides of the law.
Indeed it does. Here's an interesting Web site...
www.NoJailForPot.com
Yep, it's all just a ploy to get us all to update to Firefox 3.0
I don't know why the parent is modded "flamebait", it's pretty obvious this is what Mozilla (Google) is doing.
Ray, I want to be clear and say I wasn't trying to dish you shit, you do a great service for freedom and common sense...
Could someone please introduce Ray Beckerman to a decent CMS and donate some design work so his site doesn't hurt the eyes?
Legally sanctioned oppression.
I think the jurry is still out on that one, after all, there are several RIAA cases pending that don't look good for the RIAA, and it looks like MediaSentry may be brought up on the unlicensed PI thing in several venues...
Because Asterisk is an Open Source project that will really hurt their ability to TAP communications.
If they wanted to use * to "tap communications", why would they reveal the bug? Anyway, maybe they tap in before it gets to the PBX, like at the phone company?
Just a bunch of merchants without a brick and mortar presence.
This may be so for common consumer crap. But there are still a lot of individuals selling stuff (like myself - collectable Indian pottery and Navajo rugs, collectable beads...).
On a different note, several posts here say (essentially) "Fuck eBay, more power to the bots". But I have to ask: Why is it OK to screw eBay for being Big Giant Cocks, while it's "unethical" to fight fire with fire when it comes to spammers?
The US Census Bureau charges to access much of their datasets.
What they are afraid of is the growing momentum against the RIAA at the university administration level. This is a weak and desperate attempt, a grasping at far away sticks by an arm who's body is quickly sinking below the quick sand surface.