That's your typical patent in the IT world these days. Amazon one-click: "hey everyone, let's store credit card numbers and make it effortless for people to buy things.. we won't even make them enter a password!" An idea so brain dead that they even stopped doing it.
To be fair, they stopped everyone else doing it too.
Yes, you may think that you're way above average as a driver, and you'd _never_ possibly cause an accident. Guess what? So does everyone else. Over 90% of the people think that their driving is above average. It's mathematically impossible.
Not if the other ten percent are really, really bad.
I think a big part of the problem is that smokers don't realise how smelly and incredibly offensive cigarette smoke actually is. I know in my case if I get a whiff it seems to dull my olfactory senses markedly for several hours, so everything smells like smoke. It can really destroy a nice walk through a public park with all the fragrance of the garden.
I've always thought it might be the same for smokers. They simply don't know what they're missing, and what they're depriving others of.
Funnily enough, the only thing that seems to get through is a good juicy fart. Maybe your solution has some merit, although I can't say I'm volunteering.
So, whether by gifting or abandonmnent, ownership of the CD was legally transferred in a manner equivalent to a sale, and any sticker on it is insufficient to prevent the doctrine of first sale from taking effect.
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PS, by reading this post you agree to... We've all seen comments like this in regard to EULAs and such; those stickers are no less ridiculous, and no more legally binding.
Heh, the only thing those stickers have to do with the doctrine of first sale is the fact that they are also covered. The CD recipients now own the stickers too, and can do with them anything they jolly well want to, with the possible exception of copying them.
They could be nice to UMG. They could bundle those stickers up, send them back and get shirty when they end up in the bin.
If you look, well you don't even have to read it, just look at the 20 questions PDF the author of the article put out with the book, you will see the Ozone is naturally depleted by air currents and storm activities. This produces a hole around the poles which isn't replenished sufficiently (fast enough) because the sun's ultraviolet radiation has to travel through the atmosphere at an angle at the reach the poles. This angle is different during different seasons which causes the hole to shrink and expand. Now man made chemicals, the CFCs are thought to make this worse but doesn't cause it to happen. Something else is that we didn't have problems with ground level Ozones until we banned CFCs. I'm not saying that we should bring back CFCs but they didn't cause the whole.
True, we didn't cause the hole, but I think we did a fair bit to make it what it became. A bit like the goatse guy really. He didn't make the hole, but, well, you get the picture.
The Australian Labor Government, shortly after being elected, decided that the impossible task of making the internet pre-school safe was a better solution.
I hear this, and I've also heard all of Steven Conroy's announcements, but the TFA seems to suggest this has been in the pipeline an awful lot longer. Tenders for companies to provide the filtering system closed in July last year, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority waited until after the election to announce the successful bid.
I suspect that Helen Coonan would have had a similar announcement to make if the Coalition got up.
A few days ago I was at Rivers, a clothing store here in.au. The terminal at the checkout proudly and in huge type displayed the name of the presumably custom checkout software: RiversPOS.
I thought it was a bit odd, given their reputation for quality merchandise.
Provide an opt-out mechanism (as adults with no children won't stand for it)
Even better, make it opt in. A lot of the rhetoric surrounding this scheme has suggested that anyone opting out of it must want to look at child porn (see, for example, this Slashdot thread and the associated links. I don't want my access filtered, but I don't want to humbly ask my overlords for permission to turn the filter off, either.
People argue that there are legitimate uses but most of it seems to be sharing copyrighted material. Then there's others that are claiming fair use but that's murky too because fair use was never meant to be a dodge for getting around paying for materials. Then you have people that flat out don't want to pay for anything and why should they if they can download it for free?
Umm, this might sound like a nitpick, but you forgot another not insignificant category --- legally sharing copyrighted material. Think Free software, CC licensed audio and video, etc. I download several GB every month, and I'm sure I'm not alone. People do produce things for reasons
other than just money.
I suspect you also had a debate in elementary school about whether or not we should learn to use punctuation and grammar correctly. You started on the affirmative, but the other side made such a good case you jumped sides.
And you wonder why you can't keep a job for under $10 an hour.
I worked for a while in a small factory that manufactured a few different items. Every step of every job was thoroughly documented, and every workstation (i.e. point in the production line) had a poster on the wall explaining in ludicrous detail exactly how to do the job.
The stupid thing was that they were hard to follow. They had been written in consultation with employees, and at the time everyone agreed they were accurate. The problem was that most of the jobs could be picked up much, much quicker if you had someone showing you. Once you picked up a task you didn't need to look at the instructions.
On the other hand, our employer saw value in making sure all the employees could do most of the jobs in the factory. When I left there were no jobs I couldn't do that didn't require a trade qualification. I wasn't the only one.
Here's how it played: for ISO accreditation we were required to document everything we did. Apparently it guaranteed quality. The owner of the business found more value in making sure employees knew what they were doing, and getting them to do it. We could tell if somebody was deviating from the process because our products wouldn't pass the test suite.
The employer wasn't too worried about buses either. I remember one month about half the staff were away sick, on leave or pregnant. The employer put on a few temporary staff, but on the whole we were more than able to cope with just a few hours overtime a week. There was no appreciable decline in our productivity during that month, and I remember him joking that he could fire half of us and still make his money.
I'm glad he was joking. Apart from the money it was the best job I ever had.
Funnily enough, it wasn't that long ago the number one result for a search on 'http' would be the Microsoft site. I wondered what the deal was there.
I found this out when I mis-entered a URL into Firefox. At the time FF would do a Google 'I feel lucky' search on any misformed URL --- presumably in the hope that it'd find what you are after anyway. Now if you stuff up the '://' after the protocol name the search would be on the protocol. That's what I did... and I ended up at the Microsoft site.
The funniest thing about it was the URL I had tried to enter was 'http://fsf.org'. I'm still cleaning the coffee off the screen.
Just for the record, FF has changed its behaviour now: it seems to go to the Google page for that search instead. Of course, that may be a config thing too. Also, the MS site now comes in at 31 for a search on 'http'.
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I like the new interface, but I don't like that I had to teach my fingers new shortcuts. Consistency is a good thing, especially with muscle memory...
Heh. I usually use Emacs. The standard keybinding to save the file[1] you're working on is Ctrl-x Ctrl-s. When using Word, OOo or such that cuts the selection and then saves. It's not always a problem (it's nothing I can't undo) but I have been known to have entire documents highlighted, cut, saved and closed before I realise what I've done.
[1] Translation for Emacs purists: 'The standard keybinding to write the buffer you're working on to its file is C-x C-s. When using Word, OOo or such that kills the region and then writes the buffer.' Hopefully you can figure out the rest.
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Who said women couldn't code?
To be fair, they stopped everyone else doing it too.
Not if the other ten percent are really, really bad.
When did the Brits pass the Patriot Act? I know America's running the country, but the Poms at least like to think they run it themselves.
I think a big part of the problem is that smokers don't realise how smelly and incredibly offensive cigarette smoke actually is. I know in my case if I get a whiff it seems to dull my olfactory senses markedly for several hours, so everything smells like smoke. It can really destroy a nice walk through a public park with all the fragrance of the garden.
I've always thought it might be the same for smokers. They simply don't know what they're missing, and what they're depriving others of.
Funnily enough, the only thing that seems to get through is a good juicy fart. Maybe your solution has some merit, although I can't say I'm volunteering.
Nice articles. Got any from, you know, this century?
So, whether by gifting or abandonmnent, ownership of the CD was legally transferred in a manner equivalent to a sale, and any sticker on it is insufficient to prevent the doctrine of first sale from taking effect.
...
PS, by reading this post you agree to... We've all seen comments like this in regard to EULAs and such; those stickers are no less ridiculous, and no more legally binding.
Heh, the only thing those stickers have to do with the doctrine of first sale is the fact that they are also covered. The CD recipients now own the stickers too, and can do with them anything they jolly well want to, with the possible exception of copying them.
They could be nice to UMG. They could bundle those stickers up, send them back and get shirty when they end up in the bin.
Ah, so dingoes were imported by the Irish. They could have kept the snakes.
True, we didn't cause the hole, but I think we did a fair bit to make it what it became. A bit like the goatse guy really. He didn't make the hole, but, well, you get the picture.
I hear this, and I've also heard all of Steven Conroy's announcements, but the TFA seems to suggest this has been in the pipeline an awful lot longer. Tenders for companies to provide the filtering system closed in July last year, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority waited until after the election to announce the successful bid.
I suspect that Helen Coonan would have had a similar announcement to make if the Coalition got up.
Ron Paul, is that you?
A few days ago I was at Rivers, a clothing store here in .au. The terminal at the checkout proudly and in huge type displayed the name of the presumably custom checkout software: RiversPOS.
I thought it was a bit odd, given their reputation for quality merchandise.
Good points, all.
One of the bizarre things about the Australian system is that informal voting is quite legal, but inciting people to vote informally is not.
I can tell you it's okay, but if I tell you to vote that way I could end up in trouble. Check out Albert Langer's story for an example.
I think you mean 'obligation.'
The participation rate is usually >99% of enrolled votersActually, it's around about 94%. See my post for more info.
Even better, make it opt in. A lot of the rhetoric surrounding this scheme has suggested that anyone opting out of it must want to look at child porn (see, for example, this Slashdot thread and the associated links. I don't want my access filtered, but I don't want to humbly ask my overlords for permission to turn the filter off, either.
Umm, this might sound like a nitpick, but you forgot another not insignificant category --- legally sharing copyrighted material. Think Free software, CC licensed audio and video, etc. I download several GB every month, and I'm sure I'm not alone. People do produce things for reasons other than just money.
Just sayin' s'all...
I suspect you also had a debate in elementary school about whether or not we should learn to use punctuation and grammar correctly. You started on the affirmative, but the other side made such a good case you jumped sides.
And you wonder why you can't keep a job for under $10 an hour.
No. You should never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice.
Wow, I just saw your sig.
/.? I come here to escape, dammit!
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Moreover, the word 'Koori' in the languages around South Australia apparently sounds very similar to the word for 'vagina.'
It also turns out that calling someone a 'black cunt' is considered offensive in most languages around here. So only use 'Koori' if you know you can.
Pardon me for asking, but if you're not a primate, what are you?
That has to be one of the most esoteric references I've ever come across here, and I've been coming a while.
And it's going to take me a while to get it out of my head now!
I agree.
I worked for a while in a small factory that manufactured a few different items. Every step of every job was thoroughly documented, and every workstation (i.e. point in the production line) had a poster on the wall explaining in ludicrous detail exactly how to do the job.
The stupid thing was that they were hard to follow. They had been written in consultation with employees, and at the time everyone agreed they were accurate. The problem was that most of the jobs could be picked up much, much quicker if you had someone showing you. Once you picked up a task you didn't need to look at the instructions.
On the other hand, our employer saw value in making sure all the employees could do most of the jobs in the factory. When I left there were no jobs I couldn't do that didn't require a trade qualification. I wasn't the only one.
Here's how it played: for ISO accreditation we were required to document everything we did. Apparently it guaranteed quality. The owner of the business found more value in making sure employees knew what they were doing, and getting them to do it. We could tell if somebody was deviating from the process because our products wouldn't pass the test suite.
The employer wasn't too worried about buses either. I remember one month about half the staff were away sick, on leave or pregnant. The employer put on a few temporary staff, but on the whole we were more than able to cope with just a few hours overtime a week. There was no appreciable decline in our productivity during that month, and I remember him joking that he could fire half of us and still make his money.
I'm glad he was joking. Apart from the money it was the best job I ever had.
Funnily enough, it wasn't that long ago the number one result for a search on 'http' would be the Microsoft site. I wondered what the deal was there.
I found this out when I mis-entered a URL into Firefox. At the time FF would do a Google 'I feel lucky' search on any misformed URL --- presumably in the hope that it'd find what you are after anyway. Now if you stuff up the '://' after the protocol name the search would be on the protocol. That's what I did... and I ended up at the Microsoft site.
The funniest thing about it was the URL I had tried to enter was 'http://fsf.org'. I'm still cleaning the coffee off the screen.
Just for the record, FF has changed its behaviour now: it seems to go to the Google page for that search instead. Of course, that may be a config thing too. Also, the MS site now comes in at 31 for a search on 'http'.
I like the new interface, but I don't like that I had to teach my fingers new shortcuts. Consistency is a good thing, especially with muscle memory...
Heh. I usually use Emacs. The standard keybinding to save the file[1] you're working on is Ctrl-x Ctrl-s. When using Word, OOo or such that cuts the selection and then saves. It's not always a problem (it's nothing I can't undo) but I have been known to have entire documents highlighted, cut, saved and closed before I realise what I've done.
[1] Translation for Emacs purists: 'The standard keybinding to write the buffer you're working on to its file is C-x C-s. When using Word, OOo or such that kills the region and then writes the buffer.' Hopefully you can figure out the rest.