Rep. Rick Boucher has a summary of the bill as well as the full text here. He was also on of the proposers of a recent bill that would make sites like my.mp3.com legal, and a few years ago he proposed giving tax credits to maintainers of widely used open-source programs. I wonder if he reads slashdot.
My only guess is that since Amazon is a "big" company that they were able to grease some palms in the patent office and get by whatever they wish. The only ones that probably fail are the ones individuals try to get since they don't have any legal advise on how to apply and what to say.
Do you have any idea at all what you just said? Do you have any, and I mean any proof that the USPTO took a bribe to allow Amazon.com to get this patent through? Do you?
I dont think you do. So why dont you try to work on facts. Dont make things up. Dont guess and at the same time make up lies and conjecture about corruption and fraud.
He wasn't presenting his statement as a fact; he was presenting it as a conspiracy theory. What's wrong with that?
Conspiracy theories are to be refuted by proving otherwise, or at the very least by providing an alternative explanation. Pointing out that the conspiracy theorist has provided no proof is, well, pointless.
"Insecure" should be added at the beginning of the hostname, or used as the ident (since they're not using identd). Adding it to the end of the hostname makes it hard to set up good domain bans.
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Update: 09/29 11:04 PM by michael: We know about it, blah-blah-blah. Don't email us. I think it's safe to say that whatever happened, you'll hear the full details soon enough. Thanks.
Outlook syncs to my mobile phone, point me to another program that does that, and I'll use it.
An older version of Outlook Express used to add everyone who sent me a signed e-mail to my address book wihtout asking me. Now it adds everyone to my address book who sends me an e-mail with a "from" address and name.
My college says they have set up their routers to allow Napster traffic but give it lower priority than other traffic. Do you know if other colleges are doing this?
I find typing alt-D (or ctrl-L), slashdot.org, enter to be faster than picking up the mouse and clicking a link in favorites or on from my links bar / personal toolbar. I make typos occasionally, but most of the time I just get a 404 -- no big deal. Of course, I'm used to doing the typing, and I might be faster at using the mouse for this if I was used to using the mouse.
I use the links bar / personal toolbar for bookmarklets, and accesskeyed links on my start page for sites I visit frequently. I use favorites/bookmarks a a place to dump URLs that I might want to look at 6 months from now.
it's always those fucking pages with 550 popup windows and banner ads -- there is no porn. That's what really bugs me.
Mozilla bug 29346 has been futured, so I'm afraid we might have to live with this problem for a while longer (the multiple popup ads, not the lack of porn).
Granholm said: "Hacking is the dark side of high technology's power and progress. For every person using a computer or the Internet for research, commerce or communication, there may be another person using that technology to commit a crime. The Internet, unfortunately, has become one more tool to pick the locks of companies across the country."
Thank you for not saying "a criminal using the same technology". They could have resorted to labeling everyone who commits crimes as a "criminal", but they chose a more responsible wording. (They still screwed up the sentence order, though, to make it seem like most of the crimes committed using computers involve cracking.)
Because you placed an order for the DVD "The Big Blue - Director's Cut" during this period, we wanted to let you know that we will be refunding the difference between the price you paid and the lowest test price that we offered on that DVD during the test period, in your case, $1.49.
This doesn't sound like Amazon is going back on the experiment. It's just saying that consumers who buy items during the experiment will get refunded.
Finally, at any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the more than 4.7 million items on our site may be mispriced.
Marketing to PR: you mean our price discrimination still isn't perfect on some of our items? How are we supposed to max^H^H^Heliminate deadweight loss if we aren't charging each customer the right price?
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Conspiracy theories are to be refuted by proving otherwise, or at the very least by providing an alternative explanation. Pointing out that the conspiracy theorist has provided no proof is, well, pointless.
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Update: 09/29 11:04 PM by michael: We know about it, blah-blah-blah. Don't email us. I think it's safe to say that whatever happened, you'll hear the full details soon enough. Thanks.
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An older version of Outlook Express used to add everyone who sent me a signed e-mail to my address book wihtout asking me. Now it adds everyone to my address book who sends me an e-mail with a "from" address and name.
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I use the links bar / personal toolbar for bookmarklets, and accesskeyed links on my start page for sites I visit frequently. I use favorites/bookmarks a a place to dump URLs that I might want to look at 6 months from now.
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An old slashdot comment gives a possible reason for this that goes beyond "steal users and get money from showing them porn ads"
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Mozilla bug 29346 has been futured, so I'm afraid we might have to live with this problem for a while longer (the multiple popup ads, not the lack of porn).
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No, silly, it's on your desktop, along with your computer, which contains your hard drive.
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They slashdotted the fish! Those bastards!
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Thank you for not saying "a criminal using the same technology". They could have resorted to labeling everyone who commits crimes as a "criminal", but they chose a more responsible wording. (They still screwed up the sentence order, though, to make it seem like most of the crimes committed using computers involve cracking.)
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Good for searching for geek things, or good in general?
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Hey, don't go too hard on Marketing. They're how Netscape makes (or at least used to make) money.
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This doesn't sound like Amazon is going back on the experiment. It's just saying that consumers who buy items during the experiment will get refunded.
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Marketing to PR: you mean our price discrimination still isn't perfect on some of our items? How are we supposed to max^H^H^Heliminate deadweight loss if we aren't charging each customer the right price?
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