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  1. Re:rights, ownership on How Can Cybersquatters Be Evicted, Cheaply? · · Score: 1

    Ok let me see if I can show you how to post a response without sounding like ill informed flaimbait. I gave you the Wikipedia link to explain to you the whole concept of Domain Names (which you still don't seem to). I don't disagree your the idea "idea of taking what is owned by others is wrong." I disagree with your premise that the author was trying to do that and additionaly I was explaining to you that you do not own domain names (hence the wikipedia link). Which came first really wouldn't apply to who actually would have rights to the domain name. It is primarily based on how you use the domain, and if it is in good faith. Again my advice, read more type less.

    Also:
    My reply = Well informed, educated and not involving all caps.
    Domain name regulation != laws
    The usefullness of this entire exchange = wasting most everyone's time...

  2. Re:rights, ownership on How Can Cybersquatters Be Evicted, Cheaply? · · Score: 1

    ALL CAPS are stupid. Seriously, there is no need for that. I have a better question for you: At what point did running your mouth with no idea what you were talking about become ok? Some advice, read more type less. If you'd like to understand more about domain names you should out this. Good luck with the learning and the anger issues.

  3. Here's the answer on How Can Cybersquatters Be Evicted, Cheaply? · · Score: 4, Informative
    The World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO) will handle domain name domain name disputes and arbitration.

    Check out there Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service (DNDRS).

    You should also consult ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, which is the guidline for WIPO's aritration.

    Here's an abbreviated of what you would need to qualify:
    • your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and
    • you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and
    • your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
    Bad faith is:
    • circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain...(extortion)
    • you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
    • you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
    • by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.

    Now since the owner of the domain says he will not sell "at any price," and they probably aren't out to disrupt your business... it seems like your SOL. Hope this is helpful for anyone who has a legitimate dispute and need for arbitration.

    Oh, and I know a lot of people are going to say that the whole arbitration process might be out of date as most "squatters" have realized all you have to do is put up one of those "search" tool that serves soley for advertising, and then try to sell the domain for a ridiculous amount of money. Those people are right.
  4. Like Project Gutenberg? Oh... How about on A Repository for Multimedia in the Public Domain? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Project Gutenberg

    Did anybody notice that Project Gutenberg does do audio and video files?

    The wikipedia suggestions are good, also check out Creative Commons; not quite the same, but useful.

  5. This might fit the job on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    For anyone out there who use Gmail you might have noticed the the JavaScript based editor for emails.

    It will actually give you the ability to paste in code from other editors ( including MS Word ).

    The app is called TinyMCE. TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB.

    It may not make perfect XHTML compliant code, but you can try the input and test the output results here.

    I've found it to be a pretty useful tool and it should clean up the HTML pretty well. All in all it's going to depend on the basic page layout you have to decide if this is the right fit for you.

  6. Re:Jaded on Clinton To Take On Rockstar · · Score: 1

    I listen to myself just fine. Maybe you should question more of your reading skill. I said:

    "Whether or not you agree on rating systems at all can we not just agree that it has qualified for that rating all along?"

    But nice rant about "normal play." I really liked all the bold parts. Maybe if I had bolded more things you would have read my comments before responding. Thanks.

  7. Jaded on Clinton To Take On Rockstar · · Score: 1

    How jaded are we that we can't even draw a line? I'm not saying I'm for or against pornographic content, but if Rockstar is going to go so far as to program a sex game (for all of you who don't know google it. there are some rather graphic videos of the game's scene), then can we not just label it AO (Adults Only) ? This is a legitimate ESRB rating. Are we against all regulation? I for one will not join this technical militia! (Insert partial sarcasm)

    "Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity."

    Whether or not you agree on rating systems at all can we not just agree that it has qualified for that rating all along?

    Oh, and while we're at it, can we lay of the lawmakers for doing something 90% of their constituents agree with? Them's the breaks in a democratic republic.

  8. out of touch on Check Boxes and Radio Buttons Conquered by DHTML · · Score: 1

    Oh /. my /.. How out of touch have you become? This is not new. People have been doing this or similar Javascript\checkbox hacks for some time.

  9. A head above the rest on Does Anyone in IT Read Academic Literature? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you need to keep up? No. That is not to say you should not. For starters this community should no better than most the speed at which this industry changes. Knowing what is coming and maybe even more importantly what is on it's way out can make or break a career.

    There are many markets where it really is necessary to reach that next tier of success. If you want to be a grunt, for now or for life, stay as a grunt. Not that you cannot be a successful grunt, but you are handicapped to be one without that knowledge. Your education, continuing education that is, is what gives you the abilities to see what others can't and thus to go where others can't. That's the difference between programming and application design. Trust me, cubicles are nice, but window offices are better.

    If you want to take the road less filled with research don't start your own business, don't invest your money, and enjoy your cubicle. There's a good chance that there will be a nice fellow a cubicle over waiting on that ideal FORTRAN contract to come along.

    Seriously though, this knowledge is what allows me to do things better than the other guy. It's what makes my brand and to what I owe my success. One more note of advice. When given the opportunity to teach take it. As a primary job fuction or not (professor or simply project team member) teaching will guarantee you rewards to your own personal education found in no other way.

  10. tips on Stopping Unstoppable Malware? · · Score: 1

    comb through the running processes running. A simple google search will turn up enough information (usually). If anything is identified as malware, running regedit and doing a search for said file names will often find those keys intentionally put in random sources. Delete them. Also be sure to clear any of the said files in "%systemroot%/system32" and the like.

  11. Re:Slashdot Answers on Has the Data Security Problem Become an Epidemic? · · Score: 1

    Also, one other note, there is a interesting paper on this "Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age." It's a pretty good read.

  12. Slashdot Answers on Has the Data Security Problem Become an Epidemic? · · Score: 1

    I just went to a very interesting panel discussion about just this very subject, hosted by hosted by the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org). It featured some very insightful comments from the very knowledgeable James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

    Video transcripts are also available (here)

  13. Re:Some of it is legal on Has the Data Security Problem Become an Epidemic? · · Score: 1

    You are right about the lack of federal law. The disclosure laws are state by state and all have their own sets of conditions for what must be disclosed and when.

  14. Re:But is it the default config... on Hack IIS6 Contest · · Score: 1

    63.88.172.208 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0

  15. Correction on Two Faces of Electronic Voting · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can only make these corrections so many times...
    This is not the world's first legally binding internet vote
    This is the first Swiss legally binding internet vote.
    The first legally binding internet vote:
    "The US, which held the first legally binding internet election, the 2000 Arizona Democratic Primary, is treading more carefully. While the government is spending $2.6bn on modernising voting systems following the 2000 fiasco in Florida, the only Americans able to cast remote internet votes next year will be 100,000 service personnel posted overseas."
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0 ,12767,994790,00.html
    I would expect a little better from and IEEE member. IEEE used the company that ran the world's first legally binding internet vote to run their internal elections online for some time.

    The overseas votes the story references are none other than that of the recent SERVE project that was cancelled recently. A similar story was posted on /. riddled with undue criticisms
    I ask you /. community, please be more careful in your statements. Internet voting is the future of the electoral process. We the tech community, of all people, must understand this or at least have a well researched response as to why not.

  16. Re:More than digital signatures. on Absentee Ballots by Email? · · Score: 1

    Does no one remember SERVE? (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment)
    http://www.dod.gov/releases/2003/nr20030602-0073.h tml
    No one voted. They and you had such wonderfulfly inteligent headlines as "Internet Voting Inherently Flawed" from CNN. That stated nothing more than the opinion that nothing on the internet could ever be secure.
    It was eventually cancelled.
    http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/05/elec04.p rez.internet.voting/