And expanding from that thought, I guess, would make libraries illegal, as they make books available and someone could easily make copies of copyrighted works in that way.
What DOES justify the use of the legal system, however, is that copyrights and trademarks must be protected. The next person who uses Fedex's copyrights and trademarks without permission would be able to point to this case and say, "they didn't defend it here, why are they defending it now". The more that happens, the quicker their trademark goes bye-bye.
I'm not saying this situation isn't ridiculous. But I think blaming Fedex for the quirkiness of US copyright and trademark law is a bit ignorant.
Actually...the phone service you pay for now IS subsidized by telemarketing. Think about it.
In addition, the problem with the state do not call rules is that it becomes cost prohibitive to scrub a list against 37 different lists.
Likewise, it's kind of silly for people in those states to have to call to be put on multiple lists.
...they stopped new development on Firefox altogether and got Thunderbird a little more stable.
Oh.....and they need to get that lightning calendar integration working, too. Then I could actually think about moving my organization over...
As the original poster suggests, sometimes the page title is a little long for a bookmark.
For example, if this particular page were bookmarked, it's title would be "Suggestions for Browser Bookmark Management?". Don't you think that's a bit long?
Or is/. spamming the search engines?
Keyword stuffing is not being unfriendly. What's wrong with an informative title that actually contains keywords that the page is about? There's a huge difference between SEO and spamming the search engines.
I would CERTAINLY put a bookmark name in the HTML. The reason for providing such an UN"suitable" title in the first place is for SEO. The search engines place a great deal of emphasis on page titles, so it's important for the titles to be "keyword rich".
With a co-op, you can actually do something. You can elect new board members that will better represent your interests. Heck, you could even start a campaign to recall the SOBs. With a private utility company, you have absolutely no power and no choice in how the place gets run. With a co-op, at least you can make the bastards sweat a little even if you can't get the membership mobilized to throw the bums out.
Gee.....sounds a lot like another idea that the co-ops were the supposed answer to: a democratic government...
Bravo. Someone who actually understands that the magazine makes (usually) NO money from subscriptions. The profit (just like Television, Sports, and many other models) is in the ads.
When did we get so many windows supporters on this site. Where have all the great OSS zealots gone that could argue down windows folk with a brilliant point of logic.Reading slashdot comments anymore feels like crawling through a post-apocolyptic wasteland.
Perhaps you should start your own forum with just you as a member. Then you wouldn't be bothered with having to read opposing points of view at all....
Jaywalking is now a terrorist act, as it is dangerous to the life of the jaywalker and is a violation of law.
That's gotta be the most disingenuous post I've ever seen. How about posting the entire definition? If you did (or if you even bothered to read it), you'd see that the activities need to meet more criteria than what you just posted there.
But, hey......why let the truth get in the way of a good point, right?
For those too lazy, here's the ENTIRE section that's referenced (note the "and"....it means that ALL of the conditions must be met):
(5) the term `domestic terrorism' means activities that--
`(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
`(B) appear to be intended--
`(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
`(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
`(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
`(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.'.
While I agree that average Joe user probably should have to take some sort of test before being allowed to purchase a computer, are you suggesting that spyware is no big deal and we should all just get over it?
Do you have any idea how much corporations (i.e. you and me through increased prices on everything from soup to nuts) spend each year to combat this crap?!?
Two of my best friends are teachers. One at a high school and the other at a grammar school. The idea of either of them teaching technology to kids is frightening. The fact that they know how to use e-mail at all is a miracle.
Hiring a stock person in the electronics department of the local WalMart to teach technology would be a better investment of our tax dollars.
As I recently told a friend of mine, "I don't want your money.....then I'll be on your schedule."
Unless you plan on making a true business out of it, you're asking for trouble. You're probably better off bartering for other favors from your friends (i.e. you fix their computer...they paint your living room, change your oil, or buy you some beer).
Here is your brand new car, sir. Drive it off the lot. Yay yay new car. Suddenly, new car shuts off. New car barely starts again and then only goes about 6 miles per hour and it belches smoke and every warning light on the dashboard is blinking on and off and the tires are screaming and the heater is blasting your feet and something smells like burned hair. You hobble back to the dealer, who only says, gosh, sorry, we thought you knew -- that's they way they all run. Enjoy!
This analogy sucks. The correct analogy would be akin to this person buying a car and driving straight into the middle of the highway and expecting not to be hit by another motorist.
Put your coat on when you go outside. Wear your seatbelt. Put on SPF 30. Lock your doors. Tie your shoes. Kill the power before you do any electrical work.
We do millions of things each day to protect ourselves. Why should hopping on the 'Net and operating a computer be any different? I don't imagine the author expects that ANY new computer owner simply opens the box and has no problems operating the computer (Mac, Linux, Windows or any OS).
AFAIK, you don't have to warn them or ask them to remove you from the list - its not your responsibility to tell them you're on the list. Its their responsibility to check the list against the numbers they're dialing. They fail to do so, then its their problem they get hit with the fines.
Actually, that's not exactly true.
If the company has a "pre-existing relationship" with you, they're allowed to call you regardless of whether you're registered (until you tell them to remove your number from their list).
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And expanding from that thought, I guess, would make libraries illegal, as they make books available and someone could easily make copies of copyrighted works in that way.
Inserting a piece of flash on a page is FAR DIFFERENT imho than designing an entire site with it.
What DOES justify the use of the legal system, however, is that copyrights and trademarks must be protected. The next person who uses Fedex's copyrights and trademarks without permission would be able to point to this case and say, "they didn't defend it here, why are they defending it now". The more that happens, the quicker their trademark goes bye-bye.
I'm not saying this situation isn't ridiculous. But I think blaming Fedex for the quirkiness of US copyright and trademark law is a bit ignorant.
Actually...the phone service you pay for now IS subsidized by telemarketing. Think about it. In addition, the problem with the state do not call rules is that it becomes cost prohibitive to scrub a list against 37 different lists. Likewise, it's kind of silly for people in those states to have to call to be put on multiple lists.
...they stopped new development on Firefox altogether and got Thunderbird a little more stable. Oh.....and they need to get that lightning calendar integration working, too. Then I could actually think about moving my organization over...
Advertising to fund content is not a sustainable business model as too many people are willing to provide genuinely free content.
Yeah....Radio and Television isn't a very big business at all.
I bet you know someone that would do it for a bag of grass or a night of drinking or something along those lines.
Just might want to make sure they do the soldering BEFORE you "pay".....
As the original poster suggests, sometimes the page title is a little long for a bookmark. For example, if this particular page were bookmarked, it's title would be "Suggestions for Browser Bookmark Management?". Don't you think that's a bit long? Or is /. spamming the search engines?
Keyword stuffing is not being unfriendly. What's wrong with an informative title that actually contains keywords that the page is about? There's a huge difference between SEO and spamming the search engines.
I would CERTAINLY put a bookmark name in the HTML. The reason for providing such an UN"suitable" title in the first place is for SEO. The search engines place a great deal of emphasis on page titles, so it's important for the titles to be "keyword rich".
Drivers Lic #'s, SSN's, Lic Plate #'s, are not likely to be included. What numbers could Google search?
How about UPC numbers, reverse phone, IP address lookups.......
With a co-op, you can actually do something. You can elect new board members that will better represent your interests. Heck, you could even start a campaign to recall the SOBs. With a private utility company, you have absolutely no power and no choice in how the place gets run. With a co-op, at least you can make the bastards sweat a little even if you can't get the membership mobilized to throw the bums out.
Gee.....sounds a lot like another idea that the co-ops were the supposed answer to: a democratic government...
Bravo. Someone who actually understands that the magazine makes (usually) NO money from subscriptions. The profit (just like Television, Sports, and many other models) is in the ads.
Maybe they could show a young Kirk in PE class learning how to run like a penguin....
When did we get so many windows supporters on this site. Where have all the great OSS zealots gone that could argue down windows folk with a brilliant point of logic.Reading slashdot comments anymore feels like crawling through a post-apocolyptic wasteland.
Perhaps you should start your own forum with just you as a member. Then you wouldn't be bothered with having to read opposing points of view at all....
Damn. THAT would be a comic book movie worth seeing.
And it's not that far off. It would certainly fit with the Joel Sliver / Matrix connection.....
Jaywalking is now a terrorist act, as it is dangerous to the life of the jaywalker and is a violation of law.
That's gotta be the most disingenuous post I've ever seen. How about posting the entire definition? If you did (or if you even bothered to read it), you'd see that the activities need to meet more criteria than what you just posted there.
But, hey......why let the truth get in the way of a good point, right?
For those too lazy, here's the ENTIRE section that's referenced (note the "and"....it means that ALL of the conditions must be met):
(5) the term `domestic terrorism' means activities that--
`(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
`(B) appear to be intended--
`(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
`(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
`(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
`(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.'.
Give this plug-in for Winamp a try. It's called Rock Steady and I've been using it for a year or two at the office without a hitch.
Mostly because the average voter doesn't spend ANY of his/her time researching the candidates in November....
Simply get over it?
While I agree that average Joe user probably should have to take some sort of test before being allowed to purchase a computer, are you suggesting that spyware is no big deal and we should all just get over it?
Do you have any idea how much corporations (i.e. you and me through increased prices on everything from soup to nuts) spend each year to combat this crap?!?
.....is already out.
Two of my best friends are teachers. One at a high school and the other at a grammar school. The idea of either of them teaching technology to kids is frightening. The fact that they know how to use e-mail at all is a miracle.
Hiring a stock person in the electronics department of the local WalMart to teach technology would be a better investment of our tax dollars.
As I recently told a friend of mine, "I don't want your money.....then I'll be on your schedule." Unless you plan on making a true business out of it, you're asking for trouble. You're probably better off bartering for other favors from your friends (i.e. you fix their computer...they paint your living room, change your oil, or buy you some beer).
This analogy sucks. The correct analogy would be akin to this person buying a car and driving straight into the middle of the highway and expecting not to be hit by another motorist.
Put your coat on when you go outside. Wear your seatbelt. Put on SPF 30. Lock your doors. Tie your shoes. Kill the power before you do any electrical work.
We do millions of things each day to protect ourselves. Why should hopping on the 'Net and operating a computer be any different? I don't imagine the author expects that ANY new computer owner simply opens the box and has no problems operating the computer (Mac, Linux, Windows or any OS).
There's evil out there. Be careful.
Actually, that's not exactly true.
If the company has a "pre-existing relationship" with you, they're allowed to call you regardless of whether you're registered (until you tell them to remove your number from their list).