So they were using their lawyers to threaten the blogger under the assumption that the blogger wouldn't be able to afford to defend themselves (possibly knowing they were legally wrong).
Blogger gets free representation - and suddenly the who's right/wrong comes back into the equation and they withdraw (because they are good corporate citizens).
I typically drive 10 mph over the posted speed limit, both on freeways and on roads. IMHO, the posted speed limit is for either A) the driver with dementia who shouldn't be driving anyway, or B) some government that needs the speeding fines to balance their budget.
Go Los Angeles and there are some freeway offramps marked 25 MPH and, goddamit, they farking mean it oh holy shit will I make it. But as time goes on those honest speed limits get replaced with better intersections, but the speed limit stays the same.
Freeway speed limits should be 80. Non freeway speeds should be a good 10 MPH over what they are already.
Lucky you're not in Australia.. I have been booked (via hidden camera) for doing 64km/h in a 60km/h zone (39.8mph in a 37.2 zone).
Police generally will pull you over if you're doing 10km/h over the limit (6.2 mph) as the fine doubles at that point.
15km/h over (9.3mph) triples the fine.
And I'm not just talking about police on traffic duty - any police car will pull you over if you're speeding.
If you get caught doing 25km/h over (15.5mph) that's an immediate loss of license.
Our highway / freeway limits (apart from some isolated stretches on interstate highways) are all 100km/h (62mph).
What it does is searches through all the Australian online book shops as well as international shops that send to Australia.
So it finds every store that has the book, converts the currency into Australian dollars and then gives you a list sorted by the cheapest including delivery.
Using that service you don't need to use a specific provider or even a forwarder - it'll just give you the cheapest item per book.
Just following on from this. As it was quite a while ago my school had limit amount of computers. There was only 1 computer for the class (which was in another room).
So we learnt LOGO on the black board. We all designed our "program" on paper (i think it was in pairs or small groups).
We then all took turns to go and run our program. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
We then went back and adjusted (debugged) our program and had another go shortly after.
Basically gave us skills to plan what we wanted, write and test it and then identify problems and solve them by correcting the code.
The old system i dont believe was broken. It gave me the privacy settings that i wanted.
Given it might be a bit confusing for novice users, but all they needed to give it was an interface facelift.
Right now i have less privacy than i had - i cant hide any comments/likes i make on the system and need to go through and individually delete them off my wall.
Thanks to overbaud's reply below. By hash i was meaning a solution such as guid value. I was speaking generically and not taking the literal meaning of hash for the purpose of being database agnostic.
Create a timestamp/random hash and store it against each record, then include it in your update query.
UPDATE table SET
data1 = @Data,
hash = NewHash() WHERE ID = @ID AND Hash = @Hash
Every save, change the hash to a new value.
If someone has changed the record and another person goes to save it, the hash wont match and 0 records will be updated. This can then be captured in your web application.
If 0 records updated - display error saying "user has already changed record, please reload page" If 1 records updated - display success.
I though Europe was blocked 2 years or so earlier. Didn't know that France was an exception. Or he was lucky with his IP block being considered American.
Being in Australia i was blocked off 1-2 years ago.
I think the OP was just in a lucky IP range which they finally fixed up.
Well I'm qualified as one... but I don't currently practice law. I'm a university lecturer... specifically, Information Technology Law and IP Law. So saying 'IAAL' is slightly naughty of me since I'm not actually representing clients et al. at this point, I just have the necessary qualifications.
The issue is that Hasbro only have the rights for scrabble in the US. Everywhere else in the world the rights are owned by Matel, who dont appear to be as interested in suing.
The reason for doing this is microsoft dont want to break the majority of pages there.
The fact of the matter is those pages have been written to work in firefox with an IE hack added over the top.
All the developers need to do is remove the IE hack and use the firefox base and it will work with minimal effort.
Plus forcing people to actually fix it will push the direction back into 1 implementation of html rather than the multiple versions that developers need to currently make.
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Such as the GPD Pocket or the soon to be released upgrade which will be called the GPD Pocket 2?
Not forgetting bears that will drop from trees and bite you... https://australianmuseum.net.a...
So they were using their lawyers to threaten the blogger under the assumption that the blogger wouldn't be able to afford to defend themselves (possibly knowing they were legally wrong). Blogger gets free representation - and suddenly the who's right/wrong comes back into the equation and they withdraw (because they are good corporate citizens).
1) Buy lower end system
2) Upgrade using cheaper 3rd party components
3) ???
4) Error 53
In Australia this is classed as a defect which is defined as "something that would have caused you not to buy the product if you knew beforehand".
The other option is to go in store and ask that they open and test multiple Switches until you find one free of dead pixels.
There are similar laws currently in Australia:
https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.a...
I typically drive 10 mph over the posted speed limit, both on freeways and on roads. IMHO, the posted speed limit is for either A) the driver with dementia who shouldn't be driving anyway, or B) some government that needs the speeding fines to balance their budget.
Go Los Angeles and there are some freeway offramps marked 25 MPH and, goddamit, they farking mean it oh holy shit will I make it. But as time goes on those honest speed limits get replaced with better intersections, but the speed limit stays the same.
Freeway speed limits should be 80. Non freeway speeds should be a good 10 MPH over what they are already.
Lucky you're not in Australia.. I have been booked (via hidden camera) for doing 64km/h in a 60km/h zone (39.8mph in a 37.2 zone).
Police generally will pull you over if you're doing 10km/h over the limit (6.2 mph) as the fine doubles at that point.
15km/h over (9.3mph) triples the fine.
And I'm not just talking about police on traffic duty - any police car will pull you over if you're speeding.
If you get caught doing 25km/h over (15.5mph) that's an immediate loss of license.
Our highway / freeway limits (apart from some isolated stretches on interstate highways) are all 100km/h (62mph).
I think there right!
When looking for books I use this service: http://booko.com.au/
What it does is searches through all the Australian online book shops as well as international shops that send to Australia.
So it finds every store that has the book, converts the currency into Australian dollars and then gives you a list sorted by the cheapest including delivery.
Using that service you don't need to use a specific provider or even a forwarder - it'll just give you the cheapest item per book.
Just following on from this. As it was quite a while ago my school had limit amount of computers. There was only 1 computer for the class (which was in another room).
So we learnt LOGO on the black board. We all designed our "program" on paper (i think it was in pairs or small groups).
We then all took turns to go and run our program. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
We then went back and adjusted (debugged) our program and had another go shortly after.
Basically gave us skills to plan what we wanted, write and test it and then identify problems and solve them by correcting the code.
Back in primary school (15-20 years ago) i was introduced to programming using the Logo language (drawing the path of a turtle on the screen).
Syntax was something similar to:
FORWARD 100
LEFT 90
FORWARD 100
LEFT 90
FORWARD 100
LEFT 90
FORWARD 100
LEFT 90
OR:
REPEAT 4 [FD 100 LEFT 90]
The old system i dont believe was broken. It gave me the privacy settings that i wanted.
Given it might be a bit confusing for novice users, but all they needed to give it was an interface facelift.
Right now i have less privacy than i had - i cant hide any comments/likes i make on the system and need to go through and individually delete them off my wall.
What he's saying is it is his customers (advertisers not users) want less privacy, so they can target ads more profitably.
Thanks to overbaud's reply below. By hash i was meaning a solution such as guid value. I was speaking generically and not taking the literal meaning of hash for the purpose of being database agnostic.
Create a timestamp/random hash and store it against each record, then include it in your update query.
UPDATE table SET
data1 = @Data,
hash = NewHash()
WHERE ID = @ID
AND Hash = @Hash
Every save, change the hash to a new value.
If someone has changed the record and another person goes to save it, the hash wont match and 0 records will be updated. This can then be captured in your web application.
If 0 records updated - display error saying "user has already changed record, please reload page"
If 1 records updated - display success.
By finding catch phrases (quotes) you find the blogs that quote the news paper article.
What about specific events where there isnt a catch phrase, wouldnt those be excluded by the way the matching works?
...err, I mean. Isn't this old news?
I though Europe was blocked 2 years or so earlier. Didn't know that France was an exception. Or he was lucky with his IP block being considered American.
Being in Australia i was blocked off 1-2 years ago.
I think the OP was just in a lucky IP range which they finally fixed up.
Well I'm qualified as one ... but I don't currently practice law. I'm a university lecturer ... specifically, Information Technology Law and IP Law. So saying 'IAAL' is slightly naughty of me since I'm not actually representing clients et al. at this point, I just have the necessary qualifications.
He used et al - he must be a lawyer :P
From IMDB:
Country - Date
Germany - 11 December 2008
UK - 12 December 2008
Brazil - 25 December 2008
Iceland - 26 December 2008
The issue is that Hasbro only have the rights for scrabble in the US. Everywhere else in the world the rights are owned by Matel, who dont appear to be as interested in suing.
They are definitely making people try and pay for more than one account.
It's working too well, too efficiently and they are losing money on it.
This is actually a really good video clip. You'd think the filming was professionally shot.
Only problem was it took me 5-6 goes to understand how to do it.
It says select 4 letters (when there are numbers and letters)..
Then took me a while to realise there were cats and dogs.. i thought it was just random.
Other bad part about it was that there was a 30 second delay inbetween each attempt!
The reason for doing this is microsoft dont want to break the majority of pages there.
The fact of the matter is those pages have been written to work in firefox with an IE hack added over the top.
All the developers need to do is remove the IE hack and use the firefox base and it will work with minimal effort.
Plus forcing people to actually fix it will push the direction back into 1 implementation of html rather than the multiple versions that developers need to currently make.
If you think broadband in america is bad. Have a look at the costs in australia.
For 60$us you'll get: 512/128 adsl (thats bit not byte) with a download cap of 20-30gig.
If you spend between 90-110$us you'll get 1500/256 adsl and a cap of ~50gig.
The 2 main providors of cable make it not worth it because they slow down your connection to 56k modem after 10~ gig.