Yup; they claim ownership of the trademark to the name "GMail". Hardly a claim to "own the intellectual property rights to [the] gmail service" as said above. If Google loses, they'll just rename GMail to GoogleMail. BFD.
This seems to be a female, though admittedly probably not what you had in mind. Let's take a look at this picture then. I can't quite tell, but the humanoid with the curly red hair in the purple shirt may be female. The one on the bottom right with a hand by her face certinly is (she looks rather young though), and the person just to her left facing away from the camera appears to be as well, as does the person sitting at bottom center, whose head we can just see the top of.
Indeed. Before the recent mega-mergers (MGM/Mandalay, Harrah's/Caesar's), Harrah's was the largest casino operator in the world with only a single casino on the Las Vegas strip, while MGM, Mandalay and Caesar's each had several.
I hope it's spring-loaded, or half of them will end up hanging open because of fucktards who can't be bothered to close them properly after viewing the video. You know who I'm talking about - the same fags who can't push a shopping cart 20 feet to the collection bin instead of leaving it in the middle of the parking lot, or who knock a candy bar off the shelf in the register line and leave it on the floor for somebody else to pick up.
But only through automatic updates. If you go to Windows Update manually, it tells you that you have to download the WGA verification utility in order to proceed. I was pretty pissed until I read a post on/. explaining it; I never would have thought to use automatic updates otherwise.
If the answer is "forever", then go for one time pad and it'll be secure until doomsday.
If you're going to do that, you might as well leave it in cleartext and save yourself some trouble. One time pads are useful in very specific circumstances, and permanent protection of stored material is not one of them. Remember that OTP requires a key of the same length as the message, so if you encrypt you message of length n with an OTP, you then have to store securely a key of length n. If your key is compromised, so is your message. This being the case, just apply whatever security you would use to keep the key secret to the message itself and save yourself the trouble of having to store both the ciphertext and key (basically, treat the message itself as the key).
A more appropriate use of OTPs is to timeshift the exchange of a secret. For example, when sending covert operatives into the field, the handlers will issue them a set of OTP keys to be used to encrypt any secret communications between them. This is quite different from the way cryptography is generally used in the real world, which is to turn a big secret into a smaller one (i.e. instead of having to transmit a 5k message securely, we only have to exchange a 256 bit key, and the ciphertext of the message can be sent in the clear).
Now, if you wanted to publish the ciphertext in a public forum, but ensure that only certain individuals would ever be able to decrypt it, an OTP might be a good way to do that, depending on your key exchange and management scheme.
Steve Jobs could take a dump in a white paper bag, tout it at the latest MacWorld, and it would be bought up by the thousand by zealots from the world over.
OMG!!!!! Are you serious??!? Have they announced a release date? Where can I get this iDump? Does it smell too?
Dropping ads into HTTP shouldn't be too difficult for an ISP to pull off if they use transparent proxies. They can either frame requested pages with ads, or serve interstitials every so often. Sure, there are some hurdles (frame-breaking javascript, excluding image requests from the ad-serving logic) but nothing insurmountable. There shouldn't be a need to drop ads into SSL sessions; they'll just get you when you drop back to straight HTTP.
what is to stop you from putting an ad up that read "GEICO Insurance" and linking to your site?
This is exactly what was happening, though GEICO took the hardline and asserted that *any* use of the GEICO trademark was confusing (remember, they wanted to stop Google from selling "GEICO" as a keyword, regardless of the content of the sponsored ad). Unfortunately, I suspect that you're correct, and Google will simply blacklist certain trademarks from the sponsored ads, effectively giving GEICO what they want, regardless of the actual ruling in this case.
But if I pay Google to put up an ad which reads "B'Trey's Auto Insurance - better than Geico!" then I run afoul of this ruling.
I doubt that the scope of this ruling includes such marketing hyperbole. Not long ago, if you Googled on "GEICO", you'd see a couple of sponsored ads that read simply "GEICO Auto Insurance" but linked to non-affiliated companies or agencies. This was clearly misleading, and I would hope that this is the sort of thing addressed by the ruling at hand.
This is not to say that GEICO isn't trying to get a ruling against any use of their trademark (they are), but the courts generally only prohibit misleading uses of a trademark ("Buy GEICO Insurance") while allowing non-misleading use of a trademark for comparative purposes ("We're better than GEICO!").
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Believe it or not, they still make these. I have one on my desk.
Hmmm. Interesting. After seeing some of those comments (e.g. " These tires are crap, and thats the bottom line!"), I'm not sure why mine didn't make it. I didn't use any profanity, and I took pains to present my experience objectively. I don't remember the exact wording, but I said something on the order of:
"Despite the all-season classification of these tires, their performance characteristics are much closer to those of summer tires. They harden up like rocks when the temp drops, and provide almost no traction on even a light dusting of snow. I was lucky to get home in one piece after a 1/4" snowfall with these tires. If you need to drive in any conditions other than warm weather, do not under any circumstances buy this tire!"
I assumed it was dumped for negativity, but maybe it just fell through the cracks. Either that, or the reviewer decided that because they were ultra-high performance tires that my expectations were unrealistic (which I do not believe was the case - even on UHP tires, if classified as All Season, they should provide enough traction in 1/4" snow that one can make gentle turns at 5 MPH without losing control).
In any event, based on the reviews you linked, it appears that TireRack reviews are handled much more fairly than I had thought.
I was thinking the same thing. I don't know that they'd want to point it to a page saying "Hey, we're blocking this site for your convenience!" though. Better to have it fail silently by pointing it to 127.0.0.2 or some such. Censorship works best when it is transparent to those being censored.
I wrote a review on TireRack that got silently rejected last winter. The thing is, I wrote the review specifically to warn people that a particular set of "All-Season" tires was dangerously inadequate on even a light dusting of snow, despite the manufacturer's claims. Unfortunately, I suppose when you get up in the $250/tire range, sales trump safety.
And don't forget, a lot of the stuff that is technically counterfit really isn't- The brand name legal goods are made in a factory in China, they just keep the factory running a couple extra days and the goods are the exact same, just not exactly legal.
These are still counterfeit goods. It doesn't matter that they are made on the same assembly line, by the same workers to the same specs - they are unauthorized copies. A product doesn't have to be of inferior quality to be counterfeit.
If the guys at Ford snuck in the factory and made a couple extra cars in their free time, and sold them themselves, are the cars counterfit?
On the other hand, I understand his reasoning behind the remarks: If you promote something, and it still goes wrong, people will try to blame it on you.
I'm sure that's part of it, but eBay and its officers are also smart enough not to piss off an important business partner by publicly endorsing competing products. eBay runs their front-end webservers on Windows infrastructure.
when I get up in the morning I'm likely to be thinking about how amazing it is that my alarm clock just "knows" when to go off
That's funny - I'm usually thinking about how wonderful everything was *until* the alarm went off. Then I wonder whether I really need to go to work that day. And then I wonder why I can't ever answer that last with a "no".
Sorry to see that you got modded down, but I too lament the passing of the album era. While we generally consider the artistic unit in music to be the song, in many cases the album itself is also an artistic creation.
The obvious example is the concept album - imagine a world in which Pink Floyd's The Wall (or the Who's Tommy, or Rush's 2112, or Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime)existed only as a collection of individual tracks distributed independently of each other. While the songs from these albums certainly are capable of standing alone, their inclusion in albums of conceptually related material gives them additional meaning, and adds context that allows them collectively, as an album, to be greater than than the sum of the individual parts.
Even ignoring concept albums for the moment, track order can have a significant effect on the mood of an album, and add continuity that otherwise would be lacking. Try taking a familiar album and playing it in shuffle mode sometime - the songs are still familiar, but it feels completely different.
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Yup; they claim ownership of the trademark to the name "GMail". Hardly a claim to "own the intellectual property rights to [the] gmail service" as said above. If Google loses, they'll just rename GMail to GoogleMail. BFD.
Only one mother? I didn't know my mom was your mom too...
Yup. Her name is John Jacon Jingleheimer Smith.
This seems to be a female, though admittedly probably not what you had in mind. Let's take a look at this picture then. I can't quite tell, but the humanoid with the curly red hair in the purple shirt may be female. The one on the bottom right with a hand by her face certinly is (she looks rather young though), and the person just to her left facing away from the camera appears to be as well, as does the person sitting at bottom center, whose head we can just see the top of.
Dude, do you even know where you are?
Indeed. Before the recent mega-mergers (MGM/Mandalay, Harrah's/Caesar's), Harrah's was the largest casino operator in the world with only a single casino on the Las Vegas strip, while MGM, Mandalay and Caesar's each had several.
I hope it's spring-loaded, or half of them will end up hanging open because of fucktards who can't be bothered to close them properly after viewing the video. You know who I'm talking about - the same fags who can't push a shopping cart 20 feet to the collection bin instead of leaving it in the middle of the parking lot, or who knock a candy bar off the shelf in the register line and leave it on the floor for somebody else to pick up.
But only through automatic updates. If you go to Windows Update manually, it tells you that you have to download the WGA verification utility in order to proceed. I was pretty pissed until I read a post on /. explaining it; I never would have thought to use automatic updates otherwise.
If the answer is "forever", then go for one time pad and it'll be secure until doomsday.
If you're going to do that, you might as well leave it in cleartext and save yourself some trouble. One time pads are useful in very specific circumstances, and permanent protection of stored material is not one of them. Remember that OTP requires a key of the same length as the message, so if you encrypt you message of length n with an OTP, you then have to store securely a key of length n. If your key is compromised, so is your message. This being the case, just apply whatever security you would use to keep the key secret to the message itself and save yourself the trouble of having to store both the ciphertext and key (basically, treat the message itself as the key).
A more appropriate use of OTPs is to timeshift the exchange of a secret. For example, when sending covert operatives into the field, the handlers will issue them a set of OTP keys to be used to encrypt any secret communications between them. This is quite different from the way cryptography is generally used in the real world, which is to turn a big secret into a smaller one (i.e. instead of having to transmit a 5k message securely, we only have to exchange a 256 bit key, and the ciphertext of the message can be sent in the clear).
Now, if you wanted to publish the ciphertext in a public forum, but ensure that only certain individuals would ever be able to decrypt it, an OTP might be a good way to do that, depending on your key exchange and management scheme.
Steve Jobs could take a dump in a white paper bag, tout it at the latest MacWorld, and it would be bought up by the thousand by zealots from the world over.
OMG!!!!! Are you serious??!? Have they announced a release date? Where can I get this iDump? Does it smell too?
Neither. There's a click-through EULA in the shuttle's boot sequence.
Dropping ads into HTTP shouldn't be too difficult for an ISP to pull off if they use transparent proxies. They can either frame requested pages with ads, or serve interstitials every so often. Sure, there are some hurdles (frame-breaking javascript, excluding image requests from the ad-serving logic) but nothing insurmountable. There shouldn't be a need to drop ads into SSL sessions; they'll just get you when you drop back to straight HTTP.
Maybe *you* don't. Personally, I find it to be a wonderful conversation starter.
what is to stop you from putting an ad up that read "GEICO Insurance" and linking to your site?
This is exactly what was happening, though GEICO took the hardline and asserted that *any* use of the GEICO trademark was confusing (remember, they wanted to stop Google from selling "GEICO" as a keyword, regardless of the content of the sponsored ad). Unfortunately, I suspect that you're correct, and Google will simply blacklist certain trademarks from the sponsored ads, effectively giving GEICO what they want, regardless of the actual ruling in this case.
But if I pay Google to put up an ad which reads "B'Trey's Auto Insurance - better than Geico!" then I run afoul of this ruling.
I doubt that the scope of this ruling includes such marketing hyperbole. Not long ago, if you Googled on "GEICO", you'd see a couple of sponsored ads that read simply "GEICO Auto Insurance" but linked to non-affiliated companies or agencies. This was clearly misleading, and I would hope that this is the sort of thing addressed by the ruling at hand.
This is not to say that GEICO isn't trying to get a ruling against any use of their trademark (they are), but the courts generally only prohibit misleading uses of a trademark ("Buy GEICO Insurance") while allowing non-misleading use of a trademark for comparative purposes ("We're better than GEICO!").
Believe it or not, they still make these. I have one on my desk.
Hmmm. Interesting. After seeing some of those comments (e.g. " These tires are crap, and thats the bottom line!"), I'm not sure why mine didn't make it. I didn't use any profanity, and I took pains to present my experience objectively. I don't remember the exact wording, but I said something on the order of:
"Despite the all-season classification of these tires, their performance characteristics are much closer to those of summer tires. They harden up like rocks when the temp drops, and provide almost no traction on even a light dusting of snow. I was lucky to get home in one piece after a 1/4" snowfall with these tires. If you need to drive in any conditions other than warm weather, do not under any circumstances buy this tire!"
I assumed it was dumped for negativity, but maybe it just fell through the cracks. Either that, or the reviewer decided that because they were ultra-high performance tires that my expectations were unrealistic (which I do not believe was the case - even on UHP tires, if classified as All Season, they should provide enough traction in 1/4" snow that one can make gentle turns at 5 MPH without losing control).
In any event, based on the reviews you linked, it appears that TireRack reviews are handled much more fairly than I had thought.
I was thinking the same thing. I don't know that they'd want to point it to a page saying "Hey, we're blocking this site for your convenience!" though. Better to have it fail silently by pointing it to 127.0.0.2 or some such. Censorship works best when it is transparent to those being censored.
Ah, shit. You're supposed to pull up your pants too? No wonder nobody believed me.
I wrote a review on TireRack that got silently rejected last winter. The thing is, I wrote the review specifically to warn people that a particular set of "All-Season" tires was dangerously inadequate on even a light dusting of snow, despite the manufacturer's claims. Unfortunately, I suppose when you get up in the $250/tire range, sales trump safety.
And don't forget, a lot of the stuff that is technically counterfit really isn't- The brand name legal goods are made in a factory in China, they just keep the factory running a couple extra days and the goods are the exact same, just not exactly legal.
These are still counterfeit goods. It doesn't matter that they are made on the same assembly line, by the same workers to the same specs - they are unauthorized copies. A product doesn't have to be of inferior quality to be counterfeit.
If the guys at Ford snuck in the factory and made a couple extra cars in their free time, and sold them themselves, are the cars counterfit?
Yes. See above.
On the other hand, I understand his reasoning behind the remarks: If you promote something, and it still goes wrong, people will try to blame it on you.
I'm sure that's part of it, but eBay and its officers are also smart enough not to piss off an important business partner by publicly endorsing competing products. eBay runs their front-end webservers on Windows infrastructure.
when I get up in the morning I'm likely to be thinking about how amazing it is that my alarm clock just "knows" when to go off
That's funny - I'm usually thinking about how wonderful everything was *until* the alarm went off. Then I wonder whether I really need to go to work that day. And then I wonder why I can't ever answer that last with a "no".
China is supposedly worse
Ummmm... Hong Kong is part of China now.
Sorry to see that you got modded down, but I too lament the passing of the album era. While we generally consider the artistic unit in music to be the song, in many cases the album itself is also an artistic creation.
The obvious example is the concept album - imagine a world in which Pink Floyd's The Wall (or the Who's Tommy, or Rush's 2112, or Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime)existed only as a collection of individual tracks distributed independently of each other. While the songs from these albums certainly are capable of standing alone, their inclusion in albums of conceptually related material gives them additional meaning, and adds context that allows them collectively, as an album, to be greater than than the sum of the individual parts.
Even ignoring concept albums for the moment, track order can have a significant effect on the mood of an album, and add continuity that otherwise would be lacking. Try taking a familiar album and playing it in shuffle mode sometime - the songs are still familiar, but it feels completely different.
Ah. You want Voyeurweb then.