I'm curious how this could be a class-action suit. I thought that's when a huge group of people band together to fight a company. This looks like Blockbuster v. Netflix.
It sounds to me like you'd have to punch the boss twice to get fired, so a Level 1 is probably like using the photocopier as an ass camera....and if you burned the building down, even if you weren't caught, you'd probably not have a job to worry about.
(Yea, probably just explaining a joke...but it's not often one gets to say 'ass camera'.)
That's why I'm wondering. Sure, Google's got a ginormous war chest that Perfect 10 is drooling over... But the problem is Google's got a ginormous war chest that they can spend on lawyers.
Plus, since Google is acting as an intermediate, it's hardly a sure fire win. While original violaters would be a (relative) slam dunk, Google can pull tricks out of their magic bag...the DMCA safe harbor provision (even if it doesn't directly apply; i wouldn't put them past obfuscation), talk about showing good faith and just plain raise doubt.
As evident by round 1: Perfect 10 has yet to collect any damages yet...
Not the way I was taught. Always ask for a photo ID for a transaction that doesn't involve cash. (Check and credit...with the DL# being written on the check.)
np, Perfect 10 just has to send DMCA removal requests to the original sites...which they can easily find with Google image search.
What I'm wondering is why go after the intermediate? Google's providing them a wealth of information on infringers. Shut down the middleman you lose your path to the top. (bottom?) Seems to me Perfect 10's just (a) lazy and (b) looking for a quick buck. Go after the REAL infringers already.
For smaller shops that have to go through the 800 number, calling them is usually a huge waste of time unless they have no one on staff who knows anything about computers.
I have to deal with Dell on a regular basis. Not because I know jack about computers, but because I have to go through them to get parts under warranty (or worse, not under warranty and proprietary). Their crap is ALWAYS breaking. This year we're up to at least 4 monitors, 3 hard drives, some RAM, laptop battery, laptop motherboard, and a rack mounted 8-tape autochanger / backup device (which was barely 4 months old when it shuffled off).
Fortunatly, I've often troubleshooted the entire script beforehand so it usually goes "yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, still broken." "ok, we'll ship out a replacement part." "excellent." and done.
I don't believe Xerox bothered to file patents. The apocryphal story about the mouse is, when the upper eschelon was shown the mouse, they went "We're a document company," and scrubbed it.
Just because there's a car, with bootleg DVDs in the trunk, in a full parking lot doesn't mean the entire parking lot of cars gets impounded. You could be one of the other cars.
There's a difference between saying "There are 57 card carrying Communists in the Department of Defense!" on national television and "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are suspected of being Soviet spies because of this evidence."
Just because there's a shark in a lake filled with trout doesn't mean you drain the lake to kill the shark. You could be one of the trout.
But, being required to use it if you're a govt. employee? Weird.
Not really. It's simply policy. Governments have hundreds of policies that need to be followed, this is just another one. The reason it gets coverage is of what it means. It wouldn't do to have individual departments, or worse, individual people, decide what file format to use.
It's like a business. A business will dictate the use of one format in order to streamline operations; it wouldn't make sense to have one branch use Word while another used WordPerfect and so on.
Forced adoption is simply just keeping consistancy.
I do have to agree that religions, on the whole, tend to shirk responsibility for detrimental actions they have on some people. Perhaps people need a background check to join a religion like they do for buying guns...
But I still think religion, as portrayed, is taking more damage than it deserves. What we need are the moderates who follow religions to come out and denounce the radicals rather than maintain silence about it....I can dream, at least...
Cause he probably has one sickening golden parachute...like every other CEO at a big company. (Home Depot anyone?) Cheaper to throw him in a closet than fire him I wager.
I would think the biggest problem is if Dell includes Wine, then people will assume Dell supports it. Even if, in big 72 point Impact red letters, it says "Dell does not support Wine" they'll still get thousands of calls on it.
I can't say I blame them either, considering how hard it is for me to get Dell staff to support their own hardware when I call them.
What I've noticed is ALL religion gets shoved in a corner, but the only ones we really hear about are the nutjobs who get put on TV...because they get the ratings (or elected to public office).
Churches act as community centers, they help people out, and if you believe in the spirit of whatever religion you follow (rather than the letter), you're probably pretty well adjusted. It's just this section of the population gets shouted over by the Haggards, et. al., and don't make for good copy.
Proposition B: A high proportion of the human race, if you print an orange dot in a newspaper and tell them touching it will make their dreams come true, will take it *very seriously indeed*.
I think you'll agree the latter proposition is simply ludicrous
Considering the multitude of people who believe the moon was never landed on, or even that the UK dead fairy hoax is real ( http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/deadfairy.asp ), I find proposition B is the more logical one.
Fact is, most people WANT to believe. UFOs, supernatural events, miracles, they go by many names but it's difficult to find people who don't believe in something along those lines.
but this manual concentration on mileage is probably as distracting as talking on a cell phone.
I'd disagree...I do this regularly and it's second nature to me. I guess the difference is that I'm not concentrating about it; I've made this driving style natural. Heck, I don't just plan gas and braking in advance, but I can read other cars and judge their movements like lane changes pretty accurately.
If I switched to a race to the red and focused more on closing distance, I'd probably cause an accident. I'm not used to it in the slightest. The few times I try, when I'm tailgating or trying to get through traffic, I start second guessing distances and speeds and end up overcompensating caution.
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By giving them the top Grammy awards? (Best record, song AND album)
I'm curious how this could be a class-action suit. I thought that's when a huge group of people band together to fight a company. This looks like Blockbuster v. Netflix.
And at one time in the not too distant past 'google' was just a one with a lot of zeros after it...
It sounds to me like you'd have to punch the boss twice to get fired, so a Level 1 is probably like using the photocopier as an ass camera. ...and if you burned the building down, even if you weren't caught, you'd probably not have a job to worry about.
(Yea, probably just explaining a joke...but it's not often one gets to say 'ass camera'.)
That's why I'm wondering. Sure, Google's got a ginormous war chest that Perfect 10 is drooling over... But the problem is Google's got a ginormous war chest that they can spend on lawyers.
Plus, since Google is acting as an intermediate, it's hardly a sure fire win. While original violaters would be a (relative) slam dunk, Google can pull tricks out of their magic bag...the DMCA safe harbor provision (even if it doesn't directly apply; i wouldn't put them past obfuscation), talk about showing good faith and just plain raise doubt.
As evident by round 1: Perfect 10 has yet to collect any damages yet...
Not the way I was taught. Always ask for a photo ID for a transaction that doesn't involve cash. (Check and credit...with the DL# being written on the check.)
np, Perfect 10 just has to send DMCA removal requests to the original sites...which they can easily find with Google image search.
What I'm wondering is why go after the intermediate? Google's providing them a wealth of information on infringers. Shut down the middleman you lose your path to the top. (bottom?) Seems to me Perfect 10's just (a) lazy and (b) looking for a quick buck. Go after the REAL infringers already.
Well, that's just an exact quote from the original article. Should have put [sic] next to it at least...
Collecting items to progress doesn't make something an RPG...
You mean all those times I called Doom an RPG I was wrong?!
For smaller shops that have to go through the 800 number, calling them is usually a huge waste of time unless they have no one on staff who knows anything about computers.
I have to deal with Dell on a regular basis. Not because I know jack about computers, but because I have to go through them to get parts under warranty (or worse, not under warranty and proprietary). Their crap is ALWAYS breaking. This year we're up to at least 4 monitors, 3 hard drives, some RAM, laptop battery, laptop motherboard, and a rack mounted 8-tape autochanger / backup device (which was barely 4 months old when it shuffled off).
Fortunatly, I've often troubleshooted the entire script beforehand so it usually goes "yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, still broken." "ok, we'll ship out a replacement part." "excellent." and done.
This is Windows we're talking about though.
Sure, easy attack on Windows here, but I'd think given a couple months the odds are in the virus writer's favour.
I don't believe Xerox bothered to file patents. The apocryphal story about the mouse is, when the upper eschelon was shown the mouse, they went "We're a document company," and scrubbed it.
Just because there's a car, with bootleg DVDs in the trunk, in a full parking lot doesn't mean the entire parking lot of cars gets impounded. You could be one of the other cars.
I thought blueprints fell under copyright...
There's a difference between saying "There are 57 card carrying Communists in the Department of Defense!" on national television and "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are suspected of being Soviet spies because of this evidence."
Just because there's a shark in a lake filled with trout doesn't mean you drain the lake to kill the shark. You could be one of the trout.
But, being required to use it if you're a govt. employee? Weird.
Not really. It's simply policy. Governments have hundreds of policies that need to be followed, this is just another one. The reason it gets coverage is of what it means. It wouldn't do to have individual departments, or worse, individual people, decide what file format to use.
It's like a business. A business will dictate the use of one format in order to streamline operations; it wouldn't make sense to have one branch use Word while another used WordPerfect and so on.
Forced adoption is simply just keeping consistancy.
If only a journalist did that with Joseph McCarthy back in the 50s...
First thing that popped in my head when I saw that headline, "There are exactly 57 members of the Communist Party in the Department of Defense!"
Microsoft: give us patent numbers or it's not realistic. Verizon has patent numbers...NTP has patent numbers...where are yours??
even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
That might have been true when most clocks used hands, but in the digital age a stopped clock is just off...
I do have to agree that religions, on the whole, tend to shirk responsibility for detrimental actions they have on some people. Perhaps people need a background check to join a religion like they do for buying guns...
...I can dream, at least...
But I still think religion, as portrayed, is taking more damage than it deserves. What we need are the moderates who follow religions to come out and denounce the radicals rather than maintain silence about it.
Cause he probably has one sickening golden parachute...like every other CEO at a big company. (Home Depot anyone?) Cheaper to throw him in a closet than fire him I wager.
They're just taking a page from Diebold v. Massachusettes...
I would think the biggest problem is if Dell includes Wine, then people will assume Dell supports it. Even if, in big 72 point Impact red letters, it says "Dell does not support Wine" they'll still get thousands of calls on it.
I can't say I blame them either, considering how hard it is for me to get Dell staff to support their own hardware when I call them.
Wish I had mod points...
What I've noticed is ALL religion gets shoved in a corner, but the only ones we really hear about are the nutjobs who get put on TV...because they get the ratings (or elected to public office).
Churches act as community centers, they help people out, and if you believe in the spirit of whatever religion you follow (rather than the letter), you're probably pretty well adjusted. It's just this section of the population gets shouted over by the Haggards, et. al., and don't make for good copy.
Proposition B: A high proportion of the human race, if you print an orange dot in a newspaper and tell them touching it will make their dreams come true, will take it *very seriously indeed*.
p ), I find proposition B is the more logical one.
I think you'll agree the latter proposition is simply ludicrous
Considering the multitude of people who believe the moon was never landed on, or even that the UK dead fairy hoax is real ( http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/deadfairy.as
Fact is, most people WANT to believe. UFOs, supernatural events, miracles, they go by many names but it's difficult to find people who don't believe in something along those lines.
but this manual concentration on mileage is probably as distracting as talking on a cell phone.
I'd disagree...I do this regularly and it's second nature to me. I guess the difference is that I'm not concentrating about it; I've made this driving style natural. Heck, I don't just plan gas and braking in advance, but I can read other cars and judge their movements like lane changes pretty accurately.
If I switched to a race to the red and focused more on closing distance, I'd probably cause an accident. I'm not used to it in the slightest. The few times I try, when I'm tailgating or trying to get through traffic, I start second guessing distances and speeds and end up overcompensating caution.