... and the assertion that Manning sought out an attention-whore loser like Lamo to "confess" to is absurd. Most likely he contacted Poulson who fobbed him off on Lamo as a sort of firewall.
The chat logs are important because they contain the only evidence that Manning did anything at all. And Lamo got to play with them before anyone else saw them.
Remember? And the Tea Party dipshits hadn't even gotten started then. If you don't think this clown is electable, you haven't spent enough time in the flyover states.
Hours of entertainment to be had on that page about Dell. Newegg is just plain awesome.
Dell consumer desktops have always been crap. I bought two Dimension 4600s new on eBay for $300 each a few years ago, and they work great... because I replaced the power supplies, disk drives and hard drives and added decent graphics and sound cards. And put Linux on them.
I suspect that Dell and MS have had a symbiotic relationship for years where people blame Windows for a lot of things that are actually Dell's lousy quality control and vice versa.
gpointing-device-settings will supposedly let you disable the touchpad in Gnome, but I have problems making the settings stick
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad and two desktop PCs, on both of which I use the original IBM-branded Ultranav short-form keyboards (PS/2). Supposedly these are of slightly better build quality than the Lenovo Ultranav boards and can easily be found on eBay. But having one without a touchpad would be nice.
I worked at a Wall St. law firm for nearly 20 years (administration, not legal), and most of our lawyers lacked any identifiable skill, and definitely even a trace of analytical or verbal skills. They were drudges in the worst sense of the word -- hacks who had to go through six drafts of a client memo because they were to stupid to write legibly or have someone check their grammar. Of course, they were never allowed to go to court -- we had show-pony partners for that.
d) The hospital for not only allowing internet access from a computer with personally identifiable information, but for also allowing the spyware to get installed.
Bingo. They failed to take steps a reasonably prudent person would have taken to protect patient confidentiality under Federal law. Spyware installation via email is not exactly news.
Google know just where to reach me -- they sent me notices about my own books directly AND though my publishers. The publisher of my parents' books also knows where I am, and they are legally required to forward all legal notices.
Too late, my spotty little friend. Tell me, should my son be allowed to inherit the business I started, or should it be seized the day after my death and distributed to the masses? If I rent out my house, should he be allowed to collect that rent after I croak? What is so special about intellectual property?
The Authors Guild represents 8,000 writers (I used to be one of them). There are millions of "orphan" works still covered by US and international copyright law. The Guild has no standing to negotiate for anyone except their members.
Google has made absolutely ZERO attempt to ascertain the identity or whereabouts of the rightsholders of these "orphan" works. I'm one of them. I have been notified by Google about each of my in-print books (five in all), but NONE of my parents' books, even though they were published by HarperCollins, who used to send me royalty checks for those books and would no doubt be happy to tell Google how to reach me.
The fact that, in desperation, Google agrees to share the fruits of its theft does not make everything OK. They have no right to share what was never theirs in the first place. And the Authors Guild are a bunch of useless whores who stand to make a pot of money off this rotten deal.
Uh, no, there are huge problems with this deal that have nothing to do with competition. If approved, the deal would modify US and intl. copyright law, subject rightsholders (many of whom have no knowledge of the deal and thus no opportunity to object) to compulsory licensing in perpetuity with no judicial recourse ("arbitration," anyone), and exempt Google from not just past copyright violations (the ostensible subject of the lawsuit) but all future ones as well.
It's theft, pure and simple, and Google's operating principle throughout has been "Try and stop us."
(I am a former longtime member of the Authors Guild, and I hold them even more responsible than Google for this outrageous deal.)
Wanna know how much money/time/energy Google has put into ascertaining whether the rightsholders of the "orphan" works they have scanned or want to scan are actually unreachable?
None. Nada. Zippo. They don't even claim to have made an effort. The settlement agreement makes such determination the duty of the "Books Rights Registry," an entity that does not yet, and may well never, exist.
What Google _has_ done is push the idea of millions of "orphan works" pining for freedom (next to Google ads, of course).
They have decided that one of my parents' books is an "orphan," scanned it, and put it online. They are wrong, but, then again, they never even looked for me or my siblings. They did, however send me a notice about my own books being in their sights. "I opted out," of course.
And make being "logged" require an affirmative opt-in by the user.
Good luck on getting Google to accept that. They refuse to make their behavioral tracking "opt-in," and make opting out way too complicated for the average schmuck.
I've gotten $3 per click on my sites on a good day. Of course, we all just take Google's word for the economics of Adsense -- they don't "do" auditing.
Yeah. This really isn't "click fraud" in the sense of defrauding Google through spurious clicks. The ads are real, the clicks are from real potential customers, it's just that Google is having to cough up a minuscule fraction of its revenue to the page owner -- the same commission it would pay if the search were run under a legitimate instance of the Adsense for Search api, which is to say.005% of SQUAT.
Stop the presses! Google's been robbed! Not really. Obviously, the taking over PCs bit is bad behavior, but gimme a break. It's actually a neat idea, Office-Spacian in its elegance.
They should rent them out to Google Books. They claim it's damn near impossible to find the copyright holders on millions of books (thus allowing them to claim them as "orphans"). It's an odd admission for a search company, but there it is.
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... and the assertion that Manning sought out an attention-whore loser like Lamo to "confess" to is absurd. Most likely he contacted Poulson who fobbed him off on Lamo as a sort of firewall.
The chat logs are important because they contain the only evidence that Manning did anything at all. And Lamo got to play with them before anyone else saw them.
Now you know why so many people think Ron Paul is cool. They don't click on the links.
"...so egregious that there is a huge public uprising...."
Are we still talking about the US? If so, don't hold your breath.
Remember? And the Tea Party dipshits hadn't even gotten started then. If you don't think this clown is electable, you haven't spent enough time in the flyover states.
In Ohio, most public libraries let you access the OED online from home if you have a library card.
... and there'd better not be any coffee stains or thumbprints on them!
Hours of entertainment to be had on that page about Dell. Newegg is just plain awesome.
Dell consumer desktops have always been crap. I bought two Dimension 4600s new on eBay for $300 each a few years ago, and they work great... because I replaced the power supplies, disk drives and hard drives and added decent graphics and sound cards. And put Linux on them.
I suspect that Dell and MS have had a symbiotic relationship for years where people blame Windows for a lot of things that are actually Dell's lousy quality control and vice versa.
gpointing-device-settings will supposedly let you disable the touchpad in Gnome, but I have problems making the settings stick
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad and two desktop PCs, on both of which I use the original IBM-branded Ultranav short-form keyboards (PS/2). Supposedly these are of slightly better build quality than the Lenovo Ultranav boards and can easily be found on eBay. But having one without a touchpad would be nice.
Yeah, because that's worked so well for everyone since (and including) Alexander the Great. Nobody wins in Afghanistan.
Been using the beta since Saturday, and this thing with the buttons is incredibly annoying.
Really. Of course he knows. He just wants a cut of Google's pie.
I worked at a Wall St. law firm for nearly 20 years (administration, not legal), and most of our lawyers lacked any identifiable skill, and definitely even a trace of analytical or verbal skills. They were drudges in the worst sense of the word -- hacks who had to go through six drafts of a client memo because they were to stupid to write legibly or have someone check their grammar. Of course, they were never allowed to go to court -- we had show-pony partners for that.
d) The hospital for not only allowing internet access from a computer with personally identifiable information, but for also allowing the spyware to get installed.
Bingo. They failed to take steps a reasonably prudent person would have taken to protect patient confidentiality under Federal law. Spyware installation via email is not exactly news.
Google know just where to reach me -- they sent me notices about my own books directly AND though my publishers. The publisher of my parents' books also knows where I am, and they are legally required to forward all legal notices.
Too late, my spotty little friend. Tell me, should my son be allowed to inherit the business I started, or should it be seized the day after my death and distributed to the masses? If I rent out my house, should he be allowed to collect that rent after I croak? What is so special about intellectual property?
The Authors Guild represents 8,000 writers (I used to be one of them). There are millions of "orphan" works still covered by US and international copyright law. The Guild has no standing to negotiate for anyone except their members.
Google has made absolutely ZERO attempt to ascertain the identity or whereabouts of the rightsholders of these "orphan" works. I'm one of them. I have been notified by Google about each of my in-print books (five in all), but NONE of my parents' books, even though they were published by HarperCollins, who used to send me royalty checks for those books and would no doubt be happy to tell Google how to reach me.
The fact that, in desperation, Google agrees to share the fruits of its theft does not make everything OK. They have no right to share what was never theirs in the first place. And the Authors Guild are a bunch of useless whores who stand to make a pot of money off this rotten deal.
Uh, no, there are huge problems with this deal that have nothing to do with competition. If approved, the deal would modify US and intl. copyright law, subject rightsholders (many of whom have no knowledge of the deal and thus no opportunity to object) to compulsory licensing in perpetuity with no judicial recourse ("arbitration," anyone), and exempt Google from not just past copyright violations (the ostensible subject of the lawsuit) but all future ones as well.
It's theft, pure and simple, and Google's operating principle throughout has been "Try and stop us."
(I am a former longtime member of the Authors Guild, and I hold them even more responsible than Google for this outrageous deal.)
Wanna know how much money/time/energy Google has put into ascertaining whether the rightsholders of the "orphan" works they have scanned or want to scan are actually unreachable?
None. Nada. Zippo. They don't even claim to have made an effort. The settlement agreement makes such determination the duty of the "Books Rights Registry," an entity that does not yet, and may well never, exist.
What Google _has_ done is push the idea of millions of "orphan works" pining for freedom (next to Google ads, of course).
They have decided that one of my parents' books is an "orphan," scanned it, and put it online. They are wrong, but, then again, they never even looked for me or my siblings. They did, however send me a notice about my own books being in their sights. "I opted out," of course.
just by not paying my Verizon bill.
C'mon, mod this up. Well done.
And make being "logged" require an affirmative opt-in by the user.
Good luck on getting Google to accept that. They refuse to make their behavioral tracking "opt-in," and make opting out way too complicated for the average schmuck.
I've gotten $3 per click on my sites on a good day. Of course, we all just take Google's word for the economics of Adsense -- they don't "do" auditing.
Yeah. This really isn't "click fraud" in the sense of defrauding Google through spurious clicks. The ads are real, the clicks are from real potential customers, it's just that Google is having to cough up a minuscule fraction of its revenue to the page owner -- the same commission it would pay if the search were run under a legitimate instance of the Adsense for Search api, which is to say .005% of SQUAT.
Stop the presses! Google's been robbed! Not really. Obviously, the taking over PCs bit is bad behavior, but gimme a break. It's actually a neat idea, Office-Spacian in its elegance.
I would suggest:
1) Web page explaining what happened and collecting donations to hire a private investigator.
2) Put Principal & his editor-buddy under a microscope.
3) Post results.
They should rent them out to Google Books. They claim it's damn near impossible to find the copyright holders on millions of books (thus allowing them to claim them as "orphans"). It's an odd admission for a search company, but there it is.