AFAIU, you can't counter-countersue. A countersuit is named along with the suit, and both are tried in the same court at the same time. You can add "frivilous lawsuit" to any suit without fear, and should, since if you don't you forfeit you ability to sue this way (you can't at the end of a trial in your favor say to the judge, oh, I have these claims can you look at them).
Also, you don't have to prove malicious intent. Actually, since it is civil court, you don't have to prove anything. However, a frivilous lawsuit is different from a malicious one. All you have to do is show that there are unreasonable claims in the suit with respect to the law, and it actually isn't that hard to show in the cases where it is appropriate.
For example, the people who wrote the original messages wouldn't be able to do it (probably), since they said things and them saying things is reasonably part of a claim for slander (even if it turns out that their statements weren't slander). But the people who were sued because they had advertisements for the legal fund for the defense, well, they could easily counter sue because there is no reasonable claim w.r.t. law regarding getting support for a legal fund. You could have these ads for the "shoe bomber's" legal fund and there's no legal action someone can take against you.
In addition, you can pull in the fact that the other suits were filed as support for your position. I suspect the google team will do this.
drugs stay in your system for hours to days to even longer
First of all, it isn't very common for drugs to last longer than the few hours they are being used. "Drug" tests don't detect the drug itself because it invariably is out of the system within hours. Instead, it testest for metabolites, the result of the chemical reaction of the drug in your body as it processes it (different drugs are processed in different ways for different reasons). Metabolites don't cause a person to "be high" or behave awkwardly.
Second of all, do you know what happens when people come to work drunk and they cause accidents (or even if they don't). If you guessed "they get fired" then you'd be right. The same thing should apply to drug users (unless, I suppose, they are the societally accepted drugs, like Prozac, Xanax, or nicotine), but going back to what I actually said, none of this applies to people chosing to do something with their own bodies in their spare time.
No example you can come up with to say that people should serve jail time for choosing the substances they use with their bodies can logically or medically mesh with the legality of alcohol and nicotine. If you have a whole arguement and feel that peole should not be allowed to use those substances (except possibly by prescription), then I understand your point of view, and feel it is consitent, but just differs from my own belief that a person's body and spare time is their own.
Pet Warehouse should sue for trademark infringement. It is pretty obvious that a) consumers are getting confused between the two names b) the owner of petswarehouse is taking actions that could harm the reputation of Pet Warehouse as a result of that confusion.
DUIs, I can see: you are wrecklessly endangering those around you. But drug convictions? It's bad enough that people serve jail time (and substantial time at that) for choosing what they do in their spare time, but to force them into performing sex acts on uptight assholes is pretty extreme punishment for the "crime".
True. One thing that does add some balance to the system is that you can counter sue for frivilous lawsuits. I'm surprised that many people have not countersued this person into submission.
IIRC Rise of the Triad was doomlike in that the enemys were flat bitmaps that changed based on your position. Plus, I also seem to recall being able to look up and down (unlike doom) but there was an odd warping to the view (although I may be recalling this from Duke Nukem). One more thing that may have contributed to your dizziness was the gait of the player while walking: it's been documented that the bobbing that doom did leads to motion sickness when wearing imersive goggles because you yourself aren't bobbing up and down. Regardless, I don't think it was a good game to try out.
I had a pair of V-IOpener googles in 1997 (still have em but don't have the PC converter anymore). They were pretty badass, and the best game to play was Descent, as it had fluid movement, true 3D, and a natvie mode for the VIOs that would use the head tracker as well.
The platform they are thinking of jumping to probably more assembler junkies than the one they are on now. I also feel most application developers who have products on both mac and windows (or other x86) would prefer the mac to be on x86 because endianess issues go away. Such a move might actually bring more developers to them, who previously didn't want to do a large reengineering of their systems for endianess and were on Windows because of larger market share.
I don't think this switch would be like previous ones.
I've heard of this problem. We did load one project up to about 30G to see what would happen. The famed corruption didn't occur, but it became REEEEEEEALY slow. There weren't a lot of files (my current project has more), just a bunch of big ones. I do like the fact that CVS has each file with it's own database. Not only is it more fault resistant, but it is easy to restructure if you have shell access to the machine.
BUT, corruption of the db isn't a serious problem because, even with CVS, you should be backing the files up. I guess if it corrupted regularily, that would be a pain.
We use soursesafe here and it's not as bad as that. There is still a command line version of sourcesafe and there are still unix versions (even linux). You can easily check in 100 files in the GUI with the standard CUI shift or ctrl clicking. Although the filtering isn't nearly as good as WinCVS, you can find the files checked out to you.
Sourcesafe is usable without getting in the way. Free products like WinCVS are better in most cases (SourceSafe does have one interesting feature that the project can have directories scattered around your hard drive, rather than a strict tree structure. I've never used it, and I think that NTFS symbolic links would be able to achieve this, but it's still the feature that SourceSafe has that I haven't seen in other GUI tools), but having to use it has only been a minor irritation (why does it make directories uppercase when you add them? why does it add all the files inside the dir, forcing me to remove the ones I don't want, and then going to the filesystem to attrib them back to writeable?). In day-to-day use it's only a little lacking.
What happened to the old and proven Unix approach of "Do only one thing, but do it well!"?
This philosphy worked well with command line utilities because, via the shell, they could be piped or ``ed or a million other things together to do some impressive things. It was essentially the difference between giving you the API to do exactly what you wanted and giving you a full application that kind of did what you wanted but not the way you wanted.
But in the GUI world, there isn't any piping metaphor because output is nonstandard. Because of this you also can't `` it. So there's no real way to pull little applications together in an easy fashion.
I disagree with the other poster's assessment of Emacs (and I personally don't use it, prefering vi). While it does a lot of stuff as it's base, you can't count all of the things it does as part of emacs. Emacs is an editor that can run lisp scripts. It's the lisp scripts that add the functionality, and so it does still fit into the doing a minimal amount of things well, IMO.
What I speak isn't FUD, and they aren't just technical issues. They are technical issues arising from legal limitations. The FCC doesn't just allow anyone to broadcast in these bands at whatever power level they want, these are public bands for use by the public.
Specifically, FCC Part 15.247 provides details on limitations of EIRP (equivalent isotropically radiated power). EIRP represents the total effective transmit power of the radio, including gains that the antenna provides and losses from the antenna cable. You must take all of these into account when calculating the EIRP for a specific radio. With directional antennea
I would be very pissed if a few people decided to set up a giant omnidirectional tx/rx and flooded my channels to the point that I couldn't use them. I understand conflicts with my neighbours, but I wouldn't tolerate it from someone 1km away (let alone 20). In addition, you have to consider the bleed you may get into spectrum ranges outside the public band.
Yes, it would be great if we all had nearly free, ubiquitous wireless access, but flooding the 2400-2483.5 MHz isn't the way to do it. I can guarntee this: it will happen eventually, but not right now. Give it 10-20 years and other bands will be allocated for this.
We use RedHat at work and I used it at home in 2000, and I'm really not a big fan. I figured I'd give Mandrake a shot since it is highly praised here. I'm still concerned about Gentoo. I could see myself using it for a server, but I'd have to hear more about it for a desktop. I want something that will detect my printer, and use a USB mouse, and setup sound without much thinking, which I understand Mandrake does (except the sound part sometimes. Wil isn't the only one I know who had problems with it).
I don't really have a problem with RedHat as a business. I actually really like them since they support the cygwin project (postgresql for win2k, can't beat that with a stick). I just prefer Debian for my server system, and want to try others.
Those are with directional antenna on the AP and the client. It's not a replacement for a cell phone unless you have a way to get the AP to lock onto your position. To get cell phone funtionality, the AP has to at least be omnidirectional, and for practical purposes the phone should be too.
However, I can see a good product would be an 802.11b VOIP phone that falls back to other cellular networks when unable to access an AP. This way, when you get signal, all your cell phone hours belong to you. You can just get a low hour plan to use in emergencies.
A VOIP system that would accept incoming calls and forward them on to your cell number would be good too
Mandrake is definitely going to be the next distro I try. I've been very pleased with Debian on my server, but I now have a spare desktop, and once I get a hard drive for it (it moved into the new computer), I'm going to give Mandrake a shot.
I actually used to take all of my course notes on grafitti. One of the advantages I found it had over standard paper is that you didn't have to look down in order to write.
Once you learn it, you can get really fast at it. I am faster with a thumboard (though haven't had enough experience to become a touch typist), but grafitti is hardly "braindead".
Possibly something that high, but you can get 233MHz librettos pretty regularily on ebay for under $250, and they are a palmtop size. Note that 233MHz w/ 64M of RAM is much more powerful than the current Palms, and you can run 98 etc on those palmtops, so there's no real shortage of apps.
Still, Palms do have an advantage in that they are easier to use than palmtops. When you take something that is designed to be bigger and cram it down, it doesn't work as well for what you are using it for as something designed to be that size. (I've used both libretto's and palms/visors before, and unless it's an L2+, I'd prefer a high end palm. I prefer an L5 to my current laptop). Plus, while the libretto batteries are impressive (10 hours charge with normal use, 13 hours max), they don't hold a candle to the battery life of a palm.
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1) backporting (or if you prefer a windows term, service packs)
2) the lame part is that you have to pay to not have to pay for your logical processors. linux doesn't have these lisensing issues.
I'm glad to see they are continuing their policies on advertisements here on /.
You would think a slashvertiser would strengthen their site before getting a link to their front page put up, though.
AFAIU, you can't counter-countersue. A countersuit is named along with the suit, and both are tried in the same court at the same time. You can add "frivilous lawsuit" to any suit without fear, and should, since if you don't you forfeit you ability to sue this way (you can't at the end of a trial in your favor say to the judge, oh, I have these claims can you look at them).
Also, you don't have to prove malicious intent. Actually, since it is civil court, you don't have to prove anything. However, a frivilous lawsuit is different from a malicious one. All you have to do is show that there are unreasonable claims in the suit with respect to the law, and it actually isn't that hard to show in the cases where it is appropriate.
For example, the people who wrote the original messages wouldn't be able to do it (probably), since they said things and them saying things is reasonably part of a claim for slander (even if it turns out that their statements weren't slander). But the people who were sued because they had advertisements for the legal fund for the defense, well, they could easily counter sue because there is no reasonable claim w.r.t. law regarding getting support for a legal fund. You could have these ads for the "shoe bomber's" legal fund and there's no legal action someone can take against you.
In addition, you can pull in the fact that the other suits were filed as support for your position. I suspect the google team will do this.
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drugs stay in your system for hours to days to even longer
First of all, it isn't very common for drugs to last longer than the few hours they are being used. "Drug" tests don't detect the drug itself because it invariably is out of the system within hours. Instead, it testest for metabolites, the result of the chemical reaction of the drug in your body as it processes it (different drugs are processed in different ways for different reasons). Metabolites don't cause a person to "be high" or behave awkwardly.
Second of all, do you know what happens when people come to work drunk and they cause accidents (or even if they don't). If you guessed "they get fired" then you'd be right. The same thing should apply to drug users (unless, I suppose, they are the societally accepted drugs, like Prozac, Xanax, or nicotine), but going back to what I actually said, none of this applies to people chosing to do something with their own bodies in their spare time.
No example you can come up with to say that people should serve jail time for choosing the substances they use with their bodies can logically or medically mesh with the legality of alcohol and nicotine. If you have a whole arguement and feel that peole should not be allowed to use those substances (except possibly by prescription), then I understand your point of view, and feel it is consitent, but just differs from my own belief that a person's body and spare time is their own.
I wonder if there really are bots crawling here. Only one way to find out:
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Pet Warehouse should sue for trademark infringement. It is pretty obvious that
a) consumers are getting confused between the two names
b) the owner of petswarehouse is taking actions that could harm the reputation of Pet Warehouse as a result of that confusion.
The RIAA doesn't care. They buy the laws that allow them to file the suits.
We also need laws to deal with idiotic laws. Oh wait, we already have those amendments to the constitution.
DUIs, I can see: you are wrecklessly endangering those around you. But drug convictions? It's bad enough that people serve jail time (and substantial time at that) for choosing what they do in their spare time, but to force them into performing sex acts on uptight assholes is pretty extreme punishment for the "crime".
True. One thing that does add some balance to the system is that you can counter sue for frivilous lawsuits. I'm surprised that many people have not countersued this person into submission.
IIRC Rise of the Triad was doomlike in that the enemys were flat bitmaps that changed based on your position. Plus, I also seem to recall being able to look up and down (unlike doom) but there was an odd warping to the view (although I may be recalling this from Duke Nukem). One more thing that may have contributed to your dizziness was the gait of the player while walking: it's been documented that the bobbing that doom did leads to motion sickness when wearing imersive goggles because you yourself aren't bobbing up and down. Regardless, I don't think it was a good game to try out.
I had a pair of V-IOpener googles in 1997 (still have em but don't have the PC converter anymore). They were pretty badass, and the best game to play was Descent, as it had fluid movement, true 3D, and a natvie mode for the VIOs that would use the head tracker as well.
It works because there is a person on the TV telling them it's a great picture.
because of the yi.org, I'm guessing he doesn't have a choice. I haven't found a free dns service that allows you to have more than a third level domain (so no www.foo.yi.org, just foo.yi.org).
Would less than 10 seconds of silence be fair use?
The platform they are thinking of jumping to probably more assembler junkies than the one they are on now. I also feel most application developers who have products on both mac and windows (or other x86) would prefer the mac to be on x86 because endianess issues go away. Such a move might actually bring more developers to them, who previously didn't want to do a large reengineering of their systems for endianess and were on Windows because of larger market share.
I don't think this switch would be like previous ones.
I've heard of this problem. We did load one project up to about 30G to see what would happen. The famed corruption didn't occur, but it became REEEEEEEALY slow. There weren't a lot of files (my current project has more), just a bunch of big ones. I do like the fact that CVS has each file with it's own database. Not only is it more fault resistant, but it is easy to restructure if you have shell access to the machine.
BUT, corruption of the db isn't a serious problem because, even with CVS, you should be backing the files up. I guess if it corrupted regularily, that would be a pain.
We use soursesafe here and it's not as bad as that. There is still a command line version of sourcesafe and there are still unix versions (even linux). You can easily check in 100 files in the GUI with the standard CUI shift or ctrl clicking. Although the filtering isn't nearly as good as WinCVS, you can find the files checked out to you.
Sourcesafe is usable without getting in the way. Free products like WinCVS are better in most cases (SourceSafe does have one interesting feature that the project can have directories scattered around your hard drive, rather than a strict tree structure. I've never used it, and I think that NTFS symbolic links would be able to achieve this, but it's still the feature that SourceSafe has that I haven't seen in other GUI tools), but having to use it has only been a minor irritation (why does it make directories uppercase when you add them? why does it add all the files inside the dir, forcing me to remove the ones I don't want, and then going to the filesystem to attrib them back to writeable?). In day-to-day use it's only a little lacking.
How is taking mony from MicroSoft a bad thing. It's like not spending money on their products, but even more so.
The rules for H1-Bs changed last year. You can now switch employers without reapplying.
What happened to the old and proven Unix approach of "Do only one thing, but do it well!"?
This philosphy worked well with command line utilities because, via the shell, they could be piped or ``ed or a million other things together to do some impressive things. It was essentially the difference between giving you the API to do exactly what you wanted and giving you a full application that kind of did what you wanted but not the way you wanted.
But in the GUI world, there isn't any piping metaphor because output is nonstandard. Because of this you also can't `` it. So there's no real way to pull little applications together in an easy fashion.
I disagree with the other poster's assessment of Emacs (and I personally don't use it, prefering vi). While it does a lot of stuff as it's base, you can't count all of the things it does as part of emacs. Emacs is an editor that can run lisp scripts. It's the lisp scripts that add the functionality, and so it does still fit into the doing a minimal amount of things well, IMO.
What I speak isn't FUD, and they aren't just technical issues. They are technical issues arising from legal limitations. The FCC doesn't just allow anyone to broadcast in these bands at whatever power level they want, these are public bands for use by the public.
Specifically, FCC Part 15.247 provides details on limitations of EIRP (equivalent isotropically radiated power). EIRP represents the total effective transmit power of the radio, including gains that the antenna provides and losses from the antenna cable. You must take all of these into account when calculating the EIRP for a specific radio. With directional antennea
I would be very pissed if a few people decided to set up a giant omnidirectional tx/rx and flooded my channels to the point that I couldn't use them. I understand conflicts with my neighbours, but I wouldn't tolerate it from someone 1km away (let alone 20). In addition, you have to consider the bleed you may get into spectrum ranges outside the public band.
Yes, it would be great if we all had nearly free, ubiquitous wireless access, but flooding the 2400-2483.5 MHz isn't the way to do it. I can guarntee this: it will happen eventually, but not right now. Give it 10-20 years and other bands will be allocated for this.
We use RedHat at work and I used it at home in 2000, and I'm really not a big fan. I figured I'd give Mandrake a shot since it is highly praised here. I'm still concerned about Gentoo. I could see myself using it for a server, but I'd have to hear more about it for a desktop. I want something that will detect my printer, and use a USB mouse, and setup sound without much thinking, which I understand Mandrake does (except the sound part sometimes. Wil isn't the only one I know who had problems with it).
I don't really have a problem with RedHat as a business. I actually really like them since they support the cygwin project (postgresql for win2k, can't beat that with a stick). I just prefer Debian for my server system, and want to try others.
Those are with directional antenna on the AP and the client. It's not a replacement for a cell phone unless you have a way to get the AP to lock onto your position. To get cell phone funtionality, the AP has to at least be omnidirectional, and for practical purposes the phone should be too.
However, I can see a good product would be an 802.11b VOIP phone that falls back to other cellular networks when unable to access an AP. This way, when you get signal, all your cell phone hours belong to you. You can just get a low hour plan to use in emergencies.
A VOIP system that would accept incoming calls and forward them on to your cell number would be good too
Mandrake is definitely going to be the next distro I try. I've been very pleased with Debian on my server, but I now have a spare desktop, and once I get a hard drive for it (it moved into the new computer), I'm going to give Mandrake a shot.
I actually used to take all of my course notes on grafitti. One of the advantages I found it had over standard paper is that you didn't have to look down in order to write.
Once you learn it, you can get really fast at it. I am faster with a thumboard (though haven't had enough experience to become a touch typist), but grafitti is hardly "braindead".
Possibly something that high, but you can get 233MHz librettos pretty regularily on ebay for under $250, and they are a palmtop size. Note that 233MHz w/ 64M of RAM is much more powerful than the current Palms, and you can run 98 etc on those palmtops, so there's no real shortage of apps.
Still, Palms do have an advantage in that they are easier to use than palmtops. When you take something that is designed to be bigger and cram it down, it doesn't work as well for what you are using it for as something designed to be that size. (I've used both libretto's and palms/visors before, and unless it's an L2+, I'd prefer a high end palm. I prefer an L5 to my current laptop). Plus, while the libretto batteries are impressive (10 hours charge with normal use, 13 hours max), they don't hold a candle to the battery life of a palm.