I recently uninstalled adblock because it was preventing my tablet from operating online at all. I was one of hundreds suffering this bug, so it wouldn't surprise me if that were the reason for the removal. I do find it interesting that everyone jumped onto the "It's about advertising" bandwagon.
They do this because it is a time honored way of dealing with "Threats to internal security." It's something used against many threats like the Black Panthers and AIM. Infiltrate peaceful/passive group that has captured the attention of the powers that be, identify a fringe member willing to do violence, fund and aid that member, "capture" that member, blame the target group. PR success! Used to be that the media would approach the subject with a somewhat "Suuuuure, the FED made them do it, you paranoid nutbag" attitude, but that is changing. Has a very Sun-Tzu like feeling to it though, doesn't it.
I'm going to guess, before RTFA, that the photographer catches the copyright/IP suit, and that the other two catch libel suits. They're not in trouble for using the images so much as attaching her identity, thru the token of her face, to homosexuality and cheating on her husband.
When I first saw this commercial I thought it was a sad grab at a technology that's been in use for decades. Now I believe that the ad agency didn't realize that the magnetic breaking used in roller coasters was the inspiration for regenerative breaking.
"Hi, Northface CEO here. Please stop making money by making fun of me and my company."?
What are the SF guys going to say? "Oh, sorry, making millions IS a bad idea. We'll just go back to that job we hate."? I know someone who makes parody t-shirts and items and he attempts to provoke this kind of suit just for the attention, it increases sales and gives him something else to point at and say "Oh, Yeah, they deserve my mocking. look at what A$$#@!3$ they are." If he got that call, he'd find some way to bait them just before hanging up on them.
Is Network Solutions their host or their register? If they're the host, this is very bad news, but if they're just the register, move your domain to another register and continue operations as normal within 24 hours. Heck, tell a few sites your IP number and have the traffic come in without the aid of the "name shortcut" industry.
In most cases you can get another account at another provider in a day or two and be up and running again, even if they were your host.
I can remember when you managed your own name shortcuts and DNS was for those folks who couldn't use their hosts file. Now get off my lawn, you punk kids.
My uncle, who is also a mountain climber, climbs mountains and takes photos. Often dangling from a ledge. He uses film and offers a limited run of prints for sale. There's no animosity for people who borrow electronic copies of the pictures, because what he's selling isn't an 'image', but an actual physical printing of that image. He does business over the internet, and ships people their art in a box.
It's possible to make money as a film and apature photographer, as long as you allow for the stock image people and the ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MARKET they're in. In much the same way that artists in the Letter Press Card arena don't sell LaserJet ink. I'd even argue that StockPhoto sites have put the ART back into picture taking and taken over the commodity-style work.
What's happening here is that the banks are communicating with each other. The messages go like this;
Bank A:
"Hey I got a check #, routing #, and account. It's for $1.99. That account have the money in it?"
Bank B:
"Yeah, it's O.K. to send that check. The money is here."
Then that night the accounting is done and funds are 'transfered'. That's called 'clearing' and it's always held that meaning. All transactions happen like this. It's a paradigm of trust that allows banking to work at all the way most people like it to. Without this trust electronic banking cannot happen, no debit cards, no credit cards, and checks would take days to clear with Check21 and weeks without it. The entire banking system would collapse and people would all go back to cash.
Now HERE'S where the scam comes in.... The account holder reviews the check record and reports the check as a fraud. The accounting is reversed and the money is transfered back. Check21 and electronic banking is a soft patch that allows this abuse of trust, this fraud, to get detected faster for the larger accounts-holders, reducing it's impact by getting a fraud return processed in just a day. The scam isn't in a clearing time error, but in the difference between clearing and detecting a fraud.
You want a real screaming nightmare, investigate how banks "generate wealth". It's two guys passing a dollar back and forth and every time they do, a dime falls unto the floor. Where does the dime come from? They IMAGINE it into being real.
1) What law EXACTLY does _downloading_ violate? Oh yeah, none. No crime = no time.
2) There are 10,000 places to aquire an mp3, and it's not my duty to verify that they are legal. That's the rights-holders job. If a source is authorized to offer a song online, then I'm in the clear for downloading it. These cases do not go to court for that very reason. Feel free to point me to a winning court case involving only downloading and NO distribution. Good luck with that.
A UK injunction via a US company against an unknown twit somewhere in the world?
And Blaney thinks this will matter... why exactly? The UK courts cannot force Twitter to do _anything_ and how are they going to punish someone they can't ID?
Same deal, you need to be an adult to have an account for the debit card, and in theory you have to be an adult to buy a cash card. Parents can STILL hand the card to their children,... and I just realized I'm entering the same territory that TV censors have been dealing with for years. Yeah, you can turn the TV off or not have one, just like you can not give a minor that kind of purchasing power.
But U.S. law says that minors cannot enter into agreements, so they "cannot" have plastic money of any kind. (that's my argument and I'll abandon it as soon as is convenient.)
Maybe the Redboxen in my area work differently. I certainly don't know everything, but here you MUST have a credit card to rent at Redboxen. Redboxen won't give you an account or _any_ movie without a credit card. I don't see all that many minors running around with credit cards, unless their parents said it was OK and handed them the card. Even then, the Redboxen think they're renting to a card carrying adult.
The point being that Redboxen around here won't rent to minors AT ALL. Disney, G, whatever, no rental for minors.
Please reply if you've seen it work differently.
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That other product...
I recently uninstalled adblock because it was preventing my tablet from operating online at all. I was one of hundreds suffering this bug, so it wouldn't surprise me if that were the reason for the removal. I do find it interesting that everyone jumped onto the "It's about advertising" bandwagon.
Really people?
They do this because it is a time honored way of dealing with "Threats to internal security." It's something used against many threats like the Black Panthers and AIM. Infiltrate peaceful/passive group that has captured the attention of the powers that be, identify a fringe member willing to do violence, fund and aid that member, "capture" that member, blame the target group. PR success! Used to be that the media would approach the subject with a somewhat "Suuuuure, the FED made them do it, you paranoid nutbag" attitude, but that is changing. Has a very Sun-Tzu like feeling to it though, doesn't it.
Libel
I'm going to guess, before RTFA, that the photographer catches the copyright/IP suit, and that the other two catch libel suits. They're not in trouble for using the images so much as attaching her identity, thru the token of her face, to homosexuality and cheating on her husband.
Interesting
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Re: Magnetic Brakes ?
When I first saw this commercial I thought it was a sad grab at a technology that's been in use for decades. Now I believe that the ad agency didn't realize that the magnetic breaking used in roller coasters was the inspiration for regenerative breaking.
What compromise?
"Hi, Northface CEO here. Please stop making money by making fun of me and my company."?
What are the SF guys going to say? "Oh, sorry, making millions IS a bad idea. We'll just go back to that job we hate."? I know someone who makes parody t-shirts and items and he attempts to provoke this kind of suit just for the attention, it increases sales and gives him something else to point at and say "Oh, Yeah, they deserve my mocking. look at what A$$#@!3$ they are." If he got that call, he'd find some way to bait them just before hanging up on them.
Confused
Is Network Solutions their host or their register? If they're the host, this is very bad news, but if they're just the register, move your domain to another register and continue operations as normal within 24 hours. Heck, tell a few sites your IP number and have the traffic come in without the aid of the "name shortcut" industry.
In most cases you can get another account at another provider in a day or two and be up and running again, even if they were your host.
I can remember when you managed your own name shortcuts and DNS was for those folks who couldn't use their hosts file. Now get off my lawn, you punk kids.
Someone explain please....
What benefit this gets the company in question? I understand the claims for jurisdiction, but aren't these things unenforceable?
One photographer I know....
My uncle, who is also a mountain climber, climbs mountains and takes photos. Often dangling from a ledge. He uses film and offers a limited run of prints for sale. There's no animosity for people who borrow electronic copies of the pictures, because what he's selling isn't an 'image', but an actual physical printing of that image. He does business over the internet, and ships people their art in a box.
It's possible to make money as a film and apature photographer, as long as you allow for the stock image people and the ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MARKET they're in. In much the same way that artists in the Letter Press Card arena don't sell LaserJet ink. I'd even argue that StockPhoto sites have put the ART back into picture taking and taken over the commodity-style work.
It's kinda amazing
What's happening here is that the banks are communicating with each other. The messages go like this;
Bank A:
"Hey I got a check #, routing #, and account. It's for $1.99. That account have the money in it?"
Bank B:
"Yeah, it's O.K. to send that check. The money is here."
Then that night the accounting is done and funds are 'transfered'. That's called 'clearing' and it's always held that meaning. All transactions happen like this. It's a paradigm of trust that allows banking to work at all the way most people like it to. Without this trust electronic banking cannot happen, no debit cards, no credit cards, and checks would take days to clear with Check21 and weeks without it. The entire banking system would collapse and people would all go back to cash.
Now HERE'S where the scam comes in.... The account holder reviews the check record and reports the check as a fraud. The accounting is reversed and the money is transfered back. Check21 and electronic banking is a soft patch that allows this abuse of trust, this fraud, to get detected faster for the larger accounts-holders, reducing it's impact by getting a fraud return processed in just a day. The scam isn't in a clearing time error, but in the difference between clearing and detecting a fraud.
You want a real screaming nightmare, investigate how banks "generate wealth". It's two guys passing a dollar back and forth and every time they do, a dime falls unto the floor. Where does the dime come from? They IMAGINE it into being real.
Re: yeah yeah, but...
1) What law EXACTLY does _downloading_ violate? Oh yeah, none. No crime = no time.
2) There are 10,000 places to aquire an mp3, and it's not my duty to verify that they are legal. That's the rights-holders job. If a source is authorized to offer a song online, then I'm in the clear for downloading it. These cases do not go to court for that very reason. Feel free to point me to a winning court case involving only downloading and NO distribution. Good luck with that.
Hang on....
A UK injunction via a US company against an unknown twit somewhere in the world?
And Blaney thinks this will matter... why exactly? The UK courts cannot force Twitter to do _anything_ and how are they going to punish someone they can't ID?
Re: Re: You need a credit card to rent movies from Redbox in Kansas City, MO.
Same deal, you need to be an adult to have an account for the debit card, and in theory you have to be an adult to buy a cash card. Parents can STILL hand the card to their children,... and I just realized I'm entering the same territory that TV censors have been dealing with for years. Yeah, you can turn the TV off or not have one, just like you can not give a minor that kind of purchasing power.
But U.S. law says that minors cannot enter into agreements, so they "cannot" have plastic money of any kind. (that's my argument and I'll abandon it as soon as is convenient.)
You need a credit card to rent movies from Redbox in Kansas City, MO.
Maybe the Redboxen in my area work differently. I certainly don't know everything, but here you MUST have a credit card to rent at Redboxen. Redboxen won't give you an account or _any_ movie without a credit card. I don't see all that many minors running around with credit cards, unless their parents said it was OK and handed them the card. Even then, the Redboxen think they're renting to a card carrying adult.
The point being that Redboxen around here won't rent to minors AT ALL. Disney, G, whatever, no rental for minors.
Please reply if you've seen it work differently.