They could, of course, close their official sales channels in Taiwan. Then you can't buy these apps directly in Taiwan, although they could still be purchased abroad. And with the Internet, borders are mostly non-existent...
Well, Mole Station Nursery, Molestation Nursery... One less space, yet such a huge difference. :-)
Mole Station Nursery is actually located at http://www.molerivernursery.com/ but still uses Mole Station in it's description. :-)
There are of course many other site names that might appear different when you remove the space. :-) For example:
Experts Exchange, Therapist Finder, PowerGen Italia, Pen Island, Who Represents... Those could also be read as: Expert Sex Change, The Rapist Finder, Power Genitalia, Penis Land, Whore Presents...
Yeah, dumb domain names. :-) Maybe that's why the French prefer their own language instead.
France is also one of the few countries that won't tolerate "foreign words" to become part of the French language. Rarely will a foreign word become popular enough to be more or less adopted by the French language but in general, they just create their own language...
While every country is allowed to define it's own rules and laws, these kinds of rules just make them appear to be a bunch of retarded barbarians...
Unfortunately, the dentist has to pay for his lawyer's stupidity. If a lawyer is so dumb that he doesn't know about section 230 then he doesn't do his profession a favor. And he caused a lot of damage for his client.
Maybe that dentist should now take his lawyer to court so he doesn't have to pay all those costs himself.
Well, the Giggs Effect sounds much better than the Streisand Effect. Males me Giggle... :-) It definitely brings censorship stupidity to new heights.
Well, maybe keep calling it Streisand Effect when it happens in the USA, and Giggs Effect when it happens in Europe. All we need now is names for the other parts of the world...
KPN recently admitted that it does a Deep Packet Inspection on all mobile communications to "improve their services". Unfortunately, this also happens to be illegal in the Netherlands. And in Europe! It's a real bad privacy violation which will probably cost them a lot of customers and possibly more in damages...
KPN is trying to downplay the whole thing, many organisations including Bits of Freedom (bof.nl) are making the whole thing more public and are advising every client of KPN to file complaints at their local police office.
I wonder if KPN will go tits-up because of all this. It wouldn't surprise me, though.
Google and Facebook just pretended that they wanted to buy Skype, knowing that Microsoft would feel left out of some sort of communication technique. Now, Microsoft had to spend a huge amount of cash to take over Skype, thus having less cash to invest in something more useful.
Of course, Skype has a big disadvantage: many mobile network operators will want to block Skype altogether from mobile phones and other devices, since internet has a fixed price but phone calls are paid for per call. So Microsoft gained something that's not very welcome on mobile devices. Great way to break theit Windows Mobile system! :-)
I happen to be Dutch and we from the Netherlands always tend to make jokes about how dumb those Belgian people are. Unfortunately, this case just provides us more evidence about the lack of intelligence in certain Belgian areas...
A Belgian judge once cancelled his trip to the UK. When asked why, he said he considered it too dangerous to drive in a country where they drive on the left side of the road. When they told him that it's not as bad as he thinks, he replied: "Well, I've tried to drive on the left side in Brussels but I didn't like it..."
Oh, well... I guess there will be some more jokes about Belgians from now on. And possibly other nationalities will start to make fun of them because of this decision...
It wouldn't surprise me if ICE will seize the MAFIAAfire domain and perhaps even the Mozilla site itself! ICE doesn't need a court to take down sites. This, they've done before and they will continue to do so until they are stopped by many, many court orders. (And perhaps even that won't be enough...)
Well, Sony still create some reasonable-quality camera's...
Then again, I wonder when Sony will start failing in their photography department also... :-)
I'd like to be there, but who is going to pay for the plane trip? And a nice hotel or other place to crash? Besides, I'd have to get past those creepy TSA-guys at the border and I don't want them to mess with my drinks. :-)
I think a sadistic judge should look at the intent behind the transfer of copyright and thus decide that since Righthaven claimed to have the proper copyright, without Stephens making any notion about this being untrue, thus the copyrights are now with Righthaven. Doesn't matter that written statements claim otherwise, when Righthaven claimed to own copyright, Stephens didn't object, thus from now on, Righthaven has full rights on the copyright! And Stephens Media has nothing...
Would be pretty nasty, since Stephens was hoping to make some nice profits this way... And now, they'd have none.
Don't think this would happen, though. Would be justice, though...
I think the NYT just hired some outside technicians for their "valuable" input on how to build the paywall. I can't imagine that it's a complete in-house project so they just paid a bunch of advisors who all gave bad advise and then demanded to be paid for this too.
It wouldn't surprise me if the code behind the paywall would be an enormous hit on TheDailyWTF site...
Well, consider this... Due to the paywall, advertisers will move away from the NYT and start advertising on other sites that just link directly to the NYT articles. The net result will be that income from advertisements will drop to near-zero.
Fortunately, there will always be people willing to pay to get past the paywall in a normal way, even if they have to do this so they can set up the links on their sites to forward their own visitors to the NYT site. Thus, there will be some income from subscriptions.
Thus: advertisements = near-zero income, subscriptions is some income. As a result, advertisements are indeed dwarved by subscriptions... :-)
Well, about all other citizens in the Netherlands just laughed in his face for making such a stupid remark! There's absolutely no support for this plan! This Chief of Police made himself look real stupid and it wouldn't surprise me if he'll have to look for a different job in the near future. Certain politicians are already considering him to be unwanted...
Wow! Job well done. This politician isn't dumb, but real smart! By blocking journalists, he just gained a lot more attention from various people for his tweets! I never heard of him before TechDirt started to write about him and now... WOW! This guy get's a lot of worldwide fame now!
Yeah, it's the Streisant effect, but that's not always bad.
Never knew that Costa Rica was part of South Africa. :-)
Also, there have been a few analysis in the Netherlands about the whole case and for some strange reason, Alejandra Transporte SA cannot be found on the Internet. Not as a web hosting company, anyways. Some people in the Netherlands thus think this is just some delay tactics by some hacker who knows that Brein now holds a lot of sensitive information about him, enough to be arrested and to receive a bill for an amount that cannot be pronounced, so big will it be! So, some delay tactics will allow him to clean up after himself, get a new identity, recover from plastic surgery and then to go deep in hiding...
Very, very deep...
It's also concluded that while it's not theft, it's inappropriate how Brein managed to get those servers. They will probably be fined for this but they end up being able to use any evidence found on those servers against it's owners. And that will hurt it's owners a lot!
Funny. I just googled his name and the third picture is a fat, naked guy with a small penis. :-) Definitely very gay!
I think this could be because the name is reasonable common and some gay porn actor might be using the same name. In that case, the pictures are just proper, matching the right content. :-)
But they didn't know it would have a happy ending before they pulled their stupid stunt! They were lucky and the Walmart policy makes a lot of sense because next time, the employees will be less lucky and nearby hospitals will be dealing with multiple victims of shot wounds and most likely the local funeral homes will get some additional work to do too...
It was stupid, since it was about a laptop. Maybe an expensive one but still worth far less than the injury of a bullet in your body.
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Or, maybe they choose an easier solution...
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About the porn link...
Mole Station Nursery is actually located at http://www.molerivernursery.com/ but still uses Mole Station in it's description. :-)
There are of course many other site names that might appear different when you remove the space. :-) For example:
Experts Exchange, Therapist Finder, PowerGen Italia, Pen Island, Who Represents... Those could also be read as: Expert Sex Change, The Rapist Finder, Power Genitalia, Penis Land, Whore Presents...
Yeah, dumb domain names. :-) Maybe that's why the French prefer their own language instead.
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While every country is allowed to define it's own rules and laws, these kinds of rules just make them appear to be a bunch of retarded barbarians...
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Unfortunately...
Maybe that dentist should now take his lawyer to court so he doesn't have to pay all those costs himself.
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Giggsles...
Well, maybe keep calling it Streisand Effect when it happens in the USA, and Giggs Effect when it happens in Europe. All we need now is names for the other parts of the world...
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Things are worse!
KPN is trying to downplay the whole thing, many organisations including Bits of Freedom (bof.nl) are making the whole thing more public and are advising every client of KPN to file complaints at their local police office.
I wonder if KPN will go tits-up because of all this. It wouldn't surprise me, though.
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I know why!
Of course, Skype has a big disadvantage: many mobile network operators will want to block Skype altogether from mobile phones and other devices, since internet has a fixed price but phone calls are paid for per call. So Microsoft gained something that's not very welcome on mobile devices. Great way to break theit Windows Mobile system! :-)
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A Belgian judge once cancelled his trip to the UK. When asked why, he said he considered it too dangerous to drive in a country where they drive on the left side of the road. When they told him that it's not as bad as he thinks, he replied: "Well, I've tried to drive on the left side in Brussels but I didn't like it..."
Oh, well... I guess there will be some more jokes about Belgians from now on. And possibly other nationalities will start to make fun of them because of this decision...
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Poor Mozilla...
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Then again, I wonder when Sony will start failing in their photography department also... :-)
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Would be pretty nasty, since Stephens was hoping to make some nice profits this way... And now, they'd have none.
Don't think this would happen, though. Would be justice, though...
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April's Fools Day???
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Technical advisors...
It wouldn't surprise me if the code behind the paywall would be an enormous hit on TheDailyWTF site...
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No, it makes a lot of sense...
Fortunately, there will always be people willing to pay to get past the paywall in a normal way, even if they have to do this so they can set up the links on their sites to forward their own visitors to the NYT site. Thus, there will be some income from subscriptions.
Thus: advertisements = near-zero income, subscriptions is some income. As a result, advertisements are indeed dwarved by subscriptions... :-)
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The man is a genius!
Yeah, it's the Streisant effect, but that's not always bad.
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Also, there have been a few analysis in the Netherlands about the whole case and for some strange reason, Alejandra Transporte SA cannot be found on the Internet. Not as a web hosting company, anyways. Some people in the Netherlands thus think this is just some delay tactics by some hacker who knows that Brein now holds a lot of sensitive information about him, enough to be arrested and to receive a bill for an amount that cannot be pronounced, so big will it be! So, some delay tactics will allow him to clean up after himself, get a new identity, recover from plastic surgery and then to go deep in hiding...
Very, very deep...
It's also concluded that while it's not theft, it's inappropriate how Brein managed to get those servers. They will probably be fined for this but they end up being able to use any evidence found on those servers against it's owners. And that will hurt it's owners a lot!
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I think this could be because the name is reasonable common and some gay porn actor might be using the same name. In that case, the pictures are just proper, matching the right content. :-)
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It was stupid, since it was about a laptop. Maybe an expensive one but still worth far less than the injury of a bullet in your body.
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