The chalk mark runs down the side of the tire onto the pavement. It would take some pretty fancy driving to move the car and put it back with the tire and pavement mark still aligned.
To whoever said that the chalk can damage the tire, get real. Chalk is very soft; if it can damage your tire, I hope you never have to drive through a mud puddle.
I'm a Slate Plus subscriber. For the most part, I get the same podcasts as non-subscribers without the ads. But more to the point. I would love to spend all my time making high quality podcasts and giving them away, but I have to eat. There have always been a variety of business models on the web and it has been clear for a while that free content is often worth only what you pay for it, so I pay for all sorts of stuff, from the Financial Times to Questionable Content.
I think Slate's podcasts are worth $4/mo. If you don't, that's fine, but what's evil about paying for stuff if you think it's worth it?
I will be interested to see what the DPAs do with these complaints. It's not like the US, they prefer to negotiate and agree to undertakings, and they rarely fine unless the offender has been intransigent. Their version of intelligible is likely not the same as Schrems'. The French DPA did just fine Google 50M€ on another Scrhems complaint, which is enough to get their attention but hardly going to put them out of business.
The "least favorite" crack is wrong -- look at the web site and you'll see that people hate Credit One, which is unrelated to Capital One, who gets relatively few complaints. They do file a lot of lawsuits, but that's because they have a lot of subprime borrowers who default.
On the other hand, that has little to do with the main point, which is that ICE just wants to hurt people, regardless of what the law says.
Registrars turn off thousands of phishing domains every day, and you never hear about it, because they don't make very many mistakes, and the Internet would be much more unpleasant if they didn't. No question, turning off zoho.com was a mistake, but I have to ask, what was Zoho thinking?
There are a thousand registrars (and tens of thousands of resellers) and their services vary greatly. Tierranet's market is individuals and small businesses with low value names. They charge $12/yr for a .com. How much personal attention do you think you've bought for that price?
If your domain is valuable, registrars like Markmonitor and CSC will provide much more secure service at a much higher price, and won't casually turn you off. If you don't treat your domain like it's valuable, why should anyone else treat it that way?
By the way, I expect that Zoho has other reasons for becoming their own registrar, like selling domains to their customers. If you just want to protect one high-value name, a name at Markmonitor is a lot cheaper than running an entire registry.
I was particularly impressed at the threat to sue Cornell under Canadian law. Unless something has radically changed since I was there three days ago, Ithaca is in the US, not Canada.
Doesn't the LSUC have sanctions for frivolous threats?
When Spain passed a similar link tax, Google just shut down Google News. News aggregators are hard to get revenue from (the classic example is a article about a knife murder with an ad for kitchen knives) so I expect they'll just turn off other than perhaps a few fake aggregators run by publishers.
GM has one of the most aggressive driverless car programs in the world. They have asked the NHTSA to run 2500 driverless taxis / year. Not so surprisingly it's at least as easy for a car company to add computers to a car than for a computer company to add a car to computers.
That is the shortest decision I have ever seen in a patent case, by an order of magnitude. This case is over, Cloudflare won. The only way this could have been better for Cloudflare is if the court had awarded them costs, but they apparently didn't ask.
Bayer lost the US trademark for Aspirin as confiscated enemy property at the end of WW I, so it's not a very good example. They lost the trademark for their highly effective cough syrup Heroin, too.
Better examples are cellophane, escalator, and dry ice, all of which were originally US trademarks.
The European trademark office has a handy lookup service at https://euipo.europa.eu. Look up "ultra europe" and indeed there's no trademark. It's kind of amazing that AMM and their lawyers never checked. On the other hand, someone filed an application for a trademark on "ultra europe" just two days ago. It doesn't say who it was, but we can guess.
When the US ratified the Berne convention, it specifically excluded moral rights, saying that the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) was close enough. VARA forbids changes to a work that are "prejudicial to the author's honor or reputation." I don't see how the girl would do that, but that is the legal thread on which his argument might hang.
In Europe, Moral Rights are an integral part of copyright law. Perhaps he should move the bull there.
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Re: Re: Re: Bad to Worse
The chalk mark runs down the side of the tire onto the pavement. It would take some pretty fancy driving to move the car and put it back with the tire and pavement mark still aligned.
To whoever said that the chalk can damage the tire, get real. Chalk is very soft; if it can damage your tire, I hope you never have to drive through a mud puddle.
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We all want a pony
I'm a Slate Plus subscriber. For the most part, I get the same podcasts as non-subscribers without the ads. But more to the point. I would love to spend all my time making high quality podcasts and giving them away, but I have to eat. There have always been a variety of business models on the web and it has been clear for a while that free content is often worth only what you pay for it, so I pay for all sorts of stuff, from the Financial Times to Questionable Content.
I think Slate's podcasts are worth $4/mo. If you don't, that's fine, but what's evil about paying for stuff if you think it's worth it?
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A complaint is not a determination
The French DPA did just fine Google 50M€ on another Scrhems complaint, which is enough to get their attention but hardly going to put them out of business.
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not the least favorite
On the other hand, that has little to do with the main point, which is that ICE just wants to hurt people, regardless of what the law says.
On the post: Registrar Killing Zoho Over A Few Phishing Claims Demonstrates The Ridiculousness Of Having Registrars Police The Internet
Sometimes you only get what you pay for
There are a thousand registrars (and tens of thousands of resellers) and their services vary greatly. Tierranet's market is individuals and small businesses with low value names. They charge $12/yr for a .com. How much personal attention do you think you've bought for that price?
If your domain is valuable, registrars like Markmonitor and CSC will provide much more secure service at a much higher price, and won't casually turn you off. If you don't treat your domain like it's valuable, why should anyone else treat it that way?
By the way, I expect that Zoho has other reasons for becoming their own registrar, like selling domains to their customers. If you just want to protect one high-value name, a name at Markmonitor is a lot cheaper than running an entire registry.
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Ithaca is in Canada?
Doesn't the LSUC have sanctions for frivolous threats?
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Re: Question
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My scary anecdote
That's true, by the way.
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GM, huh?
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2018/01/12/gm-driverless-c ar-fleet-cruise-av/109381232/
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Wow, that's short
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Re: aspirin
Better examples are cellophane, escalator, and dry ice, all of which were originally US trademarks.
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They coulda looked it up
On the other hand, someone filed an application for a trademark on "ultra europe" just two days ago. It doesn't say who it was, but we can guess.
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Moral rights
In Europe, Moral Rights are an integral part of copyright law. Perhaps he should move the bull there.
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