Single words should not be eligible for trademark, only phrases. Plus, the phrase must be specific to an item sold by the company to the public. It may add a little to the cost of trademarking all the products some companies may sell, but it's better than the alternative.
We not only have companies trying to lock up single words, but in a few infamous cases, single letters.
In this case the issue was that the officer found the birth certificate stating Gonzales was born in Mexico. So it's a bit worse than that, they can't locate the citizenship record.
No, they found a database entry that claimed he was born in Mexico, not a birth certificate. If that's wrong, then there would be no naturalization records to find as they were never needed. It's also assuming the all naturalization records everywhere for all time are in a single database that can be searched. You know these chumps put no effort into any kind of search after finding the record claiming he was Mexican.
One quote that particularly stood out was: "If you look at children, children are almost -- and I would almost say definitely -- but almost immune from this disease. They don't have a problem. They just don't have a problem."
There's a Republitard running ads here in NC where he slams the NC governor for not making kids go back to school by claiming the CDC has stated that kids do not catch and cannot spread the corona virus. Listening to his stupid and harmful lies on the radio every day driving to work frankly makes me sick.
It's just a monetization claim, so he gets the money anyway, either through the music distributor or the game company.
He doesn't get THE money, he gets SOME money. By the time it goes through the distributor or the game company, what he gets is a pittance compared to what it would have been had he got the money straight from the video.
Or Thunderfoot's latest videos debunking corona virus conspiracies. It can be VERY hard to get an actual human at YT to help you out. Thunderfoot finally managed to get a human on YT's twitter account, not YT itself. The YT contact methods never once got him an actual human, just different levels of AI form responses.
they wish to be free to deliberately infiltrate a live system in violation of readily accessible terms, openly publish any results obtained, and be immune from being intercepted or reported for doing so.
In other words, they wish to do their job without getting sued. Yeah, it's funny how Voatz makes out the entire point of security audits to be illegal because they don't like the results.
Commercial filming has long required a permit almost everywhere. Lots of indy films skirt those ordinances to cut costs, doing things like filming at night, and/or in places that lack police patrols.
There's more to a depression than just unemployment, and it hardly hyperbole if someone says something is the 2nd worst when it MIGHT really be the third. Sounds pretty accurate in fact.
The use of notch filters that would plug into the box behind your house where the cable entered allowed cable companies to allow/remove blocks of channels with the ease of inserting/removing a filter plug. This was in place as early as the early 80s when my dad worked for Qube Cable. Channels like HBO and Skinemax ( ;) ) were put into channel blocks that could easily be blocked unless you paid for them. It required special tools to get into the box and remove the filters, and they could sense when you did so yourself, making it fairly easy to catch pirates. Someone with enough know-how could work around this, but it was enough to thwart the average person.
It's all subjective, but we have some sore losers out there.
Some sore losers AND a horde of lawyers desperate to make a living when there's already too many lawyers. Look behind anything crazy these days and you'll find a lawyer (or a whole company of lawyers) trying to scam some money out of people/the government/other companies because they can't get real law work.
As the story shows, it's not so much the list itself as much as how the list is made, and the ability to get innocent people off the list if mistakenly added. In all your examples (and in the story here), the worst sorts of people are making the list (not on it), and there's virtually no recourse in getting removed if you somehow get on the list.
The report by the Free Press contains photos of both the person caught on the phone's camera and Michael Oliver.
Wow, that software is really bad at trying to match african-americans. Those two aren't remotely similar other than both being black men (and even then, they aren't even the same shade).
That was my thoughts: this is very much like a surveillance camera - hours of coverage with any number of innocent people included. So how are the two different such that geofencing is bad while surveillance cameras are not? Are they both bad? Neither? If a bank posts a sign that warns your cell phone is being monitored, does that make it fine? That's all they have for CCTV monitoring and they're considered not an issue.
The problem with that is that most of these students don't want to be Americans. They have lucrative careers waiting at home... if they get that degree. I knew quite a few F1 students at the University of Houston when I got my degree, and an American degree is the key to a much better life back home where they want to be, just in a better social class. Or maybe they even plan to make their home better using their degree - I knew a girl who was getting a civil engineering degree with an eye toward improving the infrastructure of her home once returning to India.
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Re: Re: Boss is too mainstream a word.
Single words should not be eligible for trademark, only phrases. Plus, the phrase must be specific to an item sold by the company to the public. It may add a little to the cost of trademarking all the products some companies may sell, but it's better than the alternative.
We not only have companies trying to lock up single words, but in a few infamous cases, single letters.
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Re: Re: "Convicted" terrorist
Yeah, the sentence in question was a direct quote of Carr, not the writer of the article here. Reading comprehension fail. :)
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Re: Re:
No, they found a database entry that claimed he was born in Mexico, not a birth certificate. If that's wrong, then there would be no naturalization records to find as they were never needed. It's also assuming the all naturalization records everywhere for all time are in a single database that can be searched. You know these chumps put no effort into any kind of search after finding the record claiming he was Mexican.
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Republican mantra
There's a Republitard running ads here in NC where he slams the NC governor for not making kids go back to school by claiming the CDC has stated that kids do not catch and cannot spread the corona virus. Listening to his stupid and harmful lies on the radio every day driving to work frankly makes me sick.
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How confusing!
First thing I thought of when I saw their new name was the Fenix game development language.
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Re: Not Content ID, but still troubling...
He doesn't get THE money, he gets SOME money. By the time it goes through the distributor or the game company, what he gets is a pittance compared to what it would have been had he got the money straight from the video.
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Re: Simple answer
Or Thunderfoot's latest videos debunking corona virus conspiracies. It can be VERY hard to get an actual human at YT to help you out. Thunderfoot finally managed to get a human on YT's twitter account, not YT itself. The YT contact methods never once got him an actual human, just different levels of AI form responses.
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In other words
In other words, they wish to do their job without getting sued. Yeah, it's funny how Voatz makes out the entire point of security audits to be illegal because they don't like the results.
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Re:
Commercial filming has long required a permit almost everywhere. Lots of indy films skirt those ordinances to cut costs, doing things like filming at night, and/or in places that lack police patrols.
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Re: Re:
There's more to a depression than just unemployment, and it hardly hyperbole if someone says something is the 2nd worst when it MIGHT really be the third. Sounds pretty accurate in fact.
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Re: Re: the mighty Trump
It's a joke, and including Trump makes it funny as every joke needs a butt. ;)
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Re:
The use of notch filters that would plug into the box behind your house where the cable entered allowed cable companies to allow/remove blocks of channels with the ease of inserting/removing a filter plug. This was in place as early as the early 80s when my dad worked for Qube Cable. Channels like HBO and Skinemax ( ;) ) were put into channel blocks that could easily be blocked unless you paid for them. It required special tools to get into the box and remove the filters, and they could sense when you did so yourself, making it fairly easy to catch pirates. Someone with enough know-how could work around this, but it was enough to thwart the average person.
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According to the current dictionary...
So, it is literal then. ;)
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Re:
Some sore losers AND a horde of lawyers desperate to make a living when there's already too many lawyers. Look behind anything crazy these days and you'll find a lawyer (or a whole company of lawyers) trying to scam some money out of people/the government/other companies because they can't get real law work.
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Re: Um...
As the story shows, it's not so much the list itself as much as how the list is made, and the ability to get innocent people off the list if mistakenly added. In all your examples (and in the story here), the worst sorts of people are making the list (not on it), and there's virtually no recourse in getting removed if you somehow get on the list.
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Re:
"Former" client: Didn't I fire you?
Liebowitz: It's par for the course.
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Pretty bad
Wow, that software is really bad at trying to match african-americans. Those two aren't remotely similar other than both being black men (and even then, they aren't even the same shade).
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Re:
That was my thoughts: this is very much like a surveillance camera - hours of coverage with any number of innocent people included. So how are the two different such that geofencing is bad while surveillance cameras are not? Are they both bad? Neither? If a bank posts a sign that warns your cell phone is being monitored, does that make it fine? That's all they have for CCTV monitoring and they're considered not an issue.
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Re:
The problem with that is that most of these students don't want to be Americans. They have lucrative careers waiting at home... if they get that degree. I knew quite a few F1 students at the University of Houston when I got my degree, and an American degree is the key to a much better life back home where they want to be, just in a better social class. Or maybe they even plan to make their home better using their degree - I knew a girl who was getting a civil engineering degree with an eye toward improving the infrastructure of her home once returning to India.
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Re:
On Twitter's end, it's probably all automated. It would need to be to handle the number of DMCA notices they likely get every day.
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