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by mark212 12y ago
baseboard or plinth. I think they were going for "something upon which the rest is built" but it comes across as meaning merely ornamental or decorative.
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by mark212 12y ago
avoiding a criminal prosecution is a very big thing. Banks are typically much more eager to pay a massive civil fine rather than a much smaller criminal fine. Having any kind of conviction as a corporation disqualifies a corporation (partic
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by mark212 12y ago
Google "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" and you'll see the chief example.
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by mark212 13y ago
You have that backwards. Plenty of corporate managers will look at this addition to the board of directors and think "A serious adult non-tech leader just joined, I can now take this company seriously."
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by mark212 13y ago
I also read it as: "audio and video are good enough to satisfy the agents / managers / PR people for the folks who get paid a lot of money to care about how their image and voice is presented to the public."
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by mark212 13y ago
Please don't. I'm a consumer finance attorney who has worked for several years with people from all over the income spectrum who have trouble with finances. No one -- and I mean no one, not federal judges, not banking attorneys, n
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by mark212 13y ago
doesn't matter. In a criminal prosecution, relevant evidence is only excluded if it was obtained by the government breaking the law -- not a private party. The exclusionary rule's entire justification is to chill over-zealous po
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by mark212 13y ago
I'm not so sure. It would have to use iAd on iOS to do display ads, and Apple would yank that access with a breach of the terms of service. I doubt he's still getting "tens of thousands" of dollars from ad revenue in And
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by mark212 13y ago
a frisbee based game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_(sport) my college football team played it as a spring sport during "optional" workouts and it was brutal. Like rugby, only with a forward pass.
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by mark212 13y ago
exactly this. If the conditions were clear and unambiguous as to whether a contract's term was satisfied or not, there would be no need for lawsuits to enforce a breach. It's precisely because of the enormous ambiguity in human af
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by mark212 13y ago
I'm just mystified as to why someone would type up an email in Word and then copy-and-paste it to Outlook to send. Did I enter a wormhole and end up in 1998 or something?
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by mark212 13y ago
haven't had any of those problems with Hover's DNS service, which is surprisingly full-featured for an self-styled minimalist service.
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by mark212 13y ago
This is a violation of federal law, specifically the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act. Opt-out or negative option charges to credit cards are illegal as of January 1, 2011. So is using a credit card number on file for one reason (e.g.
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by mark212 13y ago
Same here. I've been very pleased with their service but DO is way out of line here. Shutting down content based on a single complaint, without a court order or any kind of injunction -- and then saying that the customer has to get a c
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by mark212 13y ago
Completely don't understand this post. I'm typing from a MacBook Pro (15" retina, bought it a month ago) and can't replicate the OP's experience. A light jab of the power button, like I would hit the delete key, doe
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by mark212 13y ago
this. It's not the win rate per se, it's the fact that the District Court judges and clerks are unusually experienced in IP litigation. You have to understand that in other districts the judges are doing federal criminal matters,
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by mark212 13y ago
Texas is conservative -- with a small c. Lots of suspicion towards outsiders generally, and towards large corporations in particular, have resulted in many outsized jury verdicts (in non-IP or patent cases) from Texas, as well as other red
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by mark212 13y ago
Here's the technical answer: the federal courts have jurisdiction over (among other things) claims arising as a result of federal statutes, e.g., the patent laws. Suing in a particular US District Court is a matter of venue and venue i
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by mark212 13y ago
look at the TCO page for the announcement [1]. The biggest cost savings Amazon is touting lies in reduced IT staff and total elimination of hardware costs. By their calculations, the licensing is only 3% or $3 per seat for a 1,000 person bu
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by mark212 13y ago
I'm guessing the HN crowd isn't really the target for this offering, though its clients may be. Having the full MS suite is a big deal, especially where there's ancillary storage right on board (and similarly firewalled). A v
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by mark212 13y ago
I think you read that wrong. At the current exchange rate to the US Dollar, it's $5,404. The ASUS PQ321Q (great product name, guys!) is offered at B&H Photo for $3,262 [1]. I'm a big fan of Dell's Ultrasharp line and have
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by mark212 13y ago
I thought that was the best part: corp spends tens of thousands in lawyer time and craftiness to be stealthy, but forgets that it gives corp-branded charge cards to its employees, who won't spend $3.50 on a latte while on company time
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by mark212 13y ago
my question also. This is useful for what, exactly?
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by mark212 13y ago
worked for me in Safari on my Retina MacBook Pro. Running OS X 10.8.5 and Safari 6.0.5
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by mark212 13y ago
you're getting your terms wrong. The antitrust concept is called "tying" and what it means is using a lawfully-acquired monopoly (or dominant) position in one market to increase market share in another. Because no carrier ha
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by mark212 13y ago
I think that was the core of the OP's complaint: he was shut down without any explanation. Would be interesting to hear DO's side of things.
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by mark212 13y ago
You'll forgive me if I don't put reading someone's email on the same moral plane as the premeditated murder of 12 million people during the Holocaust.
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by mark212 13y ago
>> - Contract up ... always >.< yes a million times. Don't think of it as being confrontational, think of it as memorializing an agreement. You want to make sure you and your client are on the same page, and it's a g
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by mark212 13y ago
there's also the building code and inspectors, at least here in the US. A complete PITA when doing remodeling, but this system truly does save lives.
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by mark212 14y ago
the signalling isn't primarily to current and prospective customers, it's to other trolls out there. The $75k (negotiable) offer of compromise is on the low end of such demands and the signal to other NPEs thinking about suing Rackspace is

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