bakerstreet

bakerstreet

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Reply to The full deck... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I worked in corporate security for about ten years, and you don't know the number of times I got memos saying: "Joe Blow was terminated and escorted off the premisis yesterday. He made threats on several employees, and his ex-wife works here as well. Don't allow him access to the property." The kicker? They forget to confiscate Mr. Blow's photo ID, access card and seem to have overlooked keeping any photographic record of the gentleman. We probably had that happen once a we

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Reply to Online copyrights... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I've never been able to find a court transcript or a law to indicate that sort of thing is admissible as evidence. I'll see what I can dig up with the US postal service. I'm willing to bet that they'll say that they can't verify an envelope hasn't been opened and resealed after delivery, registered or not. IF they can't verify the seal, then they can't say that the work was in it when it was mailed. On the other hand, if they take responsibility for verifying the integrity of

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Reply to The full deck... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hey, bkb! that would have been better. hadn't thought of toilet paper, or maybe tissue? Heck, ammunition? A bullet with not only your name, but your face on it...

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Reply to The full deck... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Diplomacy requires outward esteem for both sides of an issue, even when one side doesn't deserve it. Diplomacy in cases like Arafat, or Saddam Hussein, or Castro, does nothing but grant legitimacy to people who otherwise would be considered criminals, or worse. The UN and the R.C. church have courted people who barely deserve the title 'human'. Arafat was a terrorist, then he talked to the UN, gains favor with religious leaders around the world, courts other 'diplomatic' nations, and suddenly

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Reply to Online copyrights... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"prevent a monolithic corporation of accusing me " I change my mind about part of it and forget to change the rest... If the postage thing *is* true, some one with malicious intent could cost companies a lot of money in legal fees, whether they won or not. I just checked, and I have more than a dozen unsealed manila envelopes postmarked prior to 1995. I used them before major magazin

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Reply to Online copyrights... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Jafo: any idea when and where? I have mailed many manila envelopes using only the little brass thingy to keep it shut. What would prevent me from reopening it at a later date, sliding in a hand-typed screenplay for a popular movie, and sealing it with the glue seal? What would prevent a monolithic corporation to accuse me of doing that if the screenplay *was* original? The postal service makes no claims about the integrity of the envelope, so they really can't testify as to what was

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Reply to Online copyrights... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

the 'dated proof' thing is an urban legend. Anyone can get a postmark an envelope, reopen it, stick something in it, and reseal it. I could go right now and postmark a hundred empty, unsealed manila envelopes and hang onto them so i could sue people later... You'd be laughed out of court. All you can really do is register. You are protected regardless, whether you do or don't, it just makes it a lot easier to prove.

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Reply to Some Mac site ripped Dangeruss :( in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This is iffy. I think the guy was fine for posting, since it is a screenshot site there is no implication that he made it. What is ethically wrong is that he didn't actually post a screenshot, i.e. a shot with icons, a taskbar, etc., that no one could just save and reuse. Also, he didn't credit D, though he could have just assumed that since the wallpaper itself has a credit line, he wasn't really hiding anything. Not good, but not evil. The site should make sure people don'

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Reply to Online copyrights... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It is copyrighted the instant you make it. No one can copy it or create derivative works without the artists permission. Small portions of the work can be used for journalistic or educational references, or as a parody of the original work, which is considered 'fair-use'. If I recall the time limit used to be something like 70 years after the death of the original artist, though that was challenged by Disney and a few others recently and the US congress was given the right by the supr

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Reply to HoverWeather in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I thought of that, too, but the weather page for every zip code and location in the world is different. The central server would have to poll the locale of everyone with the software. I suppose you could get that info into a database when people register, and then let the server script grab the info into a database that could be queried by the app. People would have to be able to change their registered locale. It would mean a sizable amount of activity for the developer after the so

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Reply to HoverWeather in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I posted a string related to weather info a few months back. As far as I know, there is no free-use weather polling. Weather dot com, the NOAA, yahoo, none of them will really tolerate the kind of hits weather software require. I dunno about hoverweather, but a lot of news/weather polling software updates every three minutes by default. That is 20 hits per hour, per user. If 5,000 people use your software, that is 100,000 hits per hour. 2 and a half million hits a day that never

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Reply to US is going to war tomarrow... dang... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ah, peace... "What began as a largely peaceful rally turned violent when several hundred protesters broke away, hurling gasoline bombs at police and smashing storefronts. They also set fire to a bank and threw rocks at the British Embassy." -- www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2571776,00.html yup, that'll show'em. You can bet those greek police, merchants, and bank owners will think twice before they try and invade Iraq...

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Reply to The full deck... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Oddly enough, Moshi, I have seen a lot of people who were for this war, and pro-gun ownership, that weren't white trash. The stereotype may exist in some circles, but that could be pretty much disproved by about ten minutes of asking around in any large urban area. Actually, I don't mingle with a lot of white trash, though someone as cosmopolitan as yourself might find it hard to believe. I noticed that Sean Penn lost a couple of handguns when his car was stolen the other day. I wo

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Reply to The full deck... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I saw an article that claimed a satanic cult of freemasons rule the world. If you dig hard enough, especially on the internet, you can find an artical that will say about anything you need said. It is a slippery slope from 'the US bought off Hussein' to '9-11 was a government plot to attack arab nations' to the kind of 'jews are gonna getcha' stuff one finds all over the place. You can find yourself standing in some really ugly crowds at the bottom of that slide. Don't people think t

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Reply to Yay....100,000 downloads.... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

re: #8 "...utterly uninspiring drivel, nothing more than a re-hashed standard XP interface....no imagination or creativity involved, just pump out another color combo and call it a 'catch-phrase' name." From Aqua on, there seems to be a need to emulate the next OS before the rest of the world can buy it, or just appear to have a different one without buying it. It reminds me of the kits they sell for cars; a sports car body to put onto a Volkswagen or some such. A ver

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Reply to To squirlze.... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What ever happened to tact? I can't imagine going into a stranger's house and ranting expletives. I am assuming that such people don't travel much, since there are places around the world that you can be jailed or worse for running off at the mouth. That pesky freedom of speech, somebody oughtta do something about it... And for God's sake, y'all... http://www.iespell.com/

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