A similar story made the rounds last April. CBS claimed copyright infringement on the "DiagnosticPADD" app for the iPad. Specifically, CBS claimed

What's confusing to me is they seem to flip back and forth between copyright and trademark infringement. I'm not sure how either would apply here anyway.

I'm writing this from the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, right near the edge of the evacuation zone 'C'. A good portion of the people here in the neighborhood of Dumbo near the water have either followed mandatory evacuation or have opted to leave on their own . Nearby low-lying Fulton Ferry and the much better situated Brooklyn Heights are ready to ride the storm out.

I also happen to have the weekend on-call network emergency duty for a group of offices here in the neighborhood (trade into it weeks ago. Oops). We ran through a checklist today, including testing backup generators and going over contingency plans for flooding. In front of me is a cell phone, radio and keys to everything. Meanwhile, the city is doing a massive amount of prep work on its own. Talked to a number of friends and neighbors today and everyone who will be here is hunkered down.

This is my first hurricane. Not sure how this is going to turn out, but everyone here is ready.

Bring it Irene.

Doh. Just realized I wasn't logged in and posted that as Anon. Link in sig is below:

From the article:

I'm sold. If there's anything I fear more while in my personal sub than sharks with head-mounted-lasers, it's hired squids wielding sledgehammers.

Also those homeless sperms whales that approach your sub at the intersection and want to squeegee your front porthole for spare change are annoying too.

I had no idea I was self-aware.

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Funny, I thought the law was quite clear about needing explicit permission to use one's likeness for advertising. I believe it's referred to as personality rights, or more specifically in the US, right to publicity. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit for invasion of privacy through misappropriation of name or likeness and/or violation of the right of publicity.

Though I'm sure FB is already prepared to update its terms of use to allow this kind of use, no doubt by dangling useless "Facebook credits" in front of the users to get them to sign...

(IANAL, but have worked enough with commercial photography to know you always need a release for this kind of use in advertising)

Empire Fulton Ferry Park is right down the street from where I live. There's only so many places it could be hid.

I think I need to fire up my spare laptop with a LiveCD and find it.

For science

I'm not going to talk heavily about whether or not Windows Phone 7 is a good consumer phone. Only time will tell what kind of market adoption it will have verses the iPhone, Android, and Blackberries already present in the market.

I will, however, bemoan the complete lack of enterprise-ready features. Support for Exchange and and Office are good, but it's still a step backward from Windows Mobile 6.5. There's no support for 3rd party or enterprise apps. No mention of tethering or security certificates. Enterprise features such as have been promised at a future date, but I need a enterprise ready phone now. Maybe the Windows mobile 6.5 platform can be stretched to cover this need another year or two. But at this point, they're very little reason not to accept the reduced set of enterprise features and move to Android or the iPhone.

In its rush to grab a chunk of the consumer market, Microsoft may lose what market it had in the enterprise world.

Yes, but without surveillance, how else would Joh Fredersen know about the explosion at the M-Machine and the workers gathering? Rely on Josephat?