This is why I use PasswordMaker. I get a separate, secure password for every site, only have to remember a single password, (and a simple configuration) and don't have a list of passwords stored anywhere.
I'm constantly advocating for it yet nobody ever listens to me...
*sigh* Here we go again...
Trademarks are not necessarily exclusive, and while registering a trademark will go a long way in a court case, it will not guarantee a win. A trademark is simply what you are known as to consumers. Once upon a time, "Escalator" was a trademark. "Escalator"s became so popular that people began to associate "Escalator" with moving stairways. Since "Escalator" didn't protect it's brand, it slipped into generic usage and they lost their trademark. Now anyone is allowed to sell an "escalator".
This is why we have recently seen such a huge push from Xerox, Kleenex, and Google asking people to stop "xeroxing", "using a kleenex", and "googling". As soon as the usage of the word becomes a verb to the common person, instead of a noun, the trademark is lost. This is why companies will pour millions into branding efforts telling us to "Copy using a Xerox photocopier", "Use Kleenex brand facial tissue", or "Use the Google web search engine".
Additionally, Trademarks can be regional. There was at least one case of Kentucky Fried Chicken not being allowed to call themselves "Kentucky Fried Chicken" in Kentucky. Why? Because there was already a "Kentucky Fried Chicken" in town that people knew about. It didn't matter that some large company had the name also - the small guy was around first and was therefore allowed to keep the trademark in the region people knew them. (They would not have been allowed to open up a new store somewhere else though, as people in that area likely wouldn't have known about them but would know about the chain.)
The government will grant a trademark application to just about anything, as long as it doesn't already exist. It's up to the courts to determine if infringement has happened later on. In the case of something such as the game "Candy Land", which has been around for a long time, they would certainly prevail. (Unless they fail to protect their mark.)
A fun experiment can be done in the flight simulator X-Plane. It can simulate flying in the Martian enviornment. I haven't messed around with it, but from what I hear you need to get going about 600 kts in an airplane with giant wings that put the U2 to shame just to get off the ground.
Physics is a bitch... Change 1 tiny thing like pressure and it screws with everything else!
Beheading with an axe was, well, hit or miss.
My mod points don't give me an option for "worst joke ever".
I never used "Search Nearby", so what was the difference between that and putting "brothels near 1600 pennsylvania avenue washington dc"?
2 diferences:
1) Search Nearby did not need an address. You could use "my current location" for example, as a starting point. This is valuable or people who are unfamiliar with an area, because they might not even know an address for their location.
2) The example you gave -- which was Google's suggested workaround -- as often as not does not work, according to users.
The simple fact is that Google, yet again, took something that was well-thought-out, and was well liked and oft used by their users, and messed it up.
According to the forum linked above, Mapquest still has this feature. I might give it a try.
1) Simply search for "brothels near me" or "brothels near Washington DC"
2) I have never had a problem with the new maps just zooming to an area and doing a search for "brothels" in which a bunch of pins pop up on the map showing me all the local brothels.
Once upon a time they were a symbol of courage and freedom
Really? So why did America break away some 200 years ago then? Maybe they toned down their act for a few years in the middle, but this is just them reverting to their old ways.
(That being said, America is headed down that path as well...
So your fancy new laser system can shoot down several mortars in a small amount of time?
Challenge Accepted!
> I thought the US was supposed to be a christian country and slashdot was supposed to be am mostly american site (I say mostly because I am actually british)?
Yes, but
> And I don't think there are many people who would argue that the Old Testament was too lenient...
Challenge accepted!
openSUSE *does* provide a drop-down at login for the user to select their desktop of choice, and you *can* install multiple desktops at install time. (You just have to manually add them in addition to the desktop you chose in an earlier step.)
I think it will even remember the desktop you used on your last session and launch that one for you. (Although admittedly I haven't played around with that feature.)
I don't even think these features are specific to openSUSE - I think both the KDM and GDM login managers have them. If Ubuntu doesn't have them I think they were removed.
if($string = "100 percent efficiency"){
printf("Bullshit!");
}
Our tax guy loves to say "Tax software is no substitution for tax knowledge."
Software technically works fine, but it can't know *YOUR* personal situation and all the ins and outs of the many, many, many, MANY tax laws and how they affect YOU.
*Disclaimer* I did not read the article. (Anyone surprised)
By claiming that their 4th amendment rights were violated, they basically just pled guilty. The proper defense is "ZOMG some sicko hacked my WiFi!"
I don't understand these "bits" you talk about... how many punch cards is that?
This is actually a really good idea - take something that is designed to turn our kids into useless mush, and turn it around into a teaching opportunity on peaceful resistance and demonstration.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
