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Comment: re:the ticket will be charged to the rental agency (Score 1) 506

WORD -this happened to me in Italy several year ago.

I was in Florence in the summer and went through a 'no congestion' zone more than twice in 20 minutes or whatever the time limit was

apparently in the winter when tourism drops they just have people review video footage or something because 6 months later I got a $150 charge from the rental company

Since they didn't notify me I first thought it was a fraudulent charge, so I contested it at first and then they sent me the date and time of the infraction and I realized what had happened...

-I'm just sayin'

Comment: Re:Old news (Score 1) 33

by hguorbray (#43732703) Attached to: Gene Wolfe To Be Honored At Nebula Awards
well, the event is tomorrow night, so it seemed appropriate to remind those in the Bay Area to try to see him

also -note to eds -I'm sure the presentation time on Sat is 7pm PDT -NOT EDT

I've been trying for years to get a story posted -I proofread it carefully -and then it gets edited because there weren't enough errors apparently...

-I'm just sayin'

+ - Gene Wolfe to be honored at Nebula awards weekend in San Jose -reading on Thurs->

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hguorbray writes "One of my favorite Sci Fi authors of all time, Gene Wolfe, will honored with the Damon Night Grandmaster award at the Nebula Awards weekend in San Jose this weekend. This Thursday night he will be doing a reading and Q&A along with Connie Willis (author of the Doomsday book, etc) http://www.sfinsf.org/ at the San Jose hilton and there will be a mass book signing event Fri including these authors and many others presented by San Francisco's awesome Borderlands books: http://www.borderlands-books.com/about_events.html"
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Comment: Potential for abuse... (Score 1) 200

by hguorbray (#43725375) Attached to: In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter
I can see this abused by organizations and individuals who have perpetrated frauds on people or who have acted in other devious and underhanded ways to make it more difficult to find sites that expose their activities (ie Scientology mind control, fraud, etc)

All they would have to do was to point to some civil suit that they had against the people making the alleged false claims to 'prove' that they were fighting these baseless accusations and that the results should be removed from autocomplete

I can see this also requiring rooms full of lawyers testing google searches to look for potential infringements.

the thing that comes to my mind is anytime I see a questionable website in an email or webpost I run it through google and it often suggests 'malware', 'virus' or 'trojan' which might offend someone who was selling some piece of crap like 'speedupmypc' or something

-I'm just sayin'

Comment: Re:pay phones (Score 1) 179

by hguorbray (#43478263) Attached to: Why It's So Hard To Make a Phone Call In Emergency Situations
not to mention during disasters such as the Loma Prieta earthquake (of which I was about 7 miles from the epicenter) when I don't believe we even had a dial tone for the first day on residential lines (although there were a lot of lines down in the Morgan Hill-Gilroy area fwiw).

-I'm just sayin'

Comment: Re:IANAL: DMCA and Trademark Infringement (Score 1) 232

by hguorbray (#43240375) Attached to: GoPro Issues DMCA Takedown Over Negative Review
yeah this seems pretty weak -but they are probably looking at the examples of people like Oracle and MS who prohibit customers from running and publishing benchmarks on their software.

However, that is probably part of the licensing agreement and not something that one would expect to apply to a piece of off-the-shelf consumer gear

hopefully they'll get bitch slapped for this in the courts as well as in teh court of public opinion

-I'm just sayin'

Comment: reboot? (Score 4, Interesting) 253

by hguorbray (#43112149) Attached to: Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars
Hopefully this will allow for an Abrams style reboot of the franchise as has been done with Star Trek and pass the torch to new young actors who can hopefully age gracefully for the next 10-15 years...

now all they need is enough story and character to cover about 7 hours of movie for parts 7-9

I heard that some of the clone war writers were pretty good -or maybe alan Dean Foster???

-I'm just sayin'

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