verizon standing up to the- (Found July 2, 2008 ) verizon standing up to the riaa. (story by declan mccullagh.) Verizon says it complies with requests regarding material that customers store on its servers. But because these allegedly illicit files reside on a peer-to-peer node, the company says, this is a novel situation, and a DMCA subpoena is not sufficient. "Verizon looked carefully at the subpoena. This is different from anything they had sent us in the past," said Sarah Deutsch, a vice president at the telecommunications company. "It...http://www.theobvious.com/unfiltered/000364.html file under "they must have- (Found July 2, 2008 ) file under "they must have this feature, let's check the help documentation to make sure." the google toolbar supports an alt-g keyboard shortcut, which puts the cursor focus in the google toolbar search box and auto-selects any existing search strings there.http://www.theobvious.com/unfiltered/000365.html patently news: bt has lost- (Found July 2, 2008 ) patently news: bt has lost its hyperlink patent case, while a (quris-built) schwab news alert alerted me to the fact that a judge has issued a "permanent inujnction requiring cable & wireless plc to shut down digital island footprint 2.0 service," because it infringes on akamai's patent.http://www.theobvious.com/unfiltered/000366.html the new york times on- (Found July 2, 2008 ) the new york times on the recent spate of emails from airlines regarding their (precarious) financial situation: Though the tone of the message was generally measured, the use of capital letters near the end to assure customers that United would "CONTINUE TO FLY A SAFE AND RELIABLE AIRLINE," and would "HONOR MILES PREVIOUSLY EARNED IN MILEAGE PLUS," perhaps inadvertently conveyed a hint of panic or instability that has come to be associated with the use of the caps-lock key when communicating.http://www.theobvious.com/unfiltered/000370.html glenn fleishman outlines what i- (Found July 2, 2008 ) glenn fleishman outlines what i believe would be show stoppers in a decision to "switch" from windows to osx. his complaints: entourage corrupted his mail database; entourage doesn't connect to exchange servers (and there's no announced plan for an outlook client for os x); the palm conduit for entourage is non-existent; and track changes in word is unreliable. that last one would kill me...http://www.theobvious.com/unfiltered/000354.html |