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Corel is being buried alive, and at breakneck speed, by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and a former MS executive who, incidentally, also worked for the McKinsey consultancy firm which validated the post-MS investment strategic U-turn. Under the deal all Corel products would be privatized for a measly $30M. Corel shareholders - who've also pushed for Linux support long and hard - hope to canvass enough NO VOTES to scrap the deal but the raiders are tilting the rules in their favour.

It all went horribly wrong after the Linux powerhouse merger agreement between Corel and Inprise/Borland was derailed three years ago. We understand that Borland (in which MS had a shareholding stake) had valid reasons for pulling out under the agreed terms, but the combination would still have made perfect sense. Corel founder and CEO Mike Cowpland was soon ousted and CTO Derek Burney was named interim CEO. Conveniently soon afterwards Burney's half-acquintance, Microserf Tom Button, gave him a call and invited Burney for a visit at the MS campus and before we knew it, he had signed a $135M investment deal with MS, accompanied by an incredibly one-sided Alliance deal in which Corel had all the commitments and Microsoft basically none. In his debt of gratitude, Burney even promised not to sue MS over any anti-competitive tactics that MS "may" have used in their MS-Office offensives. Next Burney drew up a new strategy based on those commitments - again incidentally killing all Linux efforts and reducing emphasis on anything competing with Microsoft - and submitted his ideas for "validation" by McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm with strong culture of alumni networking.

Naturally, McKinsey also happens to have a long-standing and very intimate business relationship with Microsoft as consultants to their strategic planning. It should therefore be noted that Robert Uhlaner, the McKinsey executive partner who had been working as a consultant to Microsoft and who had "led the West Coast Corporate Finance & Strategy practice, supporting the firm's technology clients on strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), alliances, and premerger planning", was given a top executive position at Microsoft in February 2003, in which his aim is to "increase strategic alignment between the Microsoft's finance and business groups". That pretty well sums up what happened to Corel between the Microsoft investment and disinvestment, in just 2½ years! Questions arise as to what involvement Mr. Uhlaner had, officially or unofficially, with the Microsoft-supportive strategic advice given to Corel in late 2000 and early 2001, or with Vector's friendly and private purchasing of the Corel shares Microsoft held, which happened almost immediately after his arrival to Microsoft.

From 2001 onwards Corel milked the increasingly-abandoned WordPerfect Office for revenue while toiling away on its dotNET descendant. Staff was getting laid off as a three-year turnaround plan was revealed to be centered on a dotNET-based enterprise system for massaging corporate data and delivering it in realtime to any type of devices through extensive use of XML and SVG graphics. Corel even bought SoftQuad and Micrografx t

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Corel shareholders fight suspicious takeover deal

Corel is being buried alive, and at breakneck speed, by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and a former MS executive who, incidentally, also worked for the McKinsey consultancy firm which validated the post-MS investment strategic U-turn. Under the deal all Corel products would be privatized for a measly $30M. Corel shareholders - who've also pushed for Linux support long and hard - hope to canvass enough NO VOTES to scrap the deal but the raiders are tilting the rules in their favour.

It all went horribly wrong after the Linux powerhouse merger agreement between Corel and Inprise/Borland was derailed three years ago. We understand that Borland (in which MS had a shareholding stake) had valid reasons for pulling out under the agreed terms, but the combination would still have made perfect sense. Corel founder and CEO Mike Cowpland was soon ousted and CTO Derek Burney was named interim CEO. Conveniently soon afterwards Burney's half-acquintance, Microserf Tom Button, gave him a call and invited Burney for a visit at the MS campus and before we knew it, he had signed a $135M investment deal with MS, accompanied by an incredibly one-sided Alliance deal in which Corel had all the commitments and Microsoft basically none. In his debt of gratitude, Burney even promised not to sue MS over any anti-competitive tactics that MS "may" have used in their MS-Office offensives. Next Burney drew up a new strategy based on those commitments - again incidentally killing all Linux efforts and reducing emphasis on anything competing with Microsoft - and submitted his ideas for "validation" by McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm with strong culture of alumni networking.

From 2001 onwards Corel milked the increasingly-abandoned WordPerfect Office for revenue while toiling away on its dotNET descendant. Staff was getting laid off as a three-year turnaround plan was revealed to be centered on a dotNET-based enterprise system for massaging corporate data and delivering it in realtime to any type of devices through extensive use of XML and SVG graphics. Corel even bought SoftQuad and Micrografx to merge their technologies into the project codenamed Deepwhite. Great idea but with somewhat misguided execution.

In 2002 Corel managed to strike a few high-profile albeit limited OEM preload deals with the likes of Dell, HP and Sony. While Corel received little in terms of revenue from those deals, even that limited success must have come as a shock for Microsoft. "How dare those ingrate nobodies invade our holy turf!" could have been the likely reaction at Redmond. With the anti-trust spotlight under a friendly operator it was time for the final strike, and how better add insult to injury than by not just taking Corel out but actually keeping the corpse within the family!

In December 2002 the Paul Allen financed Vector Group, managed by a fo

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Doh! The quote above was from the google cache, the link above states "Perhaps more characteristicaly he quotted Groucho Marx in saying "Of course, you know, this means war.". " in referring to Bugs.

Google isn't usually this far behind :-)

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Just did a search and I'm seeing similar results - c64 had a dmca notice for Diablo,Dig Dug,Donkey Kong,Frogger,Mario,Pac Man,Soldier Of Fortune, Spider-Man (Game),Tron 2.0 (game). Same with mame.net for Pac Man They're even chasing dcc's eDonkey .. They're chasing eveything. The most interesting thing is the Incident #'s. Most agencies prefix their incident #'s with year, but this isn't the case.. their #'s are linear. Have they already submitted almost 1,000,000 ceast and decists?
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Google cache of the site, please note that the cache doesn't have the update that this story mentions. Although it does have some of the back story, for those who are interested.

Too bad they removed it. Now you'll have to look for it on google

Try google's cache...

found in google cache

License Information on GIF

"The U.S. LZW patent expires June 20, 2003, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004. "

The google cache of the pdf (converted to HTML by google) is here.

-Adam

It appears that the site is already...umm...slashdotted. Google's cached HTML version can be found here.

First of all, get off ritalin. It can cause permanent neurological problems, and is very bad for your health. Also, as far as I know, ADHD (and all the others) are usually nutrition disorders, and can be easily cured by changing the person's diet, and getting proper levels of sleep, etc.

So GET OFF THE RITALIN - I mean it

see this site (i quickly found a random one)

This is the 21st century my friend. Products aren't supposed to have a measurable amount of usefulness or quality. They are merely an excuse for other people to get their hands in your pocket.
Through comprehensive hyping and brainwashing (err, marketing) you could get a sizable amount of money out of selling a single turd. Ever heard of Merda d' Artista? It literally translates to "Artist's shit" and it IS shit. Very old shit but nothing more than human faeces. And yet, we are supposed to believe that it is a minimalist protest against the state of art (blah blah monocle polish yacht hampsters).
The thing sold for a bundle.

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It sounds like you fell for a line. Starting a truck doesn't waste much fuel. In fact, "fuel consumption during engine start-up is equivalent to about 30 seconds of engine idling."

Looks like the site is kaput.

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This possibility of 'opting out' of your rights seems to be specific to the UK implementation of the EWTD - see quote here

Along the same line, this link produces the following (with junk removed/changed so Slashdot would accept it):

[...]
Header: remcom.c,v 1.34 91/03/09 12:29:49 glenne Exp $
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Module name: remcom.c $
Revision: 1.34 $
Date: 91/03/09 12:29:49 $
Contributor: Lake Stevens Instrument Division$
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Description: low level support for gdb debugger. $
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Considerations: only works on target hardware $
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Written by: Glenn Engel $
Updated by: Amit Kale
ModuleState: Experimental $
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Modified for 386 by Jim Kingdon, Cygnus Support.
Origianl kgdb, compatibility with 2.1.xx kernel by David Grothe (dave@gcom.com)
Integrated into 2.2.5 kernel by Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.com)
thread support,
support for multiple processors,
support for ia-32(x86) hardware debugging,
Console support,
handling nmi watchdog
[...]

Grothe's previous experience with IBM is shown here.

There are probably a zillion coincidences like these; it is/was a small world at that time. With careful cutting of a select set of quotation marks, you can prove a lot.

Google cache here. No pics as usual, but the text content is mirrored.

And, if it does, do you have to taxi over potholes?

Google's cached version

2001:04b0:1e41:23ab:9090:263f:94b3:1202

Like that.

Yes, that's hexadecimal - yes, that's 16 bytes.

(That's also part of the registered AOL/Time Warner block, incidentally.)

here probably doesn't help the server to embed a wave file on your home page

Cool, another believer in the mindbody concept. Dr. Sarno made sense of everything and his book "The Mindbody Prescription" literally changed my life for the better. Here is another good link:

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc

Google cache of the above if you don't want to view a Word document

Everyone should read this stuff, whether you have pain or not. It really makes sense more than anything else.

I'm only suffering from pain in my wrists when i'm stressed, and I think it is *the* cause for it. If it was computer-over-useage, i'd have no wrists left....

I very much agree with this. Though in my experience, its not necessarilly stress on the concious level. I had RSI for a year and a half that was bad enough that it kept me from working, but I found a solution and no longer have any incidence of it. And these days I use my hands/arms all day long without a break and don't restrict myself in any way. Here are some links to the solution I used:

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc

http://www.premierhealthonline.com/tms.htm

For more info, Google for: sarno tms

I normally get flamed for posting this stuff, but that's expected. That first link gives a great summary. Read ALL of it and pay attention to what it says before forming an opinion.. I'd try to summarize the ideas myself, but I really can't explain it as well as that document does. For those who don't want to view a Word document, here is a link to the Google cache.

sadly, he won't get 12000 /.'ers.
especially with no direct link to donations.
as copied from google's cache of chewplastic.com,
which is back online.

think about it this way, people:
it could have been nearly any of us.
i've donated $30 and i hope others can feel as generous.

Sorry for the karma whoring but here is the google cache">google cache.

So, I went and looked it up. Turns out she won Miss Vermont in the Miss America pageant in 1999 (The one you linked to.) But, she also won Miss Vermont in the Miss USA pageant in 2001. (Their very slow site is here but there's no past winners link, you can see their description of her on this google cached page, apparently she was a judge last year.)

I'm going to go do something more interesting like watching paint dry now.

Absolutely correct. But never forget, what America has done in the past is good (Hoover Dam anyone?), if another nation out of similar reasons wants to do the same, it is bad.

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Looks like Hearst paid Mussolini to write articles and tried to pay Hitler also. Thats the first link I could find... Just do a search for Mussolini, Hitler, Hearst and payroll.
Hearst was certainly a strange guy. His mansion in california had(has?) kangaroos living in the yard that were imported from Australia.

The real problem is home access - as Hugh Daniel puts it, If you're a NAT on the Net, you're NOT on the Net." In particular, you're dependent on your ISP's firewalls for email, web, and general IP access to the real world, and greatly restricted in your ability to provide information services, especially anything your ISP isn't technically competent at, and you're subject to any filtering or censorship your ISP might do. The canonical example is the "Great Firewall Of China", which
tries to prevent Chinese residents from seeing anything about Falun Gong or other forms of thoughtcrime.

It's true that Asia's APNIC got a lot less of the address space than the US did, and they may need some more before the Great IPv6 Renumbering happens. According to IANA's List of IPv4 Address Space Assignments, more than half the Class A space is unused (either never assigned or returned by public-spirited organizations that are using newer technology such as CIDR.) Class B is probably the tightest, though supernets of Class C space took off lots of the pressure. IANA is hoarding the Class A space, and maybe this will push us toward IPv6 a bit faster.

ICANN was actively discouraging IPv6 use a couple of years ago (I haven't checked up on their evil plans lately...) Their method was to declare that they were going to charge $2500 for a /48, which is the smallest generally-allocated block of IPv6 space available - so if you wanted to own your own space, it was going to cost you. I suspect part of the reason was because they wanted the money, of course, and part of it was because they didn't want to lose control over a major chokepoint of the net, but also there's the more legitimate issue that deciding the right way to restructure routing for the future shape of the internet is going to be pretty difficult, and they'd rather delay the existence of working code in order to get rough consensus first.

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Maybe the Google cache will work better?

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Ok you're right, its probably not 98%. But this article is very informative about the matter. For the most part we share at least 25% with all living things and its probably significiently higher.

Insightful part:
Once again, the DNA comparison requires context to be meaningful. Granted that a human and ape are over 98% genetically identical, a human and any earthly DNA-based life form must be at least 25% identical. A human and a daffodil share common ancestry and their DNA is thus obliged to match more than 25% of the time. For the sake of argument let's say 33%.

The point is that to say we are one-third daffodils because our DNA matches that of a daffodil 33% of the time, is not profound, it's ridiculous. There is hardly any biological comparison you can make which will find us to be one-third daffodil, except perhaps the DNA.

I think thats an excellent point.

Oops. I goofed. Here it is

Here's the google cache

Here's a report (pdf) that discusses the interference effects of cell phones on aircraft: Interference Levels In Aircraft at Radio Frequencies used by Portable Telephones An html version is available on google.

Executive Summary

Measurements made on two types of civil transport aircraft confirm that transmissions made in the cabin from portable telephones can produce interference levels that exceed demonstrated susceptibility levels for aircraft equipment approved against earlier standards. Since aircraft equipment in this class is currently in use, and can be installed, and is known to be installed, in newly built aircraft, current policy restricting the use of portable telephones on aircraft must continue. Recommendations are made to reduce the interference risk and for further studies to understand more precisely the effects of interference to aircraft equipment arising from the use of portable telephones.

No, Google isn't slashdotted. What you linked to was a cached of the frameset (IMHO frames suck), which Google cache doesn't seem to handle very well. (View Page Source is your friend)

The google cache of the pages in the frames however, are here (toc.html) and here (intro.html).

/karma whore

No, Google isn't slashdotted. What you linked to was a cached of the frameset (IMHO frames suck), which Google cache doesn't seem to handle very well. (View Page Source is your friend)

The google cache of the pages in the frames however, are here (toc.html) and here (intro.html).

/karma whore

Yeah, it was fraud that did them in. There's a pretty good synopsis here (scroll down to Case 2).