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  1. Re:When you're hiring lawyers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Johnson & Johnson Loses Major Trademark Lawsuit

    When was that? I just looked at Wikipedia and the official site and didn't see any red crosses on the packaging.

  2. Re:Hard to defend the trademark... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 1 · on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games

    > Really? look more carefully. All the ones you can buy now have a
    > green cross on them - at least in the UK/Europe.

    Doesn't carry over to the US. The Johnson & Johnson bandages in my bathroom cabinet have a red cross on them...and a check of their website (http://www.bandaid.com/kits.shtml) indicates they still use it. It even has an (R) mark on it. They do include a disclaimer on the side of the package (and on the website) stating that "The RED CROSS design" is their registered trademark, and disclaiming any connection with the American Red Cross.

    Chris Mattern

  3. Re:Hard to defend the trademark... by Prendeghast · · Score: 1 · on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games

    Furthermore, in the US, the red cross appears to be a registered trademark of Johnson and Johnson, although they do take care to point out "Products bearing this trademark have no connection with the American National Red Cross."

  4. Re:ICRC can't pick and choose by FortranDragon · · Score: 1 · on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games

    I just checked on the legal indicia on the Band-Aid site (http://www.bandaid.com/kits.shtml) and saw this: "The RED CROSS Design is a registered trademark of JOHNSON & JOHNSON. Products bearing this trademark have no connection with the American National Red Cross". So using a Red Cross for specific things (trademark law) is legally viable in the US at least.

    As far as MASH goes, given the show was ostensibly portraying "facilities for the care of injured and sick armed forces members", I can't see the Red Cross having a leg to stand on. :D

  5. Fundamentally Bad Design + Lotsa Features by billstewart · · Score: 1 · on Zimbra Collaboration Suite Launched
    I've used Exchange/Outlook/MSMail for over a decade, and it really has improved a lot, but it's still a fundamentally broken system - in spite of how addictive the calendar system is once you start using it. Because the protocols aren't an open standard, you're either stuck using Outlook as a client if you want the full feature set, or using POP3 clients with limited features, and that means that all the things wrong with Outlook are your problems also.


    The original product was designed to work in a NetBIOS LAN-only file-server environment, with a proprietary dialup interface hacked on later, and SMTP client support grudgingly and unreliably added even later. Back in 1994, it was the third-worst mail system I'd ever used, and I'd been online over a decade using and managing a wide variety of mail systems. Many BandAids, kilometers of duct tape, and spools of baling wire later, it's had some LDAP-like stuff added underneath, and it's possible to use on a laptop that's sometimes attached to your work LAN, sometimes disconnected, sometimes on random wireless or wired internet or private-net connections, and it usually doesn't get hosed up on me more than once a week, refusing to let me queue email or refusing to transmit the queued stuff or access my calendar or whatever, but it's really still made for people whose computers are tethered to their desktops 7x24x365 and have a big air-conditioned server farm for Exchange to live on. And don't even get me started about what helpful header-munging does to spam-filtering, or why I can't run my own black/white/keyword/filter lists without getting disconnected from the corporate filters our IT droids run.

    The calendar's integration into Exchange's proprietary protocols is a major reason for its success and continued purchases of upgrades - but a Calendar program could just as easily have been built around HTTP/CGI, which would allow most email clients that support clicking on URLs to access it, and allow a much wider variety of client programs and clientless browser interfaces, so you wouldn't have to go to the overhead of firing up Outlook just to check your calendar - a major issue in a laptop environment.

  6. Re:This is pretty big!--The Feds missed one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Massive Online ID Fraud Ring Busted

    I just sent a complaint email to the abuse team responsible for Net access at a particular USA educational institution that is now hosting, at time of writing, a fake eBay 'phish' site. Presumably, it's just a compromised system cracked by outsiders--if not, then somebody there at said institution has got some 'splaning to do!

    The Feds may pay lip service to the spam email problem with Band-Aid approaches like the CAN-SPAM Act, but fvck with the USA money supply (via ID theft in this case) and they will take notice!