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Slashback: NIC, Dastar, Defects
Was it ahead of its time or vice versa? BreadMan writes "After limping along for years, the New Internet Computer (NIC) company finally went under. Founded by Larry Ellison, NIC sold a diskless workstation running Linux targeted at home users that wanted internet access. From the spec sheet it looks like this would be fun as a hacking platform if you can get one on the cheap."
Way to GNU! xarium writes "Seems that in response to pressure from the FSF OpenTV has released the source code to all of its compilers. You can download the full package here (~18meg)."
Because a hard drive should not be a rhythm section.
Dynamoo writes "As previously noted in Slashdot, Fujitsu MPG3xx series hard drives have been failing in huge numbers. The U.S. law firm, Shepherd Finkelman Miller & Shah is currently conducting a class action against Fujitsu and HP for knowingly distributing faulty drives. According the this article in The Register, Gateway has now been lined up as a defendant.
The fault appears to impact MPG3102AT, MPG3204AT, MPG3307AT and MPG3409AT units manufactured in early 2001. If you have one of these, then it has probably failed already, if not you should replace it asap. If you're a customer of HP/Compaq you can visit the HP Hard Disk Drive Replacement Program site.
We had about 40 of these things fitted to Compaq DeskPro EXDs, and I can assure you the failure rate is pushing 100%."
In the public domain, no one knows you're a dog.
smiff writes "United Press International reports on Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox. Reversing lower court rulings, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Dastar did not violate the origin-of-work provision of the Lanham act. Dastar had taken public domain video, made some modifications, and sold it as its own product. Twentieth Century Fox sued claiming they should have been given credit for the video. According to Antonin Scalia, Dastar would have violated the Lanham Act if it had simply repacked the material and sold it as its own. But since Dastar made some minor changes, the Lanham Act doesn't apply.
While Dastar has been cleared under the Lanham Act, the Supreme Court sent the case back for a rehearing. The Fox video entered the public domain in 1977, but the book it was based on is still protected by copyright."
... or get off the pot. Brazilian Joe writes "The LinuxTag folks, as you may know, are responsible for a restraining order against SCO's claims in Germany. As a result, SCO has shut down its Germany web site. Story here."
who were badmouthing the Germans during the Iraq "Police Action"... They should ask them for help to shut SCO down here.
The German Blitzkrieg rolled over the SCO Website fast enough. I thought only the French and Iraqis could surrender that fast. ;-)
Beethoven used to write Sturm und Drang and now the Germans are shutting down SCO's revival of the genre.
As the Germans in Die Hard 1 would say...
Yippey Kai Yay!
That's simple. You are pathetic for thinking you can raise the public consciousness on this issue.
... So dumbass..
Let me drop you some science here:
40 compaq computers, all fitted with the drives in question. 40 computers fail. How in the f*ck do you come up with any number than 100% failure given that 40 out of 40 computers failed.
I sincerely hope that your post wasn't an attempt to gain mod points for being witty, because you have failed in not only being witty but being scientific about it. At best you have made yourself look like a retard.
If they had access to 10,000+ computers with these drives in them, the numbers could possibly be different, we don't know because they only have 40 and all of them have failed or are nearly failing. Even if the sample size is too low it is still the sample size they have to work with.
-1, Troll "look mommy I used a big word in my post" (annecdotal)
Probably because it was one of the rare dupes that got caught. We had this story here before.
I'll see your troll and raise you a flame!
YOU SUCK YOU FAG TROLL!
The GPL finally shows itself to be non-free. You do not have freedom with GPL software, as you do with software released under the BSD License. What's your answer to this fatal flaw in the GPL, zealots?