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U.S. Faults Microsoft Licensing Compliance
An anonymous reader writes "In a written report card on how well Microsoft is complying with its 2001 antitrust deal with state and federal prosecutors, Justice Department lawyers said they might need the court to force Microsoft to act more quickly." The DOJ's court filing is online if you want to wade through it.
Ouch. Raw nerve.
-uso.
Presently downloading XFree86 for Win98SE
Dreams, dreams, don't doubt dreams, dreaming children's dreaming dreams. Sailor Moon SS
When I got my new phone a month or so ago, after moving to a different state, Qwest offered me *unlimited long distance*(in US) for 20 bucks a month.
:-)
Shocked me.
I guess they're feeling the effects of 3 cents/minute phone cards
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
In any event, I far prefer the idea of a small number of trained armed policemen to the idea of every man/woman in a police uniform having a gun at his/her hip....
So would I. I was at that big anti-war protest in New York earlier last March, at one point I was in a crowd a couple miles from the protest where there were about 25,000 people severely crowded around four cops with guns and big 10 gallon cans of pepperspray. They were literally shaking in their boots, if one of them had panicked and used some of the pepperspray someone could have been shot when the cop was jumped. Or someone nuts in the crowd could have easily pickpocketed a gun and shot it. There were a lot of families with their children, some would have probably been trampled. Later as me and my friends finally extricated ourselves from the crowd a half dozen cops on horses came into the crowd and trampled some protestors, presumably coming to pick up the cops. I saw one horse trip on of the people it trampled and fall on the rider. If those cops in the crowd hadn't been carrying all that weaponry I'm sure they could have just walked out of there.
The whole protest was a mess, apparently they only expected 100,000 people and over 500,000 tried to get to the protest. There is an investigation apparently, but aside from the poor planning just the fact that they ruitinely carry guns causes problems. (That mini-crowd was caused by barriers on three sides that one of the feeder marcheres walked into, apparently it was supposed to just stage entry into the march, but they never let anyone past them because they were already full to capacity by straglers before the 40 organized marches to the protest even started, add to that that some vandal cut the phone cables to the protester's organizing office..big mess, the cops knew nothing, the organizers knew nothing, I think the fact that it was a peace march saved us from rioting, small kids were held above the crowd and people who really needed to get out were passed overhead if the people in the way couldn't move out of the way.)
It was my first protest so I had to confirm with the former office mate I went with that this wasn't normal. It took us 6 hours of walking to get to the protest, it was actually officially over by the time we got there. We were tired, cold, hungry and in need of a bathroom and left after we spied one of the screens showing the stage and taking a picture..actually one of the four of us gave up and went home three hours earlier, it was her first protest too and she just couldn't take it.