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Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front
An anonymous reader writes "Dennis Ritchie has acknowledged he with Ken Thompson wrote the code cited as 'proof' by SCO. This seems to fit perfectly with Bruce Perens' Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show, and undermine Blake Stowell's claim 'At this point it's going to be his word against ours." Andreas Spengler writes "In the ongoing battle between SCO and the Linux community, German publisher Heise has shown that not only was the Linux implementation of the Berkeley Packet filter written outside of Caldera (now SCO), but that it was common practice there and at other companies to remove the BSD copyright notices from the internally used source code. In effect, SCO has proven publicly that they violated the BSD license." (Warning, article is in German.) Finally, a semi-anonymous reader writes "Learn all about how IBM's stomach will be roasted on a pyre of CDs at WeLovetheSCOInformationMinister."
The important detail in your link is that this person a) had trouble removing the coffee cup lid and b) held the fresh cup of coffeee between her legs to try to pry the lid off.
I wouldn't even try to hold a cup of room temperature liquid between my legs to try to get the lid off because obviously it will end up in my lap... a large part of the cup's rigidity comes from the lid; the amount of pressure required to "hold" a cup between your legs while you conjure with the lid will obviously collapse the cup if the lid is removed.
I hate large corporations as much as the next man (and probably about a hundred times more, for anyone who has seen my slashdot posts), but sometimes stupidity is just stupidity.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
Oh bite me.
I'm so sick of people trying to portray this nonsense as reasonable. Yes the coffee was hot. It was advertised that way. Everyone knew it was hot. I and many many others bought that same hot coffee day after day for years. We wanted it that hot, so it would still be a good temperature after we finished driving to work and had time to drink it. It came with a little cardboard holder and a cover that, when you were ready to drink, you could open in a controlled way so that it stayed mostly covered even then.
Then one idiot clenched it between her legs to wrestle the lid of and sued McDonalds when she, predictably, burned herself. And because of her, you can't buy coffee hot enough to still be drinkable when you finish your commute anymore.
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But... let's say it was something else.. like you pried it off on a table using your hands.. and it spilled by accident because your 90 pound rottweiler decided to tackle-hug you at the same time. And it spilled, and caused 3rd degree burns over most of your lower left arm and hand, instantly burning away the skin and doing severe muscle damage. Let's say you had to go to the hospital and have a series of skin grafts, and were basically in excruciating pain for weeks, and disfigured for life.
Now, let's say you find out that that coffee was considerably hotter than every other restaurant would serve coffee, perhaps that's why you didn't treat it with as much respect.
ie: People know coffee is hot, yes.. but they do not treat coffee the same way they would treat boiling hot water. We know there is a distinct difference in the level of danger to our persons.
She didnt' sue cause she got a little burn, she sued cause she was burned extremely severely..
Do they teach physics in US schools?
Water boils at 100 degrees celcius. Above 100 cegrees celcius, it isn't water, it's steam. So it can't be held in a coffee cup of any kind. What was in the macdonalds coffee cup was water containing a suspension of coffee grounds and a very small amount of disolved material. It is simply impossible that, on the surface of the earth exposed to the atmosphere, it could have been above 100 degrees celcius.
Personally I find coffee near 100 degrees celcius unpleasant to drink, and it can cause minor blistering of the lining of my mouth. But there's no way it can cause 'instantaneous destruction of skin, flesh and muscle'. Furthermore, black coffee is routinely served at or near 100 degrees celcius - everywhere. The case was frivolous. So is SCO's.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
You speak of this "hot" as if it were only one thing. Since everyone knows that french fries are hot, for example, would it be OK for McD's to server french fries at 280 C? If you burned yourself, I'll just say, well, duh, everyone knows french fries are hot? Not all hot water has the same propensity for damage.
XML causes global warming.