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You have until April 15 ... quickenman writes "I used TurboTax for many years but used TaxCut last year (2002) after they Put C-Dilla spyware into the program. TaxCut worked well (it lacked 1 form I needed) but TurboTax seemed to be a little more user friendly. I publish several free internet newsletters, "Dr M's Computer Tip List" and also "Dr M's Computer Tips"and have told my subscribers that the link to eliminate that C-Dilla spyware is still available even though Intuit no longer lists it on their web site. Go to: support.turbotax.com/kb/ViewDocument.asp?do cumentId=491&categoryId=80068"
All publicity is probably good publicity ... for Mike Rowe. bwhaley writes "Microsoft has eased is reins after the an unexpected battle from teenager Mike Rowe in defense of his "trademark infringing" domain, mikerowesoft.com. According to a Reuters article, 'Microsoft has indicated it may have overreacted to the Web site' run by Microsoft's namesake. Thanks to this Slashdot story and lots of others like it, Mike Rowe may be able to keep his domain after all."
I doubt that Mike Rowe is Microsoft's namesake ;)
Niue free wi-fi is not gone freitasm writes "In a previous Slashdot article the author said "The world's first free national wireless grid is no longer with us, after waves from Cyclone Heta swept over Niue's thirty metre cliffs, destroying everything." This turned now not to be what actually happened there. It is now known that the The Niue Internet Users Society stored everything in water proof containers before the cyclone hit the island" "Most of the equipment survived," said IUS-N technical manager, Richard St. Clair. "That's because we stored it all in a water-tight metal shipping container before the cyclone hit." "Some WiFi antennas were lost," said Emani Lui, who originally installed and tuned the antennas for the WiFi service. "But many have now been repaired or replaced and are functioning normally." Since then Telecom New Zealand has restored communications with the island."
CosmacVIP writes "The .nu domain manager says anyone who wants to help should make donations to the New Zealand Red Cross's Pacific Cyclone Relief Fund (www.redcross.org.nz), instead of registering .nu domain names, so the aid will go directly to those who need it most."
All depends on whom you ask. Greedo writes "This article at Wired contradicts earlier news that HP was working on getting WMA support built into their branded iPod. "We're not going to be supporting WMA for now," said Muffi Ghadiali, product marketing manager for HP's digital entertainment products group. However, one analyst said that between now and summer, HP may come up with a way to convert WMA to AAC, or an equivalent technical fix. I guess we wait and see."
After that, if it breaks, you get both pieces. Ieshan writes "Microsoft has just decided to resume support for Windows 98 and apparently other product lines, as mentioned in this CNN article. Well, I guess it didn't die for long. They say customers in developing countries weren't made aware of the changes. I say they probably realized that people in developing countries couldn't afford to upgrade entire networks, and might pursue alternatives."
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ALL these stories are DUPES!
(so is this comment)
Is the male "point of no return" a myth? I mean, if your mom catches you masturbating do you complain about blue balls to her and ask her if you can finish? I've never been caught so i don't know. Anyone?
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Mike Rowe gets to live? Yeah!!! :)
:)
Seriously, it's getting to the point where I wouldn't put it past microsoft to actually require a name change for guys like Mike in the next ten years... How blatantly wrong could they be? I'm surprised they didn't go after any website that had "Bob" in the name... cuz after all, that's a lot like their MS Bob...
On the flipside though, how long before people start changing their names just so they can get domain names? I'm eyeing Natalie H. Gritts myself... sure I'm a guy... but the domain name, and the right to keep it would be priceless, and worth the ackwardness...
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I don't know about everyone else, but we gave up on Intuit a long time ago, after they introduced a heap of serials/product keys just to install/upgrade. Between our numerous versions, and multiuser licences, trying to install Quickbooks/other Intuit shit was a nightmare. We'll never be supporting them again.
Now that MicRo is famous he could give in and change it to buttheadedsoftwarearchitect.com
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And this one is pushing what, two weeks?
Honestly, this is pretty bad even by Slashdot standards.
Well it's great they're still going to support 98, but ME? Come on! ME is quite possibly the worst OS Microsoft put out. Sure XP sends stuff to MS without telling you, and 98 is unstable, but at least they are useable operating systems. The worst thing about ME is that you can't restart in DOS mode, no matter what. Even though it runs on top of DOS, and you can use a boot disk to get to DOS, ME won't let you restart into DOS mode. Networking support is also a pain. By "a pain" I mean would rather get shot than try and get ME working with a network card. One time, when I didn't know the evils of ME, I tried getting a Realtek card to work. Bad idea! After almost a week of screwing with the computer, I formatted it and put (what I think is the best thing to come out of Microsoft) Windows 2000 on it. The card worked great in 2000. I thought 2k and ME are supposed to have the same TCP/IP implementations, the ones from BSD. I bet MS could save a TON of time and money by solving all ME problems with a free format and XP home installation.
Karma: Meh (Mostly from meh.)
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That's two dupes in one article. A slashdot record? All depends on whom you ask. Greedo writes "This article at Wired contradicts earlier news that HP was working on getting WMA support built into their branded iPod. "We're not going to be supporting WMA for now," said Muffi Ghadiali, product marketing manager for HP's digital entertainment products group. However, one analyst said that between now and summer, HP may come up with a way to convert WMA to AAC, or an equivalent technical fix. I guess we wait and see." Reported ages ago (a week? week and a half?) After that, if it breaks, you get both pieces. Ieshan writes "Microsoft has just decided to resume support for Windows 98 and apparently other product lines, as mentioned in this CNN article. Well, I guess it didn't die for long. They say customers in developing countries weren't made aware of the changes. I say they probably realized that people in developing countries couldn't afford to upgrade entire networks, and might pursue alternatives." And this one is pushing what, two weeks? Honestly, this is pretty bad even by Slashdot standards.
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why don't they sue this. It took me one whois to find it.
Possible trouble with the government owned monopoly telco according to the NBR magazine.
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According to this article in the (New Zealand) National Business Review the Niue Government doesn't like the competition from the Niue Internet Users Society and is using strongarm tactics to protect it's phone monopoly.
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This seems as good a time as any to introduce my new screename. Im not worried about being sued because old-school Napster never cared about copyrights.
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If I registered the site called MyGrowsSoft.com and used it to sell Viagra?
...spake 'nevermore'.
(apologies to Edgar)
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
Was I the only one to get a chuckle from the name of Microsoft's lawyers going after Mike Rowe? "Smart and Biggar" is so appropriate, though they lacked commonsense in this case.
...Have something in common.
I saw on a PBS special a few years back that the original Colonel Sanders, after selling off Kentucky Fried Chicken, opened a restuarant called the Colonel's Lady and was sued by KFC for using his name and his face to which they held the trademarks. The Colonel won eventually.
Just thought someone might think that was an interesting precedent.
Wait a sec... DRM's Computer Tip List? DRM's Computer Tips?
Don't fall for it! IT'S A COOKBOOK! IT'S A COOKBOOK!
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Mike Rowe is taking down mike rowe soft because due to all the "helpful" traffic he could not pay the internet bandwidth bill. I submitted this story to slashback but the dumb editors rejected it and instead claim slashdots publicity helped the poor guy. sheesh want incredible self serving disinformation; is karl rove working for Slashdot now?
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I don't know why it's such a big deal with TurboTax. After I filed it, I deleted the program, and removed the spyware. You can't use TurboTax 2002 this year, so why keep it. And since TurboTax 2003 is not copy protected, might as well use TurboTax this tax year.
Seriously. Patently obvious, and look at all the fishes jumping into his boat.
If Microsoft enforcing its trademark against MikeRoweSoft is an evil-empire action, what kind of precedent are we setting for other companies? I'm just going to start companies called Banc ov Amerika, Koka-Kola, Jonsen and Jonsen, Redd Hat Linucks, and Appul.
This guy said himself that he intentionally made a homophone of Microsoft just to mess with them. It's a clear-cut case of trademark infringement. I don't see the problem here.
However, one analyst said that between now and summer, HP may come up with a way to convert WMA to AAC, or an equivalent technical fix. I guess we wait and see.
What??? That makes about as much sense as converting ogg to mp3. It can be done easily, but it'll be lossy as hell - they're different formats, damnit. Maybe I could an analyst and then they could pay me to be dumb. Or better yet - a pundit. Bah.
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www.mightgrowsoft.com/
This domain's been around since 1997, and their site layout is strangely familiar. Not to bring any heat on them- this must be protected parody, or IP law is seriously broken.
Or I am crazy. Help me figure this one out.
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Reminds me of "Norman AntiVirus" that got shipped with my PC :)
Today, the lawfirm Luvim & Burnim, who represents both Microsoft and RIAA, plan to publicly apologize for the mixup involving MikeRoweSoft.com. The mixup was made when a secretary inadvertently swapped Microsoft files with RIAA files. Lawyers had then reported to Microsoft, not knowing they had RIAA paperwork in their briefcases instead of Microsoft paperwork. "This was totally unexpected. We didn't think it was usual for Microsoft to accuse a website of copyright violations," said Seymour Skinner. "I swore they only wanted to purchase the domain name." In a related story, the RIAA has backed down on their $100 million offer to purchase www.kazaa.com.
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Three days ago (Jan. 19) he posted on his site the news of the offer from Deafening-urge.net.
You posted this today, the 22nd. I can't help but point the self-serving disinformation finger back at you.
Damn, dude, that is seriously funny. Great reference. I don't know who modded you "insightful," but I think that's a masterfully funny post. And moreover, I think anyone who doesn't agree probably didn't get it.
I had a pretty horrible experience with TaxCut last year. There was a bug (triggered by my combination of being self-employed and renting my home) that refused to complete my taxes unless I filled out some fields that were non-applicable with values that satisfied TaxCut's constraints. Basically, it wouldn't let me file my taxes unless I filled them out with false and confusing information.
I call technical support, which of course is in India. All they could help me with were monkey steps involving turning on my computer, logging into Windows, etc. There was no process for escalating actual bugs to people that can help you work around or solve them. Classic horror story of outsourced tech support.
I wound up throwing TaxCut in the trash and filling out my forms by hand. I'm going to give TurboTax a shot this year -- hopefully I can work around the spyware.
...sued the head of clan McDonald, Lord Godfery MacDonald. He said: "McDonald is one the most famous names in the world. McDonald's everywhere must be furious at the way their name is being used."
There's nothing more dangerous than a bored lawyer.
So says this PC World article
Which is good, because (as I whinged in another comment) I had a horrible experience with TaxCut last year.
What??? That makes about as much sense as converting ogg to mp3. It can be done easily, but it'll be lossy as hell - they're different formats, damnit. Maybe I could an analyst and then they could pay me to be dumb.
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Am I missing anything, or is my tinfoil hat on too tight?
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I was thinking more along the lines of Dr. Mario, which you can play online in a Java applet or download for your GBA emulator.
No, I would say they are continuing to listen to their customers, just like they always do. There are SO many cases where they announced they were doing something, and they decided not to due to customers saying otherwise.
There was the retirement of the NT 4.0 MCSE, their decision to only use adaptive tests, the retirement of NT 4.0, etc etc.
The company listens to its customers. There is no ulterior motive here. If Burger King announced they were retiring their hamburgers to go strictly with chicken, but everyone wanted hamburgers anyway, how long would they stay in business?
They are just following intelligent business practices, since they cant claim some kind of 'right' to having customers, any more than any other company can.
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Evidently it has been a while, but according to The Register there has been a dispute with an Australian maker of synthetic pillows and duvets. One of their products is also called "Microsoft".
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I remember it was in Naked Gun when there was a crowd panicing and a religious guy was trying to palm off his "To Serve Man" books as a cookbook.
It was pretty funny.
This is great and everything, but who in the world is Natalie H. Gritts?