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Darl Goes to Harvard
colinmc151 writes "Both Groklaw and Internet News are reporting on the visit made to Harvard University by Darl McBride, SCO president and CEO, and Chris Sontag SCO senior vice president. Darl and Chris made a presentation titled 'Defending Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Age'. One protester gave out copies of Linux to all that attended. Bottom line SCO plans to carry on with the lawsuits. Best line was one student who when Darl asked if he was impacted by MyDoom.A e-mail virus answered 'No, I use Linux'." One MIT student has a write-up of the event as well...
Local PETA Protest Disrupted by Protesters
3.2.04
A fashion show in downtown Manhattan was crashed today by members of the "Animal Suffrage Now!" wing of the group PETA. PETA, whose members are allegedly responsible for some of the more disturbing pornography to be found on the internet, took claim for the disruption in a press release which stated "The hegemony of mankind over our furry brothers must be subserviated to the 'one animal, one vote' paradigm!" When it was pointed out to one protester, a naked woman painted to resemble a marmoset, that the lingerie show in question featured no animal products of any kind, she began to shout "no justice, no peace!" This reporter was about to slap the woman for being a reactionary twit when the PETA disruption was suddenly disrupted by a group of pale youths wearing "Star Trek: TNG" shirts who were chanting "Hey hey! Ho ho! Fuck you Darl and SCO!" When the PETA protesters began to protest the protest of their protest, the newly-arrived group began to pelt the animal-supremacists with CD-R's which contained various "distros" of a computer system called Linux. The scene was further complicated by the arrival of a flock of seagulls which began to hop about madly, snapping up the loose CD-R's and calling "Mine! Mine!" Even more curious was the fact that each seagull bore a small nametag reading "Hello! My name is Darl!"
Check out Eric Jonas' sister, Courtney.
Not bad at-tall...
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"Equal opportunity swindling - *that* is the true test of a sustainable democracy."
As I said, this may be off-topic, but I need some help and am willing to burn the karma to get the information I need.
I am a law student looking to write a paper on M$'s licensing of SCO's "code." I am looking for information about M$'s licensing agreement - particularly any credible sources that suggest it was unnecessary for them to do so. In other words, are there any credible sources out there that state there was no other purpose for M$ to license the code other than to help fund SCO's litigation?
I'm not asking anyone to do the research for me - I was just wonder whether anyone had such information bookmarked or easily available. I'd really appreciate any help, as the point of my paper is to attack both SCO and M$ in the same breath.
Thanks.
Curious George now lives in the White House.
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/34487 79.stme _east/st ory.jsp?story=486950
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middl
Stampede brings tragedy (sic) to Hajj
A stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has killed 244 people, says the minister in charge of the event, Iyad Madani.
The disaster happened as pilgrims flocked to the Jamarat Bridge in Mina, near Mecca, to hurl stones at pillars representing the devil.
"There was more than 400 metres of people pushing in the same direction (which) resulted in the collapse of those next to the stoning area... and those behind. That led to panic," he said.
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Amusing! "The stoning area"! "pillars representing the devil"! Someone remind me - is this Monty Python, or just some seriously fucked up individuals? I wonder if this'll make it to the Darwin Awards?
The Internet News article states:
"...the MyDoom.A e-mail virus, which targeted Outlook and Outlook Express users and installed malicious code..."
To the best of my knowledge this is one of the few worms which does NOT specifically target/exploit Outlook/Outlook Express!
This one relies on stupidity ONLY, as far as I know, and a Windows OS.
Incidentally, using Linux wouldn't have stopped the flood of mails this one has generated at my work. But I guess it could protect a moron from running the executable properly.
Sorry for being a nitpicker.