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Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rights
popo writes "Just when you thought ownership of intellectual property couldn't get any more absurd: The New York Times is reporting that the word 'Stealth' is being vigorously protected *in all uses* by a man who claims to exclusively own its rights. Not only has he gone head to head with Northrop Grumman, he has pursued it vigorously in the courts and has even managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth". What's terrifying is that he's gotten as far as he has."
Does this mean we have to change the C&C "stealth" tank to "unobtrusive and hard to see" tank"?
What's terrifying is that he's gotten as far as he has.
Not really, I'd just have to say that he's been very furtive and sneaky about it, indeed, he's acted quite surreptitiously about the whole thing.
Omit the registering and the lawsuit, and I might be interested.
Would it be unconstitutional if Congress made a law to... you know... just smack this guy with a rolled-up newspaper or something?
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
Stealth in action!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
... I'm the owner of PenIsland.com (Get your free pen from us) and I've received a few legal threats from several homosexually-oriented pornography websites (the url's of which I am not of liberty to disclose). This is an outrage, clearly all I am trying to do is provide the world with a service of free pens.
(In case you didn't realise, I don't own the domain and this post was a joke >.>)
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
Good thing I have a lithp, tho you can't come after me, Mr. Thmarty Panth
My UID is prime... is yours?
Otherwise you'd have people patenting words like "the" and "it"...
Aaaaugh! Aaaugh! Augh! Ohh! Don't say that word!
My site
managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth".
I had an acquaintance who worked at a company called Via Grafix in Pryor, OK. The company has been around at least since early nineties. Their website is viagrafix.com. He complained to me that they would get all this email about people asking about viagra. He said those people thought it said ViagraFix not ViaGrafix. I guess it was lucky they got the domain long before viagra came along.
They made a piece of software called DesignCAD, which is a stupid name, because CAD means Computer Aided Design.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
>> If programmers ran the world, the law would be clear, concise, and unambiguous
Just like Perl.
http://request-header.info
I mean, hoW many movies about AI weapons that turn evil do we need?
One. War Games. Everything since is crap.
And besides, Joshua wasn't really evil, just a little confused.
If programmers ran the world, the law would be clear, concise, and unambiguous. Or at least that's what they'd like to think. Anybody who's actually studied law knows that actual human interactions are full of corner cases, and ass-coverings easily outweigh the meat of most contracts.
Anyone who's ever spent any time programming has discovered something pretty similar.
The law's actually almost exactly like what a programmer would create:
1.0: Ten commandments. Look they're pretty obvious people. How the hell can you get them wrong.
1.0.1: Yes, it's still stealing even if you do intend to give it back.
1.5: Hmm. How did we miss rape? Technically you're not stealing anything physical. If she's unmarried, you're not coveting anything. OK, we'll add rape.
2.0: The seventeen commandments really don't have the same cool ring the ten commandments once had. So we decided to release 2.0: The Magna Carter.
2.7: OK, men can vote regardless of station in life. But they have to be over 21.
3.0 (Forked) So we decided to fork the law. A bunch of us used to work for BritainCo. but we were totally bummed out by their management. So we formed US Inc. We're still going to support legacy laws under the British system because, frankly, it works well enough, it's really big and it'd cost a fortune to overhaul it.
3.1 You know, let's stop calling these things version numbers. Let's call them "ammendments"
3.1.1 Adding guns. Everyone should be allowed a gun. It makes perfect sense in this day and age. If times change, people in the future will totally have the sense to understand this was an ammendment, relevent to the time, and so can completely be ammended back out, right?
etc.
We're up to 3.8.7.2.5.4.b.ii at the moment. At which point a lot of programmers are starting to talk about how they'd do it far better if they were allowed to create a truly optimized system.
At some point, no doubt, a Swedish guy will write a new system of basic laws and then others will build on it.
At which point the US will nuke him out of existence for sounding far too much like the German guy (Marx) who did something pretty similar and came up with a system that was bad for the entertainment industry and thus bad for America.
Someone who's this greedy... would discretely get his ass kicked one day
Do you mean stealthily?
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His logos are genius. Simply put, the most profound use of the pixel since Pong. The colors are bold, never sassy, bright and in your face. The word "Sentra" becomes more than mere syllables or phonemes: it becomes a visual orgasm!
Damn, I'm going to trademark "Cock", and "Money Shot" and take over the porn industry.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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I'm against unmitigated douchebaggery just as much as the next slashdotter, so I'm going to suggest that someone should really trademark this guy's name.
Then, every time he serves someone with legal papers, the trademarkee can write a C&D filled with flowerly language to him because the real, trademarked Leo "The Marktard" Stoller would never be such a mean person.
3.0 (Forked) So we decided to fork the law. A bunch of us used to work for BritainCo. but we were totally bummed out by their management. So we formed US Inc. We're still going to support legacy laws under the British system because, frankly, it works well enough, it's really big and it'd cost a fortune to overhaul it.
Happy Fork Day!
The guy claims to own "chutzpah" as well. What a putz.
you had me at #!
Do you mean stealthily?
No, it means he will receive an integer number of kicks in the ass. It's rather difficult to kick someone a fractional number of times.
With great power comes great fan noise.
For everything else, there are lawyers.
And you'll be hearing from ours shortly. Thanks.
Mastercard Legal Department.
And if anybody thinks this is cute, I wrote my own fucking will rather than pay some dirty pirate lawyer to do it. Any monkey could do it.
I hired a monkey to write my will, but all I got was the complete works of Shakespeare.
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"No, it means he will receive an integer number of kicks in the ass. It's rather difficult to kick someone a fractional number of times."
What if you do a half-assed kick?