I'm not running napster. I'm not running illegal MP3s.
When you have stupid laws, you generate contempt for the law. You cause people to break them.
Do you contend that if you ever went over the speed limit, you can't comment when they make the speed limit of a a section of a highway 3.14159 mph?
Tougher laws do not equate to better laws, or better enforcement.
Did you ever think that we do have respect for IP law? The CPHack situation is a good example, it is FAIR USE, but Mattel being a bully stomps on the rights of the authors to make fair comment. DeCSS is another good example, it was not done to make copies, but so that people who have bought DVDs can play it on their own system without being forced to run Windows!
It was not meant to be funny. It was true. But this is also the same lawyer that kept trying to argue in support that software engineers use the keyboard only 20% of the time.
He saw the albino gator using the sparks from his pepermint lifesaver. He almost got eaten by the gator, but the gator exploded from the pop rocks and coke it just swallowed.
Are there any other legends I left out?
Redundant is the point!
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Since this is about urban legends, the whole point is to be redundant.
If these things were not redundant, then it would not have become an urban legend?
Got it from my geek lawyer.
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This is not original. I got it from my geek lawyer.
This includes most of the urban/internet legends. It did leave out the albino gator (or crockodile).
What about teledildonics anti-viral?
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Do they include anti-virus software for the teledildonics product line?
All True!! Because I read it on the internet!
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I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's (sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals) when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken - which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC. Anyway, one day this friend went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said, "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive and infect all the electronics in his house if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. Government will put a tax on your e-mails forever.
I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.
Email virus can be true now!
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What CNet forget to mention, is that if you do open some email, it can be a virus. That's if you use Micrsoft LookOut..ooppp. OutLook.
I had to explain what Mozilla is to Mattel
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I almost had to explain what Mozilla is to Mattel's attorney.
During one of my three days of deposition with them, they asked me what is Mozilla, since they saw that in some of the emails. My attorney explained it to them.
I sat in on a BARI MPRE review a few months ago. I had a friend taking it, so I sat in the back of the room and waited (while I wrote code on my Thinkpad).
One of the points made, is that a lawyer is not required to take every case that comes through the door, they are not a gas station attendant.
Even in house counsel is not required to file every case that management orders.
That is why they have FCRP 11, though it is not enforced enough.
You also left out that if a judge can order a lawyer to take a case. And while in a case, a lawyer may have to request permission to leave the case.
My last example with someone mowing the lawn is correct. You have approved by your action/inaction. Of course, there would be the dispute of price. There is also the concept of unjust enrichment.
What requires a contract to be in writing is known as the statute of frauds. It is different in most states, but generally applies to real estate, large amounts of money, agreements to pay debts of others, and contracts that take more than a year to complete.
Receiving something in the mail and keeping it is a matter of statute. It is different from the guy who mows your lawn, or details your car while you watch.
The true power of the net is the accessibility of the net to the masses!
Us geeks could always use a tunneling protocol over the net. Or special pages that require decryption plug-in which will ask for the average flying speed of an unladened European swallow, or for the name of the CPM debugger, before granting access.
The only reason why the CPHack, DeCSS, and my case have been issues is because non-geeks find out and have access to that information.
The paperboy who delivers your paper (or at least when I was one) did not have a signed contract.
Phone orders are not signed.
When you buy food at a store, gas at a gas station, you usually do not sign a contract.
If a guy mows your lawn, even if you don't ask, and you watch, you still owe him the money (presuming you did not tell him to stop). That is a contract.
For a while, the internet was ruled by geeks and corporations could not stop us.
Now, corporations have taken control (and on occassion rightly so).
What is happening, is that regular media, and non-geeks have been paying attention and realizing what is going on. They realize that this actually effects them, and not just some geek's problem.
What has happened with the Mattel/MSI/CyberPatrol issue here, is that it had become more mainstream. People are waking up and realizing that some company abusing up a little guy, is not just some crackpot or some hacker. But they are starting to realize that they might be next.
Things will turn when the press will actually print the truth, and not rehash company press releases. Or is that what people not on the net complain about too?:)
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When you have stupid laws, you generate contempt for the law. You cause people to break them.
Do you contend that if you ever went over the speed limit, you can't comment when they make the speed limit of a a section of a highway 3.14159 mph?
Tougher laws do not equate to better laws, or better enforcement.
Did you ever think that we do have respect for IP law? The CPHack situation is a good example, it is FAIR USE, but Mattel being a bully stomps on the rights of the authors to make fair comment. DeCSS is another good example, it was not done to make copies, but so that people who have bought DVDs can play it on their own system without being forced to run Windows!
It was not meant to be funny. It was true. But this is also the same lawyer that kept trying to argue in support that software engineers use the keyboard only 20% of the time.
Are there any other legends I left out?
If these things were not redundant, then it would not have become an urban legend?
This includes most of the urban/internet legends. It did leave out the albino gator (or crockodile).
Isn't opening the email an intervention?
So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S. Government will put a tax on your e-mails forever.
I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.
During one of my three days of deposition with them, they asked me what is Mozilla, since they saw that in some of the emails. My attorney explained it to them.
My attorney is a geek too.
If CP was hacked and they said, you can look at the code for $$$, do you think anyone would hear of them?
Damn it Dave, Install me. You know you want to!
They added .3 to 4.7 and got 6.0.
I was not critizing them. I was critizing all the people who said that they wimped out . That it's easy to be an armchair quarterback.
I also was pointing out that I am not, that I have fought the monster and lived to tell about it. They just didn't want me to.
One of the points made, is that a lawyer is not required to take every case that comes through the door, they are not a gas station attendant.
Even in house counsel is not required to file every case that management orders.
That is why they have FCRP 11, though it is not enforced enough.
You also left out that if a judge can order a lawyer to take a case. And while in a case, a lawyer may have to request permission to leave the case.
What requires a contract to be in writing is known as the statute of frauds. It is different in most states, but generally applies to real estate, large amounts of money, agreements to pay debts of others, and contracts that take more than a year to complete.
Receiving something in the mail and keeping it is a matter of statute. It is different from the guy who mows your lawn, or details your car while you watch.
Do you think they would try to explain to people who had a clue?
Did you get the Y2K bug fixes completed?
Sorry, it just slipped out.
People like you said it's just your case, get on with your life.
People like you said, it's just your bitching.
A bully is a bully. They should not be rewarded for a bully. People should not forget what they have done.
I am not the first employee that Mattel abused! Read Barbie's Betrayal.
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Maybe they could give lessons on how to encrypt well.
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And of course, this ruling may not be applicable to your jurisdiction.
It still does not stop them from litigation the case over and over. They plan on appealing, of course.
Ah, he's just a little guy with a slingshot. I'm not afraid. --- Goliath
Us geeks could always use a tunneling protocol over the net. Or special pages that require decryption plug-in which will ask for the average flying speed of an unladened European swallow, or for the name of the CPM debugger, before granting access.
The only reason why the CPHack, DeCSS, and my case have been issues is because non-geeks find out and have access to that information.
Phone orders are not signed.
When you buy food at a store, gas at a gas station, you usually do not sign a contract.
If a guy mows your lawn, even if you don't ask, and you watch, you still owe him the money (presuming you did not tell him to stop). That is a contract.
Some contracts are to be in writing though.
For a while, the internet was ruled by geeks and corporations could not stop us.
Now, corporations have taken control (and on occassion rightly so).
What is happening, is that regular media, and non-geeks have been paying attention and realizing what is going on. They realize that this actually effects them, and not just some geek's problem.
What has happened with the Mattel/MSI/CyberPatrol issue here, is that it had become more mainstream. People are waking up and realizing that some company abusing up a little guy, is not just some crackpot or some hacker. But they are starting to realize that they might be next.
Things will turn when the press will actually print the truth, and not rehash company press releases. Or is that what people not on the net complain about too? :)