True -- and if the kid did, even jokingly, mention that his applying soft to the end of his name to make it sound like MS, he'll have to deal with that.
Eh, 10 was too little, 10k was unreasonable, I'll be interest in what happens in the end.
The kid should get creative and buy some different URLs after (likely) losing this one. MikeRoweWave, MikeRoweScope, etc.
Crap. Your post reminded me I could probably press the Especially Secret Crack key ("Esc") on my kayboard and avoid these ads. I wonder if that means that the Esc key will be illegal, like the Shift key is now. That's two keys down, 99 (or so) to go!
They'll pry "Scroll Lock" from my cold, dead hands!!!
True, MS has an inherent requirement to defend its mark, but remember also that Mike Rowe has inheent rights on his own name. It will be on M$ to prove that he is intentionally abusing his legal name to profit off of M$. their little tactic would have worked -- when it was original 5 years ago, but has been done so often that it loses potency and shrivels as a defence (is micro, and soft?)
A similar thing happened in Jamaica, when McD's moved in and found that a local restaurant(owned by a fellow called McDonald) was already in business. McD's sued -- and lost. It helped that their menus didn't overlap very much... but McD's was unable to open a store in Kingston until the suit was completed, which was amusing.
The best part of the fool article is the closing byline, when the author displays his true fear about SCO's likelihood to have any success:
"Seth Jayson is currently struggling through a new Linux install on a computer he built from an old wood crate. SCO may serve his papers at FoolishSeth@sethj.com."
I think he has something to hide re: the whole pirating thing. The article mentions that his lot is right beside the "landmark El 7 Mares fish-taco stand on Sunset Boulevard."
486s, yeah, those are painful. We received some as a donation and found very little use for them, even in a development situation (of course, they had 160MB HDDs, no memory, very little capability to expand with, no working NICs or PCI slots). That being said, if you are willing to slap a nice Linux on top of the machines, add some educational software (Tux4Kids is a good place to start), it can be a valuable donation, if it has decent hardware (i.e. not like the ones I described).
You might consider international donation, check out the PeaceCorps.gov website to see if anyone's posted a request for computers, donate them to a GoodWill, etc.
how embarrassing it is to accidentally grep for the wrong pattern on a first date...
Then she goes "AWK!", and I'm like, "What, I SED something?" Then she goes all network-talk on me, talking about fingering, and ports. Man, it's stressful.
Cybercafes, coffee houses with Internet/wireless fun, etc. If they get antsy about you sitting there all day sucking their bandwidth, but not much coffee, down, offer to set up a web page for them in exchange of continuing to sit there (or move to a more laid-back coffee house...)
Lots of interaction with a surprisingly regular set of people who work there at that shift and/or come in for their coffee/newspaper/pastry/snack/etc.
Try to support a local business, instead of a starbucks, with this, tho.
How is this not an international please-spam-me,-here's-my-favorite-and-most-privat e-email-address list? Even if it prevents US companies from spamming you, it's like a golden list for most spammers in the world.
And even if they MD5 each address or something not-totally-braindead, it turns into a us spammer hash-checking, finding it on the do-not-spam list, and selling it to a foreign counterpart as a quality address.
I checked my spam preferences upon receiving this in Y! and found no changes to them. Perhaps it is not switched over, but let's not bitch and moan too much. They're better than hotmail (not saying much), and they do give a lot for free.
Hell, use a Y!-provided filter to filter Y!, good for the problem, and supports irony in the universe.
no, it'll be up down up down left right left right A B A B Select Star.... wait, no, that's the secret +5 karma bonus code.
I agree that gestures are often over the top, a few of them are nice, forward and back and reload are handy, but the longer ones are... well, the modern day equivalent of the quadruple bucky.
It would be a fun way to hide cookies in web pages...
But when there are well-established browser-side projects to manage this, integrated, across any website, with user-customization (or non-use), the point is what, again, exactly?
Reading this is taking too much time away from my own project to code the "Stop Loading this page" feature in javascript. (j/k)
Let's give Novell a good hip-hip-hooray, as they're the unsung hero in this fray. IBM among others are giving great support, but Novell is consistently issuing strong anti-sco press releases. Check out their press room. My fave quote so far:
"To Novell's knowledge, the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of UNIX from Novell does not convey to SCO the associated copyrights," Messman said in the letter. "We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those copyrights. Apparently you share this view, since over the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected."
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05 /p r03033.html (This is from way back in May, FYI)
The problem with a governmental intervention is scope. OK, great, so no spammers are sending through US relays. Fan-frickin-tastic. Most don't anyway...
Are we going to levy a tariff on all emails in from abroad? How, exactly?
The solution to spam won't be legal. not to say laws against spam aren't good, as if someone's stupid enough to spam from and to the wrong state, they can be fined. However, *laws will not cure spam*, because there will always be a country that doesn't pass an anti-spam law...
I mean, it sorta kinda records. Playback is increasingly fuzzy with time (with the odd exception of tag lines from SNL near office water coolers, or Monty Python quotes in environments lacking in females)
"sorry, sir, but after we search your backpack, please step into the operations theater for a quick lobotomy. Yes, sir, this is required. No brains allowed in the movie theater. Ha ha, sir, yes, no brains in the the industry either."
Obviously, this is covered by existing laws. C'mon.
More importantly, though, is the pre-released clause: The threat of a three-year prison term kicks in when anyone makes an illicit copy of a movie "available on a computer network accessible to members of the public," when the film "was intended for commercial distribution but had not been so distributed at the time." Once the film is commercially distributed, the felony penalties appear to no longer apply.
Um, WHERE do pre-released copies come from? It's not Joe VCR in the theater with a videocam, it's insiders.
MPAA- Do your own damned dirty work. If you can't manage your own employees and multi-million-dollar reels, don't drag the US court system into it.
I for one welcome our subpoena overlords. No, actually, not, revolution!
Can someone who is not IANAL comment on ways this could be forced into court, and ended (or at least revealed for the sham it is as I'm sure SCO will appeal)? I want to get back to my normal flying-cars and distro-wars/., not SCO-news-of-the-day.
Basically, if you think about it, we have everything we need for one good OS company. MS handles business/marketing, Mac handles user interface and user loyalty, and Linux peoples actually make the OS...
(*BSD people and BeOS types can go on doing their thing;)
We all pitch in $10,000USD and get a second commercial in the next superbowl, which features the Moz development team singing an off tune inspirational song!
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True -- and if the kid did, even jokingly, mention that his applying soft to the end of his name to make it sound like MS, he'll have to deal with that.
Eh, 10 was too little, 10k was unreasonable, I'll be interest in what happens in the end.
The kid should get creative and buy some different URLs after (likely) losing this one. MikeRoweWave, MikeRoweScope, etc.
Crap. Your post reminded me I could probably press the Especially Secret Crack key ("Esc") on my kayboard and avoid these ads. I wonder if that means that the Esc key will be illegal, like the Shift key is now. That's two keys down, 99 (or so) to go!
They'll pry "Scroll Lock" from my cold, dead hands!!!
True, MS has an inherent requirement to defend its mark, but remember also that Mike Rowe has inheent rights on his own name. It will be on M$ to prove that he is intentionally abusing his legal name to profit off of M$. their little tactic would have worked -- when it was original 5 years ago, but has been done so often that it loses potency and shrivels as a defence (is micro, and soft?)
A similar thing happened in Jamaica, when McD's moved in and found that a local restaurant(owned by a fellow called McDonald) was already in business. McD's sued -- and lost. It helped that their menus didn't overlap very much... but McD's was unable to open a store in Kingston until the suit was completed, which was amusing.
The best part of the fool article is the closing byline, when the author displays his true fear about SCO's likelihood to have any success:
"Seth Jayson is currently struggling through a new Linux install on a computer he built from an old wood crate. SCO may serve his papers at FoolishSeth@sethj.com."
I think he has something to hide re: the whole pirating thing. The article mentions that his lot is right beside the "landmark El 7 Mares fish-taco stand on Sunset Boulevard."
key words: landmark, "7 Mares" (7 seas), "fish-taco"
He's OBVIOUSLY a pirate, people! I mean, he works next to fish-tacos.
486s, yeah, those are painful. We received some as a donation and found very little use for them, even in a development situation (of course, they had 160MB HDDs, no memory, very little capability to expand with, no working NICs or PCI slots). That being said, if you are willing to slap a nice Linux on top of the machines, add some educational software (Tux4Kids is a good place to start), it can be a valuable donation, if it has decent hardware (i.e. not like the ones I described).
You might consider international donation, check out the PeaceCorps.gov website to see if anyone's posted a request for computers, donate them to a GoodWill, etc.
how embarrassing it is to accidentally grep for the wrong pattern on a first date...
Then she goes "AWK!", and I'm like, "What, I SED something?" Then she goes all network-talk on me, talking about fingering, and ports. Man, it's stressful.
s/p/l/
Cybercafes, coffee houses with Internet/wireless fun, etc. If they get antsy about you sitting there all day sucking their bandwidth, but not much coffee, down, offer to set up a web page for them in exchange of continuing to sit there (or move to a more laid-back coffee house...)
Lots of interaction with a surprisingly regular set of people who work there at that shift and/or come in for their coffee/newspaper/pastry/snack/etc.
Try to support a local business, instead of a starbucks, with this, tho.
How is this not an international please-spam-me,-here's-my-favorite-and-most-privat e-email-address list? Even if it prevents US companies from spamming you, it's like a golden list for most spammers in the world.
And even if they MD5 each address or something not-totally-braindead, it turns into a us spammer hash-checking, finding it on the do-not-spam list, and selling it to a foreign counterpart as a quality address.
I checked my spam preferences upon receiving this in Y! and found no changes to them. Perhaps it is not switched over, but let's not bitch and moan too much. They're better than hotmail (not saying much), and they do give a lot for free.
Hell, use a Y!-provided filter to filter Y!, good for the problem, and supports irony in the universe.
ah, cuecats. I believe this wired writer wrote on those, as well:
"The CueCat is a cheapo bar-code scanner that looks like a marital aid."
--Leander Kahney, Wired
Hm. From devices that look like marital aids to plugging into to strangers' holes...
no, it'll be up down up down left right left right A B A B Select Star.... wait, no, that's the secret +5 karma bonus code.
... well, the modern day equivalent of the quadruple bucky.
I agree that gestures are often over the top, a few of them are nice, forward and back and reload are handy, but the longer ones are
It would be a fun way to hide cookies in web pages...
But when there are well-established browser-side projects to manage this, integrated, across any website, with user-customization (or non-use), the point is what, again, exactly?
Reading this is taking too much time away from my own project to code the "Stop Loading this page" feature in javascript. (j/k)
In KDE 3.2 you can control the entire desktop with mouse-gestures, not just browser.
In Mother Russia, the mouse gestures control YOU.
(Sorry)
Let's give Novell a good hip-hip-hooray, as they're the unsung hero in this fray. IBM among others are giving great support, but Novell is consistently issuing strong anti-sco press releases. Check out their press room. My fave quote so far:
5 /p r03033.html
"To Novell's knowledge, the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of UNIX from Novell does not convey to SCO the associated copyrights," Messman said in the letter. "We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those copyrights. Apparently you share this view, since over the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected."
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/0
(This is from way back in May, FYI)
The problem with a governmental intervention is scope. OK, great, so no spammers are sending through US relays. Fan-frickin-tastic. Most don't anyway...
Are we going to levy a tariff on all emails in from abroad? How, exactly?
The solution to spam won't be legal. not to say laws against spam aren't good, as if someone's stupid enough to spam from and to the wrong state, they can be fined. However, *laws will not cure spam*, because there will always be a country that doesn't pass an anti-spam law...
Dude. It's an Internet service. It'd be pretty bizarre if it didn't have an Aethernet connection.
Really, though, I care more about access from Hell...
No but seriously, is this DOT COM ERA part 2?
Shhhh! Let them get their VC. Don't be jealous!
I mean, it sorta kinda records. Playback is increasingly fuzzy with time (with the odd exception of tag lines from SNL near office water coolers, or Monty Python quotes in environments lacking in females)
"sorry, sir, but after we search your backpack, please step into the operations theater for a quick lobotomy. Yes, sir, this is required. No brains allowed in the movie theater. Ha ha, sir, yes, no brains in the the industry either."
Well, two points you bring up
Obviously, this is covered by existing laws. C'mon.
More importantly, though, is the pre-released clause:
The threat of a three-year prison term kicks in when anyone makes an illicit copy of a movie "available on a computer network accessible to members of the public," when the film "was intended for commercial distribution but had not been so distributed at the time." Once the film is commercially distributed, the felony penalties appear to no longer apply.
Um, WHERE do pre-released copies come from? It's not Joe VCR in the theater with a videocam, it's insiders.
MPAA- Do your own damned dirty work. If you can't manage your own employees and multi-million-dollar reels, don't drag the US court system into it.
I for one welcome our subpoena overlords. No, actually, not, revolution!
/., not SCO-news-of-the-day.
Can someone who is not IANAL comment on ways this could be forced into court, and ended (or at least revealed for the sham it is as I'm sure SCO will appeal)? I want to get back to my normal flying-cars and distro-wars
Basically, if you think about it, we have everything we need for one good OS company. MS handles business/marketing, Mac handles user interface and user loyalty, and Linux peoples actually make the OS...
;)
(*BSD people and BeOS types can go on doing their thing
THAT'S IT!
We all pitch in $10,000USD and get a second commercial in the next superbowl, which features the Moz development team singing an off tune inspirational song!
Hey! Mods -- untroll this comment. He had to know what I meant to be able to reply, so pot, meet kettle and all that jazz.
fi ends an "if" in shell-speak. I guess this actually has some philosophical implications even so...