Reminds me of the legaleize that scrolls rapidly by on some tv ads.
No one can be expected to read that at normal broadcast speed. Just for yuks, I've tried playing one of them back on TiVo to see if they are readable. Nope. The text is too tiny and blurred to read _at all_.
So, what is the point? Some lawyer decided that the "terms and conditions" needed to be included on the ad.
"But no one will ever be able to read that!" "Well, it really doesn't matter -- this is just in case some loony takes us to court. We can still say that the T&C were provided on the ad. The lawyer says we need it, so it stays."
Or, my other favorite is on cereal commercials where they are running some sweepstakes: "many will enter, few will win"
The hell is that? At one point I seemed to recall is was more like "thousands will enter, about a hundred will win". Seems like at least you got some inkling of the odds of winning. Now it sounds more like they are just covering their obligation to provide some token statement of odds.
Politician: Gentlemen, our MP saw the PM this AM and the PM wants more LSD from the PIB by tomorrow AM or PM at the latest. I told the PM's PPS that AM was NBG so tomorrow PM it is for the PM it is zero. Give us a fag or I'll go spare. Now- the fiscal deficit with regard to the monetary balance, the current financial year excluding invisible exports, but adjusted of course for seasonal variations and the incremental statistics of the fiscal and revenue arrangements for the forthcoming annual budgetary period terminating in April.
First Official: I think he's talking about taxation.
Politician: Bravo, Madge. Well done. Taxation is indeed the very hub of my gist. Gentlemen, we have to find something new to tax.
Second Official: I understood that.
Third Official: If I might put my head on the chopping block so you can kick it around a bit, sir...
Politician: Yes?
Third Official: Well most things we do for pleasure nowadays are taxed, except one.
Politician: What do you mean?
Third Official: Well, er, smoking's been taxed, drinking's been taxed but not... thingy.
Politician: Good Lord, you're not suggesting we should tax... thingy?
First Official: Poo poo's?
Third Official: No.
First Official: Thank God for that. Excuse me for a moment. (leaves)
Third Official: No, no, no - thingy.
Second Official: Number ones?
Third Official: No, thingy.
Politician: Thingy!
Second Official: Ah, thingy. Well it'll certainly make chartered accountancy a much more interesting job.
It's not a "new" domain. windowsupdate.com always just re-directed to windowsupdate.microsoft.com -- they just removed the DNS for this convenience address (probably temporarily at that).
True, the next worm will probably just point to the real url (not sure why this one didn't?)
I think that's what everyone is hoping. If IBM is really serious about long-term Linux strategy (and they sure look like it), they could really boost confidence of businesses by identifying any such patents and granting a perpetual royalty-free license to (who? FSF, Linus?)
>i can't remember what the GPL patent policy is and i'm not in the mood to re-read the legalize right now
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
So, yeah, IBM could kill Linux if it wanted to brush off some patent and take RedHat or someone to court. They way I read this (IANAL, duh), if IBM got a court order saying that Linux infringes some of its patents, people would have to stop distributing programs that cannot be used royalty-free, right?
IBM last year took in more than $1 billion in Linux-related revenue. In its 2002 annual report IBM claims it has 7,500 employees involved in developing, selling or supporting Linux, and that more than 15% of the mainframe capacity it shipped last year was for Linux workloads.
IBM is pulling in some major cash from its Linux business (after having made an equally major investment, it seems). What motivation would they have to piss in their own cornflakes?
Yeah, but IBM isn't using its patents against SCO's Linux distro?
The infringing SCO software, IBM said, is its UnixWare and OpenServer operating systems, its SCO Manager remote administration tool and its Reliant HA package for letting one computer in a cluster take over if another fails.
Hey, you stole my marbles!!
Well, they technically aren't *your* marbles anymore because you've been giving them away to other kids. You stop telling everyone I stole your marbles, it's making me look bad. Oh, and that slingshot in your back pocket... mine.
Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
You know, I've never seen an ad for Bob (outside of blurbs on Nick itself).
I have a 4-year old daughter. I TiVo Bob and a couple other shows for her and then *gasp* actually spend time with her engaging her interests like watching Dora the explorer and Bob the builder (and yes, plenty of non-tv activities like board games, reading, etc).
Nick Jr is actually one of the few worthwhile couple of hours of tv around for pre-schoolers.
Now, if you want to complain about "marketing the crap" out of things, I could mention Power Puff Girls or SpongeBob or the like.
But it was not SuSe, but univention_ GmbH that went to court to get SCO to STFU.
a German court in Bremen granted an injunction to Univention GmbH, a German Linux integrator, against SCO Group GmbH, SCO's German division. The injunction prevents SCO from saying that Linux contains illegally obtained SCO intellectual property, aka Unix source code. If SCO continues to hold this position, they would have to pay a fine of 250,000 Euros.
If there was a similar action by SuSe, I couldn't find it.
except, look at where it is relative to a few months ago
Yeah, it's down a bit today, but the 52-week low is $0.78 -- sorry to say, but this hustle seems to be working in their favor for the time being. It's going to take IBM coming down hard to put all this to an end, I'm afraid. I'm just not sure what they're waiting for.
Well, they managed to push out a independent coffee store here where I live (Chicago burb).
There was a cool little shop that had great coffee, great service and a nice little lounge. Starbucks came in and set up a location in Dominicks at the other end of the little shopping center. Within a month, the other shop was gone.
Was it because people preferred the starbucks coffee and the other shop lost customers? no The shop had just as much business as before.
Word is that Starbucks pressured the property management office to not renew the coffee shop's lease as part of the deal to set up shop next to Dominicks.
I put a little bit of butter and salt along with the beer + onions.
Some people say to poke the brat with a fork prior to boiling, but I never do. I also find that a pale brew like rolling rock imparts a lighter, sweeter flavor.
Experimentation to find what suits your taste best is highly encouraged.
I've heard of theft of services, usually used in the context of illegal cable hookups or the like -- I didn't know it could apply to something like watching a movie without paying.
If you sneak into a movie theater and watch a movie without paying, have you committed theft? Piracy? No? (mebbe the theater can call the cops on you for trespassing?)
Clearly you have done something wrong. You have gotten something without paying the asked price. Do they charge too much? Are they ripping off the Actors by controlling distribution of their work? Maybe.
Does that give you the moral/legal right to not pay?
I don't think so. Downloading music instead of buying the CD seems about the same. You aren't stealing. You aren't even a pirate. You are consuming a commercial good/service without paying the asked price. (disclaimer: I have downloaded music without paying)
Occurs to me that this is more like peeking through the fence at the circus. You aren't going in and enjoying the show without paying, you aren't taking anything away from the circus owner since you probably wouldn't have paid anyway. You aren't even trespassing because you are on public property. But you are doing something wrong. You are getting something for free that the circus owner has spent money to put together to make a living from. He has a right to chase you away from the holes in the fence.
Yah, and CNN was doing their best to help out this morning.
They interviewed a guy this morning. (Can't find it on cnn.com, though)
He says he is being investigated for the 300 files on his PC that he downloaded a year ago. He says his grandson used his machine a few weeks ago to download a couple songs and he thinks that is why the RIAA is getting ready to send him a subpoena.
This guy didn't have a lawyer and was worried about how much it was going to cost him to defend himself. He said he thought they were just making an example of him to scare others.
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Reminds me of the legaleize that scrolls rapidly by on some tv ads.
No one can be expected to read that at normal broadcast speed. Just for yuks, I've tried playing one of them back on TiVo to see if they are readable. Nope. The text is too tiny and blurred to read _at all_.
So, what is the point? Some lawyer decided that the "terms and conditions" needed to be included on the ad.
"But no one will ever be able to read that!"
"Well, it really doesn't matter -- this is just in case some loony takes us to court. We can still say that the T&C were provided on the ad. The lawyer says we need it, so it stays."
Or, my other favorite is on cereal commercials where they are running some sweepstakes: "many will enter, few will win"
The hell is that? At one point I seemed to recall is was more like "thousands will enter, about a hundred will win". Seems like at least you got some inkling of the odds of winning. Now it sounds more like they are just covering their obligation to provide some token statement of odds.
tax on "thingy":
... thingy.
Politician: Gentlemen, our MP saw the PM this AM and the PM wants more LSD from the PIB by tomorrow AM or PM at the latest. I told the PM's PPS that AM was NBG so tomorrow PM it is for the PM it is zero. Give us a fag or I'll go spare. Now- the fiscal deficit with regard to the monetary balance, the current financial year excluding invisible exports, but adjusted of course for seasonal variations and the incremental statistics of the fiscal and revenue arrangements for the forthcoming annual budgetary period terminating in April.
First Official: I think he's talking about taxation.
Politician: Bravo, Madge. Well done. Taxation is indeed the very hub of my gist. Gentlemen, we have to find something new to tax.
Second Official: I understood that.
Third Official: If I might put my head on the chopping block so you can kick it around a bit, sir...
Politician: Yes?
Third Official: Well most things we do for pleasure nowadays are taxed, except one.
Politician: What do you mean?
Third Official: Well, er, smoking's been taxed, drinking's been taxed but not
Politician: Good Lord, you're not suggesting we should tax... thingy?
First Official: Poo poo's?
Third Official: No.
First Official: Thank God for that. Excuse me for a moment. (leaves)
Third Official: No, no, no - thingy.
Second Official: Number ones?
Third Official: No, thingy.
Politician: Thingy!
Second Official: Ah, thingy. Well it'll certainly make chartered accountancy a much more interesting job.
it looks like the whole world is coming against SCO
Ya think, Darl? No, IBM is able to bend the will of the "whole world" and you are justifiedly indignant.
This guy is starting to exhibit symtoms of paranoid delusions, no?
My theory, about the universe, which is mine, which is to say...
It's not a "new" domain. windowsupdate.com always just re-directed to windowsupdate.microsoft.com -- they just removed the DNS for this convenience address (probably temporarily at that).
True, the next worm will probably just point to the real url (not sure why this one didn't?)
The button on the taskbar is targeted to
a sp
%SystemRoot%\system32\wupdmgr.exe
which sends me to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.
which appears to work just file. Didn't try it from IE tools menu, tho
They don't have as good prices and selection as this place.
Plus, their staff is really knowledgeable and ready to help you plan everything you need for your next brutal overthrow attempt.
why are you wearing that stupid rabbit suit?
What about the 6-foot human-rabbit hybrids that whisper to us that the world is coming to an end?
(yeah, I know -- but it was the first thing I thought of)
I think that's what everyone is hoping. If IBM is really serious about long-term Linux strategy (and they sure look like it), they could really boost confidence of businesses by identifying any such patents and granting a perpetual royalty-free license to (who? FSF, Linus?)
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
So, yeah, IBM could kill Linux if it wanted to brush off some patent and take RedHat or someone to court. They way I read this (IANAL, duh), if IBM got a court order saying that Linux infringes some of its patents, people would have to stop distributing programs that cannot be used royalty-free, right?
Seems unlikely they they would do that.
According to forbes:
IBM last year took in more than $1 billion in Linux-related revenue. In its 2002 annual report IBM claims it has 7,500 employees involved in developing, selling or supporting Linux, and that more than 15% of the mainframe capacity it shipped last year was for Linux workloads.
IBM is pulling in some major cash from its Linux business (after having made an equally major investment, it seems). What motivation would they have to piss in their own cornflakes?
The infringing SCO software, IBM said, is its UnixWare and OpenServer operating systems, its SCO Manager remote administration tool and its Reliant HA package for letting one computer in a cluster take over if another fails.
Hey, you stole my marbles!!
Well, they technically aren't *your* marbles anymore because you've been giving them away to other kids. You stop telling everyone I stole your marbles, it's making me look bad. Oh, and that slingshot in your back pocket... mine.
Treason , then?
treason ( P ) Pronunciation Key (trzn)
n.
You know, I've never seen an ad for Bob (outside of blurbs on Nick itself).
I have a 4-year old daughter. I TiVo Bob and a couple other shows for her and then *gasp* actually spend time with her engaging her interests like watching Dora the explorer and Bob the builder (and yes, plenty of non-tv activities like board games, reading, etc).
Nick Jr is actually one of the few worthwhile couple of hours of tv around for pre-schoolers.
Now, if you want to complain about "marketing the crap" out of things, I could mention Power Puff Girls or SpongeBob or the like.
> When SUSE did this in Germany SCO backed down.
/. came up with zero.
I thought I remembered it this way also, but searching for the story on
I did find the story about a German court granting an injunction against sco:
SCO Stands Defiant, German Court Grants Preliminary Injunction
But it was not SuSe, but univention_ GmbH that went to court to get SCO to STFU.
a German court in Bremen granted an injunction to Univention GmbH, a German Linux integrator, against SCO Group GmbH, SCO's German division. The injunction prevents SCO from saying that Linux contains illegally obtained SCO intellectual property, aka Unix source code. If SCO continues to hold this position, they would have to pay a fine of 250,000 Euros.
If there was a similar action by SuSe, I couldn't find it.
except, look at where it is relative to a few months ago
Yeah, it's down a bit today, but the 52-week low is $0.78 -- sorry to say, but this hustle seems to be working in their favor for the time being. It's going to take IBM coming down hard to put all this to an end, I'm afraid. I'm just not sure what they're waiting for.
Well, they managed to push out a independent coffee store here where I live (Chicago burb).
There was a cool little shop that had great coffee, great service and a nice little lounge. Starbucks came in and set up a location in Dominicks at the other end of the little shopping center. Within a month, the other shop was gone.
Was it because people preferred the starbucks coffee and the other shop lost customers? no The shop had just as much business as before.
Word is that Starbucks pressured the property management office to not renew the coffee shop's lease as part of the deal to set up shop next to Dominicks.
Men in Black
"see this? this is going to replace compact-disc soon. looks like I'll have to buy the white album again."
I put a little bit of butter and salt along with the beer + onions.
Some people say to poke the brat with a fork prior to boiling, but I never do. I also find that a pale brew like rolling rock imparts a lighter, sweeter flavor.
Experimentation to find what suits your taste best is highly encouraged.
You're right. What he typically does then is slip the cop on the beat $20 to "keep the rif-raf away".
good point - thanks for the link
I've heard of theft of services, usually used in the context of illegal cable hookups or the like -- I didn't know it could apply to something like watching a movie without paying.
If you sneak into a movie theater and watch a movie without paying, have you committed theft? Piracy? No? (mebbe the theater can call the cops on you for trespassing?)
Clearly you have done something wrong. You have gotten something without paying the asked price. Do they charge too much? Are they ripping off the Actors by controlling distribution of their work? Maybe.
Does that give you the moral/legal right to not pay?
I don't think so. Downloading music instead of buying the CD seems about the same. You aren't stealing. You aren't even a pirate. You are consuming a commercial good/service without paying the asked price. (disclaimer: I have downloaded music without paying)
Occurs to me that this is more like peeking through the fence at the circus. You aren't going in and enjoying the show without paying, you aren't taking anything away from the circus owner since you probably wouldn't have paid anyway. You aren't even trespassing because you are on public property. But you are doing something wrong. You are getting something for free that the circus owner has spent money to put together to make a living from. He has a right to chase you away from the holes in the fence.
Yah, and CNN was doing their best to help out this morning.
They interviewed a guy this morning. (Can't find it on cnn.com, though)
He says he is being investigated for the 300 files on his PC that he downloaded a year ago. He says his grandson used his machine a few weeks ago to download a couple songs and he thinks that is why the RIAA is getting ready to send him a subpoena.
This guy didn't have a lawyer and was worried about how much it was going to cost him to defend himself. He said he thought they were just making an example of him to scare others.
you mean Dave Coulier
Wasn't the supposedly the one Alanis was singing about in You Oughta Know?
except the article didn't even say that
"Wireless Net at PGE Park creates sparks "
but I agree, peppering sports section stories with tired puns and cliche is a tried and true newspaper editor tactic.
This time though it is the story submitter
Portland's community wireless networking group, Personal Telco Project (PTP), recently knocked one into the ball park with a new WiFi node...
To find out more about the impact of the PTPs latest home run check out this article in the Oregonian and over at the PTP's website."
Maybe he thought he was submitting something to espn.com