To whom has he sold this stock?
Is this a step towards some other interest group having a share of microsoft in exchange for a friendlier marketshare in some instances of power, foo example?
Slashdot... has it gone the corporate way?
on
Tripwire Going GPL
·
· Score: 1
Funny thing is that I reported this to Slashdot back when it was annouced (June 26th). Why was it that my post never made it through the garbage disposal unit we prefer to call Slashdot Editors?
This is a letter I sent to info@peta-online.org, terminating my relationship with such an organization. I urge you to do the same if you also think that our basic constitutional rights should be considered by such self-righteous organizations.
Hello,
I would like to start this letter by stating that will no longer donate to any PETA connected funds. It is a sad and hard decision to make, but the PETA's official conduct has forced it on me. Having been an active contributor of both time and money to a cause I still consider valid, I cannot endorse an organization that blatantly ignores basic constitutional rights.
The events that led to my decision are those related to the PETA.ORG affair. Since you made the unfortunate decision of going the.COM way (not the most appropriate, when Internet RFC's clearly advise that an organization such as yours should go with a.ORG domain), and relinquished the opportunity to register any other top level domains, you clearly stated that they were open for third parties to take. When PETA.ORG was taken, and filled with satirical information, it was done in a manner NOT easily confused with your own site PETA.COM. PETA.ORG's content in particular was not supposed to be taken as factual, or insulting as such, but comedic, and light hearted, since most intelligent human beings can distinguish both types of presentation. Apparently your staff cannot. And with the exhibited behavior have shown that they don't even care about our own constitutional rights. Perhaps the PETA's line of though is that it is above the Nation's clearly stated rights, or that it can play on the obvious ignorance of a few magistrates to twist the law as they see fit.
All this is, as I've said, reason enough for me to terminate any relation I may have or might have had with the PETA, as of today I list your organization in the black book of those that try to diminish our personal freedom, and feel ashamed of any relation between myself and your organization.
With no further subject, may your supporters see the error of their ways, as I have.
Ok I'll admit to having, on ocasion, halted for a moment to *remember* how to write, before I can actually start doing it... but that's a LONG way from paralysis... I think this article is total and utter alarmist B.S., because if it were a mere bad choice of words they wouldn't stress the PARALYSIS mumbo-jumbo.
So it is my opinion that this article has no credibility, both medical or scientifical, other than it could be the basis for a study, and not mere Supposition and Conjecture as it is in its present form.
To those of you who see my point, I thank you for your understanding. To those who don't, don't bother to flame, and please try to think with your own heads.
P.S.: If the problem with PDAs was related to their alphabet, what in blazes would happen to those of us who happen to write arabic, cantonese, cyrillic and western alphabets... boy would we be stumped.
I too would like a perfect information, knowledge sharing society. But from experience I have found that people tend to entrech themselves to protect the "intelectual investment" of being themselves, especially so in the corporate world.
But this is getting out of control. These people aren't just ignorants; they're ignorants with power. Think of the world's rulers as two-year-olds playing with handguns, they haven't got a clue... even if they do, they seem to suffer from Stupidity Syndrome (SS)... Yeah that's it... They're just stupid... How did we let them get to their positions? This is just another of those stances... one of these people hears stuff about how "techies" (BTW they have no clue as to what that means) are going on with their "anti-copyright schemes" and how Big-Business is suffering from it (I have to pause now and REALLY laugh my head into oblivion......... OK.) So they decide to do something about it just to please some corporation or another in order to perhaps get a little boost in their next campaign (the monetary and influential kind). So here comes the strange definition of what the evil "techies" are doing... they don't quite understand... it sound a lot like Xeroxing stuff... copies... cache...hummm. Then they figure that it sound vaguely like copying stuff on the internet, and then one of them realizes that the local SysAdmin once told him that to improve efficiency they had a proxy server (cache, or whatever you choose to call it) which did just that, *COPY*, "so that must be what people are going on about", they think... and BOOM there comes a STUPID law for which STUPID people voted, people who see themselves so much as the bearers of truth that they forget to even interview someone who actually knows the "techie" community, just to see if their initial assumptions were correct.
To sum it up these people are STUPID, they should realize that in order to do their jobs correctly they have to know what they're going on about! I mean if we (I too am a SysAdmin) screwed up as many times as these *SSHOLES we would've been fired a long time ago!
I don't think computer skills are a subject on this one... Common sense should be (have been) enough. I mean, this kind of text apllies to (if you haven't noticed) such basic activities as mailing lists... So WTF just happenned? Did Microsoft all of a sudden invent the Mail Distibution System? I say fry all patents on intangible or otherwise too wide-reaching definitions/techniques!
It invites to the unauthorized practice of Accounting!!! Ooooohhoooooo, Big deal! These people have too much time on their hands... they should, probably, take on some hobbies.
It's as simple as keeping in mind that the Internet isn't an actual location, it's a network... this kind of problem started with the Internet taxing BS. You can't tax stuff that has no geological borders ('cause you can't tax someone else's country's products, and you never know where the heck the stuff comes from - generally that is). Then the CORPORATE WORLD started up with this crap of "that's my name". Please don't think I don't support e-commerce or the like, 'cause I do, even if it's about buying and selling Domain Names, the thing I can't stand is this prepotent bigotry of "that is my *whatever*!", there is no claim to approximate names because of the several cultures and languages present. For example, let's assume there's a domain called "tempestaid" as in relief from storm damage (hence tempest aid), and there's also a domain called "tempestade", they both sound very close, but can they not belong to separate institutions? Because, you see, "tempestade" means "storm" in Spanish, not English. My point is: closely related names must be allowed, for cultural purposes if nothing else, even if the companies have the same economic activity, because you can never be sure your name doesn't mean something else in some foreign language (I know it's going out on a limb but we must release ourselves from local dogmas to fully understand a global phenomenon). If the company has a problem with the website's content (copyright infringement for example) they can pursue it, even if it's not hard to escape in that case to, say, Burkina Faso, (that's a country BTW) where copyright is very low in the system's legal priorities. But when there is no subject, other than copyright or intellectual property, I can't fathom a reason to prosecute someone for putting whatever they want on a website, remember that the Internet is not plausible it's *intelectual*, conceptual, VIRTUAL, extra-political, extra-national, extra-legal, you can't, by any definition of *national* legal system, rule an *international* medium. BTW my point is THE INTERNET IS FREE! Why has everybody forgotten that once the people ruled this thing, not court rooms, not governments (since the ARPAnet went "public"), and most certainly NOT CORPORATIONS! Freedom of speech is precious, we must create a conscience that like Open Source, Freedom of Speech is something worth fighting for (in whichever form you're comfortable with).
Slashdot Mirror
To whom has he sold this stock?
Is this a step towards some other interest group having a share of microsoft in exchange for a friendlier marketshare in some instances of power, foo example?
Funny thing is that I reported this to Slashdot back when it was annouced (June 26th).
Why was it that my post never made it through the garbage disposal unit we prefer to call Slashdot Editors?
This is a letter I sent to info@peta-online.org, terminating my relationship with such an organization.
.COM way (not the most appropriate, when Internet RFC's clearly advise that an organization such as yours should go with a .ORG domain), and relinquished the opportunity to register any other top level domains, you clearly stated that they were open for third parties to take. When PETA.ORG was taken, and filled with satirical information, it was done in a manner NOT easily confused with your own site PETA.COM. PETA.ORG's content in particular was not supposed to be taken as factual, or insulting as such, but comedic, and light hearted, since most intelligent human beings can distinguish both types of presentation. Apparently your staff cannot. And with the exhibited behavior have shown that they don't even care about our own constitutional rights. Perhaps the PETA's line of though is that it is above the Nation's clearly stated rights, or that it can play on the obvious ignorance of a few magistrates to twist the law as they see fit.
I urge you to do the same if you also think that our basic constitutional rights should be considered by such self-righteous organizations.
Hello,
I would like to start this letter by stating that will no longer donate to any PETA connected funds. It is a sad and hard decision to make, but the PETA's official conduct has forced it on me. Having been an active contributor of both time and money to a cause I still consider valid, I cannot endorse an organization that blatantly ignores basic constitutional rights.
The events that led to my decision are those related to the PETA.ORG affair. Since you made the unfortunate decision of going the
All this is, as I've said, reason enough for me to terminate any relation I may have or might have had with the PETA, as of today I list your organization in the black book of those that try to diminish our personal freedom, and feel ashamed of any relation between myself and your organization.
With no further subject, may your supporters see the error of their ways, as I have.
My sentiments exactly... for the greater part the jokes are about tech support "community" itself and its way of life...
It's just too bad that once every x+4 months someone comes along and starts babling incoherently about something
they obviously know little about...
Or is it that every x+4 months someone needs to boost their hit count and publishes utter crap just to get noticed?
Season's Greeting to everyone.
> At least Rob hasn't changed the SGI topic icon yet.
I wonder... does Rob know something we don't?
Step 1. Full Linux Support.
Step 2. Bring the "Cube" Logo back! (Please, pleeeaaase, pretty please).
Yeah... Pictures would be nice!!! Do you ever wonder why the Internet has such a bad reputation...
Ok I'll admit to having, on ocasion, halted for a moment to *remember* how to write, before I can actually start doing it... but that's a LONG way from paralysis... I think this article is total and utter alarmist B.S., because if it were a mere bad choice of words they wouldn't stress the PARALYSIS mumbo-jumbo.
So it is my opinion that this article has no credibility, both medical or scientifical, other than it could be the basis for a study, and not mere Supposition and Conjecture as it is in its present form.
To those of you who see my point, I thank you for your understanding. To those who don't, don't bother to flame, and please try to think with your own heads.
P.S.: If the problem with PDAs was related to their alphabet, what in blazes would happen to those of us who happen to write arabic, cantonese, cyrillic and western alphabets... boy would we be stumped.
I too would like a perfect information, knowledge sharing society. But from experience I have found that people tend to entrech themselves to protect the "intelectual investment" of being themselves, especially so in the corporate world.
This probably means that I'll be able to finally pay what the Voodoo2 are worth, not some marked-up price.
But this is getting out of control. These people aren't just ignorants; they're ignorants with power. Think of the world's rulers as two-year-olds playing with handguns, they haven't got a clue... even if they do, they seem to suffer from Stupidity Syndrome (SS)... Yeah that's it... They're just stupid... How did we let them get to their positions? This is just another of those stances... one of these people hears stuff about how "techies" (BTW they have no clue as to what that means) are going on with their "anti-copyright schemes" and how Big-Business is suffering from it (I have to pause now and REALLY laugh my head into oblivion... ... ... OK.) So they decide to do something about it just to please some corporation or another in order to perhaps get a little boost in their next campaign (the monetary and influential kind). So here comes the strange definition of what the evil "techies" are doing... they don't quite understand... it sound a lot like Xeroxing stuff... copies... cache...hummm. Then they figure that it sound vaguely like copying stuff on the internet, and then one of them realizes that the local SysAdmin once told him that to improve efficiency they had a proxy server (cache, or whatever you choose to call it) which did just that, *COPY*, "so that must be what people are going on about", they think... and BOOM there comes a STUPID law for which STUPID people voted, people who see themselves so much as the bearers of truth that they forget to even interview someone who actually knows the "techie" community, just to see if their initial assumptions were correct.
To sum it up these people are STUPID, they should realize that in order to do their jobs correctly they have to know what they're going on about! I mean if we (I too am a SysAdmin) screwed up as many times as these *SSHOLES we would've been fired a long time ago!
See you in the future!
I don't think computer skills are a subject on this one... Common sense should be (have been) enough. I mean, this kind of text apllies to (if you haven't noticed) such basic activities as mailing lists... So WTF just happenned? Did Microsoft all of a sudden invent the Mail Distibution System? I say fry all patents on intangible or otherwise too wide-reaching definitions/techniques!
It invites to the unauthorized practice of Accounting!!! Ooooohhoooooo, Big deal! These people have too much time on their hands... they should, probably, take on some hobbies.
Then again probably more so.