Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 04:15:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patrick Bateman"
Subject: Re: Your Message
To: pireding@hormel.com
Dear Ms. Reding,
I would like to call your attention to an unauthorized
use of Hormel's trademark on the Internet.
As you are no doubt aware, the term "Spam" is used to
describe Unsolicited Commercial Email. The
technology-oriented website "Slashdot"
(http://www.slashdot.org) posts tech-related news to
its front page, and allows the public to post comments
to these news items. These postings are organized by
section, and "Spam" is one of these sections.
Slashdot's Spam section may be viewed here:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=spam
As you can see, in the upper right-hand corner of the
page is Slashdot's "Spam" icon, which is actually a
picture of a container of Hormel's SPAM Luncheon Meat.
The image may be viewed directly here:
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicspam.jpg
It is obvious that Slashdot is associating Unsolicited
Commercial Email with Hormel's SPAM Luncheon Meat. I
would not normally be concerned by this, but
Slashdot's policy of allowing any member of the public
to anonymously post messages--regardless of
content--is the source of my outrage.
Some of the most vile and disgusting comments are
posted to Slashdot, and the people who run Slashdot
make no effort to delete or censor these comments. It
is possible to view--on the same Slashdot page--the
above image of Hormel's SPAM Luncheon Meat alongside a
profanity-laden post with a hyperlink to a website
advocating intimate relations between man and beast,
or any other perverse act one can imagine.
The result of this is the association of SPAM Luncheon
Meat with something much worse than mere "Spam" email.
I encourage you to contact the maintainers of
Slashdot to have this situation remedied. Slashdot is
a component website of the Open Source Developers'
Network (http://www.osdn.com). OSDN's parent company
is VA Linux (NASDAQ: LNUX, http://www.valinux.com), a
personal computer clone manufacturer.
I hope you have found the above information useful.
Sincerely,
Patrick Bateman
--- pireding@hormel.com wrote:
> Your message of 5/29/01 regarding an incident of
> copyright infringement of
> HORMEL intellectual property has been forwarded to
> me. You may forward
> your information directly to me. I thank you in
> advance for your
> assistance in this matter.
>
> Patricia I. Reding
> pireding@hormel.com
> Attorney
> Hormel Foods Law Department
>
>
>
>
******
> This email and any files transmitted with it are
> intended solely for the use of the individual or
> entity to whom they
> are addressed. If you have received this email in
> error please notify
> contentadmin@hormel.com
>
Certainly the perpetrators must be punished, but the US Gov't does so much to make enemies of the rest of the world, today's attacks should not be a surprise. The UN and the Western World decided to create an artificial state in Palestine, and billions of US dollars flow into an oppresive regime to suppress the native Palestinians.
Actually, I have a Perl script that executes whenever I login to my workstation. It checks Slashdot to see if there are any new stories posted within a certain timeframe, and if so it posts "Can you imagine...... a Beowulf cluster of these?" as a reply. This is an appropriate reply to most of the stories posted to Slashdot. I used to post as an AC, but the new default browse level is "+1", so I now use a Slashdot account.
Uh, they may be referring to the high cost of traveling to space, e.g. training of flight and ground crews, fuel, constructing the flight vehicle and equipment, life insurance, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you.
--Patrick Bateman, Esq.
I mean really! Hasn't there been another kernel released or something?
Thank you.
--Patrick Bateman, Esq.
... for the message-passing backbone of a Beowulf cluster.
Which are friendly to Beowulf clusters?
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 04:15:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Patrick Bateman"
Subject: Re: Your Message
To: pireding@hormel.com
Dear Ms. Reding,
I would like to call your attention to an unauthorized
use of Hormel's trademark on the Internet.
As you are no doubt aware, the term "Spam" is used to
describe Unsolicited Commercial Email. The
technology-oriented website "Slashdot"
(http://www.slashdot.org) posts tech-related news to
its front page, and allows the public to post comments
to these news items. These postings are organized by
section, and "Spam" is one of these sections.
Slashdot's Spam section may be viewed here:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=spam
As you can see, in the upper right-hand corner of the
page is Slashdot's "Spam" icon, which is actually a
picture of a container of Hormel's SPAM Luncheon Meat.
The image may be viewed directly here:
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicspam.jpg
It is obvious that Slashdot is associating Unsolicited
Commercial Email with Hormel's SPAM Luncheon Meat. I
would not normally be concerned by this, but
Slashdot's policy of allowing any member of the public
to anonymously post messages--regardless of
content--is the source of my outrage.
Some of the most vile and disgusting comments are
posted to Slashdot, and the people who run Slashdot
make no effort to delete or censor these comments. It
is possible to view--on the same Slashdot page--the
above image of Hormel's SPAM Luncheon Meat alongside a
profanity-laden post with a hyperlink to a website
advocating intimate relations between man and beast,
or any other perverse act one can imagine.
The result of this is the association of SPAM Luncheon
Meat with something much worse than mere "Spam" email.
I encourage you to contact the maintainers of
Slashdot to have this situation remedied. Slashdot is
a component website of the Open Source Developers'
Network (http://www.osdn.com). OSDN's parent company
is VA Linux (NASDAQ: LNUX, http://www.valinux.com), a
personal computer clone manufacturer.
I hope you have found the above information useful.
Sincerely,
Patrick Bateman
--- pireding@hormel.com wrote:
> Your message of 5/29/01 regarding an incident of
> copyright infringement of
> HORMEL intellectual property has been forwarded to
> me. You may forward
> your information directly to me. I thank you in
> advance for your
> assistance in this matter.
>
> Patricia I. Reding
> pireding@hormel.com
> Attorney
> Hormel Foods Law Department
>
>
>
>
******
> This email and any files transmitted with it are
> intended solely for the use of the individual or
> entity to whom they
> are addressed. If you have received this email in
> error please notify
> contentadmin@hormel.com
>
The poster was referring to 9/1/1, not 9/11/1.
... Novell will buy Caldera. They've got the cash, and it's not as though CS grads come out of school knowing how to program for NetWare.
One million dollars!
Thank you.
--Patrick Bateman, Esq.
Anyone who can't partition and format a hard drive using a common refrigerator magnet shouldn't call himself a sysadmin.
... a Beowulf cluster of these?
One might call it an archipelago.
... a Beowulf cluster of these?
Actually, I have a Perl script that executes whenever I login to my workstation. It checks Slashdot to see if there are any new stories posted within a certain timeframe, and if so it posts "Can you imagine... ... a Beowulf cluster of these?" as a reply. This is an appropriate reply to most of the stories posted to Slashdot. I used to post as an AC, but the new default browse level is "+1", so I now use a Slashdot account.
You should allow Jeeves to check your spelling. Try "Beowulf" next time.
Turing test?
... a Beowulf cluster of these?
'...when the Star Wars movie was at the height of it's popularity, the president went on national television and proposed "laser beams in space"...'
Wasn't Star Wars around 1976? So that would have been who, Ford? Carter?
Uh, they may be referring to the high cost of traveling to space, e.g. training of flight and ground crews, fuel, constructing the flight vehicle and equipment, life insurance, etc.