As much as we all hate to admit it the "all-you-can-eat" days of the buffet are almost over. Metered bandwidth is coming and thos who use the most will pay the most.
Leveraging their 90% marketshare of the desktop this will become yet another monopoly for Microsoft. I say we wait until this thing gets going full scale and then file a class-action suit against them. Once this takes off -- there will be no alternatives on the Windows platform. Millions of lemmings will run right off the cliff and just start using this service because it is built right into the OS.
I had another plan.... just set up SpamAssassin and then forward all your filtered spam directly to your Congressmen. And, just for good measure, you can CC president@whitehouse.gov too. If everyone in the USA did this there would be new anti-spam laws passed by next week.
If you include DRM -- you will sink like a lead balloon. The customers have spoken. Now, we just need to turn the heat up on Microsoft. Why wasn't their a backlash like this for Microsoft? People need to tell companies that they won't stand for this type of behavior. Let's hope that Microsoft is taking notes. Palladium is going to have the same problems as Intuit did.
REDMOND, Washington - March 10, 2003 - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), the proven owner of the patent for Most Hated Company of All Time, today announced that it has filed legal action against The SCO® Group (SCO) (NASDAQ: SCOX) in the State Court of Washington, for misappropriation of corporate image, torturous interference, unfair competition and breach of contract. The complaint alleges that SCO made concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the monetary value of Microsoft's image as Most Hated Company of All Time, particularly Most Hated Company of All Time in the Information Technology sector, to benefit SCO's licensing division.
Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera Systems, will become CEO of a new Caldera Inc, which became a shell company after Caldera won its antitrust case against Microsoft. SCO president David McCrabb will become president of Caldera Inc. Bryan Sparks will remain with Lineo, which has filed for IPO.
The deal is interesting because of the complex and somewhat incestuous relationship between Caldera, SCO, Microsoft, Citrix, and Novell. Microsoft acquired SCO shares as a result of getting SCO, founded in 1978 by Doug and Larry Michels, to produce a version of Unix called Xenix. Microsoft had licensed Unix from AT&T, and the product was first marketed in 1979. In 1987, Microsoft was concerned that AT&T's Unix applications might not run with Xenix. As a consequence, AT&T agreed to add some Xenix code to its Unix and to pay Microsoft a royalty for this.
Ray Noorda subsequently acquired Unix from AT&T for Novell, held it for two years, and then it was sold to SCO in 1995 - with Novell receiving a 13.8 per cent holding in SCO as part of the deal. The next year, SCO realised that the code added to Unix was no longer needed or relevant, so it asked Microsoft to agree to end the agreement. Microsoft refused, with the consequence that SCO complained to the European Commission competition directorate early in 1997. In FY 1998, SCO paid Microsoft more than $1.138 million in royalties. In January, Microsoft sold its entire 12.3 per cent holding in SCO, and the SCO share price began to collapse.
Every good/. story that I want to read is gone. The HERF gun... and now this. WTF!? When is/. going to start caching this stuff locally before linking to it? They should make this "from the you'll-never-see-this-site-anyway department."
GRRRRRRRRRRRR......
Fuck it.... I've got Karma to burn and this rant felt good.
Everytime I hit a page that wants to install foreign fonts (like Japanese)... Mozilla 1.4a pops up a dialog box. You click "Cancel" and it comes back. Keeps doing it until you close out the window.
Looks like he might be interested in some catalogs:
Registrant Contact:
mousehouse interactive
Duncan Shiels David Danowski (danks@europa.com)
503.289.2536
FAX: none
7709 N. Denver Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
US
www.defibworld.com uses bogus WHOIS info. I've filed a complaint with eNom, Inc. We just need to find his mailing address and we can "Ralsky" this guy too.
I just wrote to the legal dept. at eNom and demanded that they fix his bogus WHOIS information. Next step... file a complaint with ICANN. We should have his mailing address shortly.
Step 1: Report him. Step 2: Find out where he lives.
Re:I used to follow mozilla
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Definitely! I love tabbed browsing, and the popup and cookie features are far superior to IE. Mozilla has become my primary browser. I've been investigating the calendar feature too. I plan on proposing that we implement it company-wide at my work. Mozilla has matured greatly and it's only getting better. You should check it out again.
If I was on a site that set cookies and cleared my cache, Mozilla 1.4a would crash. I kept submitting feedback reports and I hope they fixed this. Off to download now......
I would assume that most people would have caught the reference. Read the category: "It's funny laugh!". Anyone who hasn't seen Airplane is living in a cave.
So they win all the battles... yet lose the war. There are laws against spamming and kiddie pr0n too... but, a lot of good they do. Making a law to ban MP3s isn't going to stop file-sharing. It will only get better and go farther underground. The RIAA fucked up when they sued Napster. They could have started their own music service and stayed in business. Instead they decided to declare war on their customers.
Now... we just have to build this capability into our favorite P2P apps. Everytime you launch Gnutella, Limewire, KaZaa, WinMX, etc... it should do a massive DDoS attack on the RIAA all the time. We should make sure these fuckers *never* get back on the Net.
That's the beauty of being single.... you can leave your pr0n all over the place, with the original names. If you are so concerned about the wifey... why not just create a separate account for her under Win2K or XP and then make all your files unreadable? If she is logged in as her account she wouldn't even be able to browse the contents of your folders.
But, the RIAA isn't the Gov't. Basically, corportations are "protected individual entities". They can get away with a hell of a lot more than any Gov't ever could. That is why the US Gov't likes to "outsource" all their dirty work to private corportations -- they can't be held accoutable:
Slashdot Mirror
As much as we all hate to admit it the "all-you-can-eat" days of the buffet are almost over. Metered bandwidth is coming and thos who use the most will pay the most.
Leveraging their 90% marketshare of the desktop this will become yet another monopoly for Microsoft. I say we wait until this thing gets going full scale and then file a class-action suit against them. Once this takes off -- there will be no alternatives on the Windows platform. Millions of lemmings will run right off the cliff and just start using this service because it is built right into the OS.
I had another plan.... just set up SpamAssassin and then forward all your filtered spam directly to your Congressmen. And, just for good measure, you can CC president@whitehouse.gov too. If everyone in the USA did this there would be new anti-spam laws passed by next week.
XHTML to the rescue. Not well formed?
No soup for you!
If you include DRM -- you will sink like a lead balloon. The customers have spoken. Now, we just need to turn the heat up on Microsoft. Why wasn't their a backlash like this for Microsoft? People need to tell companies that they won't stand for this type of behavior. Let's hope that Microsoft is taking notes. Palladium is going to have the same problems as Intuit did.
REDMOND, Washington - March 10, 2003 - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), the proven owner of the patent for Most Hated Company of All Time, today announced that it has filed legal action against The SCO® Group (SCO) (NASDAQ: SCOX) in the State Court of Washington, for misappropriation of corporate image, torturous interference, unfair competition and breach of contract. The complaint alleges that SCO made concentrated efforts to improperly destroy the monetary value of Microsoft's image as Most Hated Company of All Time, particularly Most Hated Company of All Time in the Information Technology sector, to benefit SCO's licensing division.
:)
Taken from: Microsoft files lawsuit against SCO
It's funny. Laugh.
They have backed them in the past:
Google Cache of The Reg article
Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera Systems, will become CEO of a new Caldera Inc, which became a shell company after Caldera won its antitrust case against Microsoft. SCO president David McCrabb will become president of Caldera Inc. Bryan Sparks will remain with Lineo, which has filed for IPO.
The deal is interesting because of the complex and somewhat incestuous relationship between Caldera, SCO, Microsoft, Citrix, and Novell. Microsoft acquired SCO shares as a result of getting SCO, founded in 1978 by Doug and Larry Michels, to produce a version of Unix called Xenix. Microsoft had licensed Unix from AT&T, and the product was first marketed in 1979. In 1987, Microsoft was concerned that AT&T's Unix applications might not run with Xenix. As a consequence, AT&T agreed to add some Xenix code to its Unix and to pay Microsoft a royalty for this.
Ray Noorda subsequently acquired Unix from AT&T for Novell, held it for two years, and then it was sold to SCO in 1995 - with Novell receiving a 13.8 per cent holding in SCO as part of the deal. The next year, SCO realised that the code added to Unix was no longer needed or relevant, so it asked Microsoft to agree to end the agreement. Microsoft refused, with the consequence that SCO complained to the European Commission competition directorate early in 1997. In FY 1998, SCO paid Microsoft more than $1.138 million in royalties. In January, Microsoft sold its entire 12.3 per cent holding in SCO, and the SCO share price began to collapse.
These are a chair/PC combo.
The PC probably adds $3,000 to the price. I just want the chair. I already have 5 computers. Even better... sell the chair as a kit for $999.
Every good /. story that I want to read is gone. The HERF gun... and now this. WTF!? When is /. going to start caching this stuff locally before linking to it? They should make this "from the you'll-never-see-this-site-anyway department."
GRRRRRRRRRRRR......
Fuck it.... I've got Karma to burn and this rant felt good.
Everytime I hit a page that wants to install foreign fonts (like Japanese)... Mozilla 1.4a pops up a dialog box. You click "Cancel" and it comes back. Keeps doing it until you close out the window.
Looks like he might be interested in some catalogs:
Registrant Contact:
mousehouse interactive
Duncan Shiels David Danowski (danks@europa.com)
503.289.2536
FAX: none
7709 N. Denver Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
US
www.defibworld.com uses bogus WHOIS info. I've filed a complaint with eNom, Inc. We just need to find his mailing address and we can "Ralsky" this guy too.
I just wrote to the legal dept. at eNom and demanded that they fix his bogus WHOIS information. Next step... file a complaint with ICANN. We should have his mailing address shortly.
Looks like he has bogus WHOIS data....
Step 1: Report him.
Step 2: Find out where he lives.
Definitely! I love tabbed browsing, and the popup and cookie features are far superior to IE. Mozilla has become my primary browser. I've been investigating the calendar feature too. I plan on proposing that we implement it company-wide at my work. Mozilla has matured greatly and it's only getting better. You should check it out again.
If I was on a site that set cookies and cleared my cache, Mozilla 1.4a would crash. I kept submitting feedback reports and I hope they fixed this. Off to download now......
I would assume that most people would have caught the reference. Read the category: "It's funny laugh!". Anyone who hasn't seen Airplane is living in a cave.
Nurse : Can I get you something?
Mental Patient 1: S'mo fo butter layin' to the bone. Jackin' me up. Tightly.
Nurse : I'm sorry I don't understand.
Mental Patient 2: Cutty say he cant hang.
Jive Translator : Oh nurse, I speak jive.
Nurse : Ohhhh, good.
Jive Translator : He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Nurse : Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine.
Jive Translator : Jus' hang loose blooood. She goonna catch up on the`rebound a de medcide.
Mental Patient 1 : What it is big mamma, my mamma didn't raise no dummy, I dug her rap.
Jive Translator : Cut me som' slac' jak! Chump don wan no help, chump don git no help. Jive ass dude don got no brains anyhow.
So they win all the battles... yet lose the war. There are laws against spamming and kiddie pr0n too... but, a lot of good they do. Making a law to ban MP3s isn't going to stop file-sharing. It will only get better and go farther underground. The RIAA fucked up when they sued Napster. They could have started their own music service and stayed in business. Instead they decided to declare war on their customers.
Oh... it's already been BER-ROUGHT.
Now... we just have to build this capability into our favorite P2P apps. Everytime you launch Gnutella, Limewire, KaZaa, WinMX, etc... it should do a massive DDoS attack on the RIAA all the time. We should make sure these fuckers *never* get back on the Net.
That's the beauty of being single.... you can leave your pr0n all over the place, with the original names. If you are so concerned about the wifey... why not just create a separate account for her under Win2K or XP and then make all your files unreadable? If she is logged in as her account she wouldn't even be able to browse the contents of your folders.
THE ROLE OF PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES
http://www.boycott-riaa.com/links/
They do it to me.... I do it to them. What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander. They might come to wish they had never started this war.