"The U.S. LZW patent expires June 20, 2003, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004. "
I think I speak for America as a whole when I say, "yeah, well screw all those other countries."
...I have to wonder why IBM hasn't taken the opportunity to annihilate SCO's case by now.... Seriously, Big Blue's been strangely dormant on this. What gives?
I have to wonder how you think the American legal system works, exactly. Do you think IBM just sends their giant squads of lawyers over with steel batons to beat the crap out of SCO's CEO when he looks at them the wrong way or something?
The articles, press releases, and interviews with executives that we read about on Slashdot != legal arguments before a judge.
Awhile back I looked up an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen in years. I went over to his place and he showed off his Dreamcast and a stack of pirated games.
My reaction? Channeling Stan and Kyle: Hey! You killed the Dreamcast! You bastard!!!
...I think that it again may be a great way to get young kids interested in programming. It took me about 2 minutes to get it running...just untar it, and run a shell script...
Because if there's one thing young kids know how to do, it's untaring and running shell scripts. No, wait, that's two.
Remember, freedom of speech should also be freedom not to speak as well.
It's not about freedom of speech. It's about companies selling software in such a way that the purchaser has to come back and buy upgrades two years later if they need to fix problems in the original program.
Selling software without the source code is like selling someone a car with the hood locked shut so that you have to go to the manufacturer for maintainence. I wouldn't buy a car like that, would you? If the government spends millions on software, I don't see why they should buy software like that, either.
CONGRESS--and by extension, the government--cannot abridge your freedom of speech, aside from military or criminal reasons.
Uhm, well, something is considered criminal if the Congress passes a law saying it's against the law. So, in other words, what you're saying is: Congress can't abridge your freedom of speech, except for when they abridge your freedom of speech.
I wanted to mock your post, but, unfortunately, it seems to be dead on.
So... someone fill me in here. Is it normal for organizations to ask companies for money before they'll share info about exploits? After reading the note from SNOsoft, it seems clear that they must have asked for money. How else do you explain them trying "to build a working relationship with HP" and HP (mis?)perceiving their actions as extortion.
Don't get me wrong, as far as I'm concerned, it sounds like HP needs to spend more money on developers and less on lawyers. I'm not trying to defend their actions at all. But, it seems to me that if SNOsoft was merely acting altruistically, they shouldn't need to "build a relationship" in order to "transfer the information privately."
Did everyone just log onto their Hotmail accounts at once or what? All of a sudden I'm getting the not-so-unfamiliar "Hotmail Account Temporarily Unavailable" screen. YOU SLASHDOTTED HOTMAIL! YOU BASTARDS!
So... as near as I can tell, Hotmail can be accessed fine using Mozilla. At least, I haven't had problems before. And now, when I try to get to the Personal Profile page, I get this:
Browser Not Supported
Microsoft®.NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or later.
I've received letters from registrars I don't use asking me to renew my domain(s) with them.
I've also received letters from registrars I don't use asking me to renew domains with them THAT I DON'T OWN. Most strange that... I mean, sure, I live in Omaha, but that doesn't mean I want good-news-bears-of-omaha.org
Stories like Spider-Man and Batman also have a uniquely American and, until September 11, old-fashioned sense of civics. Spider-man's motto is "With great power comes great responsibility..."
A recent study has shown that there's a direct correlation between the number of denial of service attacks reported and the number of stories Slashdot posts in a day.
I worked at a corpotation that, through mergers and such, was double-branding their product for awhile. After a certain period in time, they decided to retire an old logo. So, they recorded a song to the tune of "American Pie", and sent it to everyone's voicemail, telling them that we weren't going to use the logo anymore.
I guess the idea must have been (?) that nobody's going to forget about the change in policy after they listen to that. Personally, I had to wonder if our CEO just didn't have enough to do or something.
It is not the end and he is not really dead. "somehow" he escaped and is now staring in Dead Man Running a three issue mini-series and then he debuts his new volume 4 stuff under the Marvel Knights logo, he is a talk less kick more ass type of Cap
Hold onto your hats, true believers! By strange coincidence, I read the latest (I think it's still the latest...) issue of Captain America. Captain America was (apparently) killed by a group of Doomsday Terrorists. They didn't find his body, but from what I hear the Captain's popularity has been flagging a bit for awhile, and this might really be the end of him.
3. Students probably have Windows at home. Would they have problems with converting documents between systems? Say you create your report in Word at home, could your bring it school and use it there?
That's nothing, sonny. Why, back in my day, we had Windows at home and Apples in the schools. We had to pay for everything, we couldn't work on the same document at home and at school then either, and we liked it!
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When Linux came into existence (I've been a Linux user since *day one* of its existence....
Linus? Is that you?
"The U.S. LZW patent expires June 20, 2003, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004. "
I think I speak for America as a whole when I say, "yeah, well screw all those other countries."
Yeah, it's bad to comment on sigs, but I had to laugh...
"DISCLAIMER: The views expressed hereafter are not necessarily those of MENSA, which I am only a member of."
How about "of which I am only a member"?
And how about "The views expressed above...?"
...I have to wonder why IBM hasn't taken the opportunity to annihilate SCO's case by now.... Seriously, Big Blue's been strangely dormant on this. What gives?
I have to wonder how you think the American legal system works, exactly. Do you think IBM just sends their giant squads of lawyers over with steel batons to beat the crap out of SCO's CEO when he looks at them the wrong way or something?
The articles, press releases, and interviews with executives that we read about on Slashdot != legal arguments before a judge.
Just tell us who to invade and we'll be right on it!
No no no. The administration is against weapons of mass DESTRUCTION, not MAILING.
Awhile back I looked up an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen in years. I went over to his place and he showed off his Dreamcast and a stack of pirated games.
My reaction? Channeling Stan and Kyle: Hey! You killed the Dreamcast! You bastard!!!
When was the last time a cashier counted back your change.
I had a cashier count back my change to me the other day. It took her so long, her register started beeping at her to close the register drawer.
Mozilla = Netscape/Mozilla
Istanbul = Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul
Christianity = Judeo/Christianity
Coke = Coca-Cola/Coke/New Coke/Coke
...I think that it again may be a great way to get young kids interested in programming. It took me about 2 minutes to get it running...just untar it, and run a shell script...
Because if there's one thing young kids know how to do, it's untaring and running shell scripts. No, wait, that's two.
"We expect to be vindicated at trial....they are rank infringers," said the rank opportunist.
Remember, freedom of speech should also be freedom not to speak as well.
It's not about freedom of speech. It's about companies selling software in such a way that the purchaser has to come back and buy upgrades two years later if they need to fix problems in the original program.
Selling software without the source code is like selling someone a car with the hood locked shut so that you have to go to the manufacturer for maintainence. I wouldn't buy a car like that, would you? If the government spends millions on software, I don't see why they should buy software like that, either.
CONGRESS--and by extension, the government--cannot abridge your freedom of speech, aside from military or criminal reasons.
Uhm, well, something is considered criminal if the Congress passes a law saying it's against the law. So, in other words, what you're saying is: Congress can't abridge your freedom of speech, except for when they abridge your freedom of speech.
I wanted to mock your post, but, unfortunately, it seems to be dead on.
So... someone fill me in here. Is it normal for organizations to ask companies for money before they'll share info about exploits? After reading the note from SNOsoft, it seems clear that they must have asked for money. How else do you explain them trying "to build a working relationship with HP" and HP (mis?)perceiving their actions as extortion.
Don't get me wrong, as far as I'm concerned, it sounds like HP needs to spend more money on developers and less on lawyers. I'm not trying to defend their actions at all. But, it seems to me that if SNOsoft was merely acting altruistically, they shouldn't need to "build a relationship" in order to "transfer the information privately."
Did everyone just log onto their Hotmail accounts at once or what? All of a sudden I'm getting the not-so-unfamiliar "Hotmail Account Temporarily Unavailable" screen. YOU SLASHDOTTED HOTMAIL! YOU BASTARDS!
So... as near as I can tell, Hotmail can be accessed fine using Mozilla. At least, I haven't had problems before. And now, when I try to get to the Personal Profile page, I get this:
.NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are using. Please upgrade to a current Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or later.
Browser Not Supported
Microsoft®
The reviews for the feel good hit of the summer continue to roll in!
What? None of those were reviews of Spider-Man...
This sounds sort of neat, except that Combat won't be nearly as cool if it's single-player only.
I've received letters from registrars I don't use asking me to renew my domain(s) with them.
I've also received letters from registrars I don't use asking me to renew domains with them THAT I DON'T OWN. Most strange that... I mean, sure, I live in Omaha, but that doesn't mean I want good-news-bears-of-omaha.org
Stories like Spider-Man and Batman also have a uniquely American and, until September 11, old-fashioned sense of civics. Spider-man's motto is "With great power comes great responsibility..."
That's a uniquely American ideal? Hmmm. 'Cause America always strives to be responsible, right?
A recent study has shown that there's a direct correlation between the number of denial of service attacks reported and the number of stories Slashdot posts in a day.
I worked at a corpotation that, through mergers and such, was double-branding their product for awhile. After a certain period in time, they decided to retire an old logo. So, they recorded a song to the tune of "American Pie", and sent it to everyone's voicemail, telling them that we weren't going to use the logo anymore.
I guess the idea must have been (?) that nobody's going to forget about the change in policy after they listen to that. Personally, I had to wonder if our CEO just didn't have enough to do or something.
I'm pretty amazed that someone so clever as L. Ron Hubbard would allow something like this to happen.
A recent study has suggested that the act of dying may drastically decrease you I.Q.
It is not the end and he is not really dead. "somehow" he escaped and is now staring in Dead Man Running a three issue mini-series and then he debuts his new volume 4 stuff under the Marvel Knights logo, he is a talk less kick more ass type of Cap
Oh well. A guy can hope, can't he?
Hold onto your hats, true believers! By strange coincidence, I read the latest (I think it's still the latest...) issue of Captain America. Captain America was (apparently) killed by a group of Doomsday Terrorists. They didn't find his body, but from what I hear the Captain's popularity has been flagging a bit for awhile, and this might really be the end of him.
3. Students probably have Windows at home. Would they have problems with converting documents between systems? Say you create your report in Word at home, could your bring it school and use it there?
That's nothing, sonny. Why, back in my day, we had Windows at home and Apples in the schools. We had to pay for everything, we couldn't work on the same document at home and at school then either, and we liked it!