Nope--they wanted to, but never closed the deal until now. (And they bought the characters rather than the whole bag of chips.) Here ya go:
Disney makes Muppet move The deal culminates a decades-long pursuit by Disney, which came close to acquiring the characters in 1990. The deal fell apart shortly after the death of company founder Jim Henson.
The company then was bought by German media company EM.TV, which sold it back to the Henson family last year.
The deal includes a four-year consulting arrangement with the Jim Henson Co. to provide strategic advice on the use of the characters and a three-year production deal to develop movies, television shows and other projects using the characters.
I leave a lot of ads unblocked. Someone has to notice when they pull something slimey.:^)(I do currently block ads.osdn.com because at one time some of the ads kept trying to run ActiveX. I should probably just restrict that domain rather than blocking it.)
I doubt I'd ignore dshield's notice. It wasn't vibrating so it really caught my eye!
Nothing illegal about p2p software--just how some people use it. Writers of p2p software can try to use legal means to collect money, but who the hell would pay for their registered copy when there's so many other free versions or cracked copies?
They're trying to make money by giving the software away. Their main options for income are banner ads, or spyware and other malware. If they used the service model of payment, their central servers would be targeted by the RIAA in a heartbeat--if the RIAA had one.
Most spammers don't use open relays these days. They use open proxies, which are different. (No logging in the Received lines of the email, and no store/forward--it's the spammer's machine doing the real work.)
From some of the spam I've been getting, I think that some spammers are playing with zombie relay malware. That allows them to load up a whole spam run on a zombie machine and move on to the next one. I'll bet that their relay software is designed to not look like an open relay to anyone else. Why share the box with other spammers, and why set off open relay detectors?
the "Warning, your machine is broadcasting an IP..." ad. that used to run.
Used to? One company that was doing it got slapped, but I'm sure I've seen that one recently. (Could be wrong, after a while it's just web page fluff that I haven't bother to block and don't really look at, like the "clock fix" one.)
But you're right that I'd probably ignore anything that looked like that.
I thought Disney now owned all story salvage rights to Atlantis? They've done that to all the other stories that they've ripped^w adapted from stories hundreds of years old. (And then they got the copyrights endlessly extended to prevent anyone from doing the same.)
They've just bought the Muppets too. This does not bode well.
It might finally train the clueless to not open every attachment in email. Memories linked to smells are apparently the most persistant. If that doesn't work, then some kind of I/O gadget involving electrodes to body parts might be required.
Imagine, too, the anguished hand-wringing of governments when the technology reaches a point where you can print parts for an AK-47.
Come now! We already have printers that can't print money. If someone did invent a universal fabricator, how long would it be before they had filters to prevent it from making various things from a (ever-expanding) banned list?
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Because it doesn't work well enough yet? For a limited vocabulary and grammar, fine. Not so good for general dictation.
Also, when writers switched from typewriters to computers, a number said that their process of writing changed. (Some fell in love with cut'n'paste, bleh!)
If mandrake is out, and no takers for nightshade, remember that nightshade is a large family of plants that include potato, tomato, eggplant, bell peppers and tobacco.
Eggplant Linux with the purple logo! (And before anyone suggests Bell Pepper Linux, please remember what the unit of ohmygawdthatshotness is: Sco-vile units!)
There was a modem company called Gandalf in Canada. I think they're safely defunct--unless someone aquired their trademark rights. (It would take extreme gall to try to enforce a zombie trademark name lifted from Tolkien, but the name Caldera/SCO springs to mind for some reason.)
But there was spam on BBSs. Any number of times people would attempt to post/mail some kind of Make Money Fast scam on my BBS. The lameness filter would almost always catch it, but they kept trying.
MS declared (1995ish) that OLE was no longer the acronym OLE standing for Object Linking and Embedding, but the name OLE which didn't stand for anything. 11th paragraph. It's one of those Through the Looking Glass things.
According my closest dictionary, an abbreviation has to be part of what it's making shorter.
It's not very important, I'm just sensitive to that after an online test for a headhunter asked "what does the acronym OLE stand for?" (It doesn't stand for anything, but isn't an acronym. I supported my answer with quotes from dictionaries, MS and Brockschmidt, but that's an elephant.) 73s.
I have the feeling that I walked into the middle of your argument with someone else. I didn't say anything about your process, just that spammers do attempt to obscure their links.
How you deal with this in your software is your business.
How about telemarketers? No need to worry about do-not-call lists, they call you! In the same sort of thing, have an "open" WiFi access point in a downtown area. But whatever site they browse, they get your advertising site. And when they try to get their email.. ouch! (It's not spam, they connected to my network and requested it.)
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Darn straight! Never trust a university experiment whose name is a variation on HARP. It's always something fscking dangerous.
I doubt I'd ignore dshield's notice. It wasn't vibrating so it really caught my eye!
They're trying to make money by giving the software away. Their main options for income are banner ads, or spyware and other malware. If they used the service model of payment, their central servers would be targeted by the RIAA in a heartbeat--if the RIAA had one.
From some of the spam I've been getting, I think that some spammers are playing with zombie relay malware. That allows them to load up a whole spam run on a zombie machine and move on to the next one. I'll bet that their relay software is designed to not look like an open relay to anyone else. Why share the box with other spammers, and why set off open relay detectors?
Used to? One company that was doing it got slapped, but I'm sure I've seen that one recently. (Could be wrong, after a while it's just web page fluff that I haven't bother to block and don't really look at, like the "clock fix" one.)
But you're right that I'd probably ignore anything that looked like that.
Yeah, it really looked like Jackson wrote on the monitor screen. All the computer people I watched it with in the theater were shocked by the realism!
What...?
They've just bought the Muppets too. This does not bode well.
I doubt that the LaserMonks will be selling SmellJet refills for that one!
It might finally train the clueless to not open every attachment in email. Memories linked to smells are apparently the most persistant. If that doesn't work, then some kind of I/O gadget involving electrodes to body parts might be required.
* Yes, I know that many spammers make money by spamming-for-hire for an endless supply of idiots who don't.
Come now! We already have printers that can't print money. If someone did invent a universal fabricator, how long would it be before they had filters to prevent it from making various things from a (ever-expanding) banned list?
(The other planet being Earth.) 'Torn fabric' puzzle on Mars
No, it's really brine. The other rover was taken by a giant kosher dill pickle.
Also, when writers switched from typewriters to computers, a number said that their process of writing changed. (Some fell in love with cut'n'paste, bleh!)
Eggplant Linux with the purple logo! (And before anyone suggests Bell Pepper Linux, please remember what the unit of ohmygawdthatshotness is: Sco-vile units!)
But since it's a man-drake, it would have to be some kind of anthropomorphic duck. Perhaps with sort-of hand and feet, maybe a sailor costume?
There was a modem company called Gandalf in Canada. I think they're safely defunct--unless someone aquired their trademark rights. (It would take extreme gall to try to enforce a zombie trademark name lifted from Tolkien, but the name Caldera/SCO springs to mind for some reason.)
But there was spam on BBSs. Any number of times people would attempt to post/mail some kind of Make Money Fast scam on my BBS. The lameness filter would almost always catch it, but they kept trying.
MS declared (1995ish) that OLE was no longer the acronym OLE standing for Object Linking and Embedding, but the name OLE which didn't stand for anything. 11th paragraph. It's one of those Through the Looking Glass things.
It's not very important, I'm just sensitive to that after an online test for a headhunter asked "what does the acronym OLE stand for?" (It doesn't stand for anything, but isn't an acronym. I supported my answer with quotes from dictionaries, MS and Brockschmidt, but that's an elephant.) 73s.
Nitpicking, but would Q-codes qualify as TLAs since they aren't abbreviations?
"Nice house, mortgage and retirement savings you've got here. Shame if anything happened to them."
How you deal with this in your software is your business.
How about telemarketers? No need to worry about do-not-call lists, they call you! In the same sort of thing, have an "open" WiFi access point in a downtown area. But whatever site they browse, they get your advertising site. And when they try to get their email .. ouch! (It's not spam, they connected to my network and requested it.)