If what you say is true, then a company should illegally dump toxic waste if the increase in profit outweighs the potential loss if they get caught. Can you really argue that position?
From Fight Club: Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Personally, I have no trouble believing that the above sort of thing really does go on to some degree. Corporate ethics? Do those words go together anymore? IMHO, the only reasons large corporations do anything honorable are so they can make television commercials about how touchy-feely they are and how much they care about (the Earth's ecosystem/global warming/some endangered species/saving you money/making the world safe for your children/etc). Hell, half the time they're probably just doing something required by law and expecting that people won't know that.
To heavily paraprhase Chris Rock, "an unethical corporation brags about shit an ethical corporation just does":
"I take care of my employees!" "You supposed to, ya dumb muthafucka!!!"
"Our CFO ain't never been indicted for securities fraud!" "Whatcha want, a cookie?!?"
If it suddenly required multiple attempts to change the channel, TiVo could just send out a software update so the PVR selects channel n three times in a row when it's about to record a program on channel n, to make absolutely sure that the cable box is showing the proper channel.
For reasons unknown to me, my TiVo (Series 1) currently seems to input the channel both before it starts recording and again after the recording stops.
A) You lower the price on your products to something sane and reasonable. And let's not bullshit, okay? You've been nailed twice by the FTC for price fixing, and yet somehow I still can't find any CD I want for less than $15 unless I buy it used-- and of course then I'm still a thief in your eyes, just for a different reason.
B) You don't foist crappy product on your customers. I'm tired of buying CDs on the strength of 1 or 2 good songs that got radio airplay, only to find out that the other 9 or 10 songs on the CD are complete and utter shit.
C) You allow returns of product for no other reason than customer dissatisfaction. Put the time, money and energy you're wasting on DRM into finding a way to allow this sort of thing that minimizes abuse of the system.
There you go, Hilary. Pick any two of the above and do them, and I'll happily start buying CDs again. Otherwise, fsck off and die.
From page 109 of the hardcover version of Insanely Great, by Steven Levy:
Ultimately, after some deft negotiating with the McDonald's fast-food chain on the status of trade names prefixed "Mac," it became the computer's true name.
While not specifically stating that any money changed hands, I highly doubt that 'deft negotiating' only consisted of Steve Jobs repeatedly calling them and saying, "Plllleeeeeeeeease, please, PLEASE, can we use it????"
Oh, and while we're on the subject. Apple also had to pay off McIntosh Laboratory, makers of ultra-high-end audio equipment, for the use of the Macintosh name, because it was a phonetic infringement on the former's trademark. And that tidbit comes from pages 86-87 of The Mac Bathroom Reader.
_6dD$think they have the right to forbid everyone else from using the word "Apple", even if they have nothing to do with computers or operating systems.
Apple Communications sells broadband. What the hell do you think people will be hooking up to that, tin cans to holler into? There is a clear conflict there.
(what's next, suing McDonald's and Scotsmen for using "Mac"?
Actually, Apple had to pay off McDonald's so they could use "Mac," even though there's no connection between a computer and shitty fast food.
You want to rail against a big corporation being ridiculous with the trademarks, McDonald's is a much better choice. They were actually in a legal battle in Scotland with the centuries-old Clan McDonald over the use of the name, for pretty much anything. Now THAT is being a dick.
And for all you mac using scivvy boys n girls i have never had more than 10 minutes uptime on a mac, yet i have windows 2k on 25 days before it crashed and Windows XP on 37 Days (Proof) before an accidental restart.
It's a poor carpenter who blames his tools. When properly set up, Macs are quite stable-- like my home automation server, up for 119 days now and still going strong. The uptime would be even greater, except I shut my systems down and unplug them when particularly strong thunderstorms roll through my area-- and one did just that 119 days ago.
My Win2k box at work is NEVER shut down, and never crashes. It would have pretty spectacular uptime were it not for the restart required after installation of the security patch du jour. My XP Pro box at home likewise never crashes, but there's no uptime records to be had there because I shut it down at night-- it's about 5 feet from my head when I'm in bed, and the fans required to keep the beast cool are so damned noisy they'd keep me awake.
So what they're saying is, people are only getting these phones for their customizability? That would be analogous to buying a car not for transportation, but just so you can paint it puke green and stick "Type R" stickers and a ridiculous fin on it (although that may be a bad analogy, because I think some losers DO that).
Does anyone have a sub-etha sens-o-matic I can borrow? I think the collective IQ of this planet has dropped to the point where I need to leave it and find another.
The point of the WWW is to be able to link to information! Deep links that expire are an abomination! Tim Berners-Lee is spinning in his grave (or would be, if he were dead)!
These are all the listings I could find for the single word "Windows" that are registered to Microsoft.
Just from a cursory look at these, it would appear that the only way you could use "windows" in reference to a computer or electronic device without fear of a cease and desist letter from Microsoft would be to say, "If there weren't windows in my computer room, I would never see daylight."
...even though MS isn't in the habit of calling things "Windows Doongle Dongle".
What are you talking about? They use it all the time! "Windows Update," "Windows Catalog," "Windows Media Player," "Windows Messenger," "Windows Movie Maker," and "Windows Explorer" are all sitting in the Start menu of my XP box.
Having said that, I think these third-party software makers should tell Microsoft to go fsck themselves. Microsoft chose their product names with the specific intent of co-opting the generic terms-- they reaped the benefit of that almost from the day they started doing it, and now they're going to cry about it when the pendulum swings the other way? Forget it! I know that all the targets will knuckle under because they can't afford the lawyers to fight this bullying, but if this ever made it into a courtroom, I think the little guys would prevail.
I watched the first two episodes of Firefly, and just thought it was okay. It didn't put the hook in my heart like 24 did after I caught one episode. Still, I can feel the pain of those who loved the show. FOX has fucked us all at one point or another-- for example, I stubbornly refuse to remove Family Guy and Undeclared from my TiVo's Season Pass list, for sentimental reasons.
Someone needs to start up a cable network just for all these promising and/or loved-by-a-small-but-loyal-army shows that were killed prematurely-- maybe make it a pay channel like HBO, and let the subscribers vote on the schedule. Then we discriminating viewers will have something to watch while the majority (read: morons) are enjoying "American Idol 8," "Celebrity Bukkake" and "World's Wildest Snuff Videos."
...OS X suffers from many of the same undesirable qualities as Windows: for instance......it requires hefty licensing fees.
The cheapest Xserve you can buy is $2999 and includes a copy of Mac OS X Server with an UNLIMITED concurrent-client access license. When I showed the specs on the Xserve to the Windows guys in my company, their jaws hit the floor when they saw that. How much does a comparable license cost for Windows 2000 Server? Last time my company bought a license like that for a Windows-based client, it was in the high four to low five figures, and didn't include the price of the server hardware. Right there, that's significant savings over using Microsoft stuff.
I can't really comment on the workstation pricing as I am not familiar with Microsoft's pricing. However, Apple is selling 5-license "family" packs of OS X for $199, which works out to $40 per seat. I can't imagine the business volume-license pricing for OS X being much different from that.
Moreover, the huge variety of apps availble under Windows are mostly NOT avaible under OS X.
Uh huh. And that's an issue how, when probably 85% of people who use a computer as part of their office job only use Microsoft Office (which is available for the Mac), a browser, and an e-mail client?
I'm sure it is a great computer, but even die hard Mac fans I know are buying PC's because they can not afford the computer they really want.
Whatever happened to the concept of "working hard and saving up to get what you really want"?
I'd been using the same Power Mac 7600 I bought new in 1996 until a month or so ago, when I picked up a G4. I had been stashing money away for several months to do this, and made the final $600 push by eBaying a ton of old computer parts and other hi-tech detritus that had built up in my house over the years. For my efforts I got a computer that will most likely fill all my computing needs for the next six years at least-- and the only reason I replaced the 7600 when I did was because I needed a machine that could capably run OS X without having to resort to any funky hacks.
In January I'll get my bonus check for this year, and I'm using a healthy chunk of that to replace my dual (17" & 14") CRTs with dual (19" & 15") LCDs, and possibly an Aeron chair-- if I had been getting that money all along as it was earned, I'd have been socking it away as well.
They won't be able to do it during the current mission, but there is a precedent for a satellite rescue, I read about it yesterday. I don't remember the particulars, but the shuttle snagged a satellite that didn't reach its intended orbit, and the faulty booster module on it was replaced so it was able to reach said orbit.
Dunno if they'll be able to do that in this case since the way the article read, the launch vehicle was supposed to deliver yesterday's satellite all the way up to geosync orbit. I presume the onboard satellite booster is the engine we see on the satellites as they come spinning out of the shuttle cargo bay, so this bird might not have had one, nor a way to easily attach one.
I think that there should be a discount for the elderly.
Now THERE'S a trade-off... more old people online = less old people driving in front of me IRL... but then when I get home and log on to the Sims Online, I can't take my SimLamborghini for a spin because the SimStreets are choked with little blue-haired old ladies going 25 on the SimInterstate in a SimReliant K.
Yup. I've got three beige Power Macs that I've loaded up with RAM, G3 or G4 upgrade cards, USB cards, IDE controller cards and drives, and either a 10/100 Ethernet card or a second video card.
One of the 7600s was purchased new by me in 1996, and was my primary machine until a few months ago when I got hold of a free beige G3 which I then stuffed with upgrades bought for chump change on eBay. Now the original 7600 and another one I bought on eBay are being used in my house as servers. The PCI-based Power Macs are very upgradable machines, and they make fantastic servers. One of my 7600s is a home-control/monitoring machine, and currently has an uptime of 113 days-- mind you, that's with the *classic* Mac OS. It would be longer than that, but 113 days ago a truly hellacious thunderstorm rolled through my area and I took my machines down to be absolutely safe.
The beige G3 is going to be retired in January and will be replaced by a Quicksilver G4/733 I bought on eBay, which had a couple upgrades performed by its previous owner-- right now it's in the basement being prepped (I'm making a very slow transition of all my apps and data to OS X). Once the G4 takes over, the beige G3 will either be promoted to server duty or sold on eBay.
The 'graphics guys' just replace their machines because it's quicker and easier than hunting down the best upgrade bang-for-the-buck-- and since Macs retain a higher resale value for a longer period of time, they can just sell the old Mac to take a chunk out of the price of the new Mac.
...by telling you to just forget about Philadelphia right now. Comcast has their HQ here, and they will not tolerate any competition on their home turf, period.
RCN tried a couple years back to get a foothold in the city, and Comcast threw up every kind of barrier (legal, financial, political) you could think of until RCN gave up and retreated back to Princeton with their tail between their legs.
Since I'm currently watching a TiVoed episode ot The Outer Limits where this is a common theme, I have to raise the question of "the promising new technology being perverted into a weapon."
If you can form structures out of crap floating in space, why couldn't it just be compressed into a large enough object to survive re-entry, and sent on its merry way, aimed at what the aggressor wants to obliterate here on Earth?
Imagine if GWB suddenly backed down on all his we-gotta-git-Saddam rhetoric because it was getting hom nowhere and the American people were firmly against attacking Iraq, and then two or three months later Baghdad was mysteriously leveled by an nearby meteor strike one morning.
Who's to say where one's career will take them in life? Bill Wyman-the-journalist was at Salon.com at one point and left there to take the position of Arts Editor at the AJC. It's not his fault that he came to a point in his career where the name he had since birth was the same as that of someone about whom he'd occasionally write articles.
If the former Rolling Stone takes this all the way and wins, it could set a dangerous precedent where no one who just happens to share their name with a famous individual is safe from being sued over it.
I'm going to follow this story with interest, because it's coming down to "I had it first" vs. "I'm richer and more famous." I know who I'm rooting for.
AFAICT, Bill Wyman the journalist has no website to call his own. I have no idea why this was posted under the Internet category, because I submitted it under News.
Anyway, the lawyers are objecting to Bill Wyman the journalist using his given name on the byline of the articles he writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (and, I suppose, any other publication for which he writes). Not because he owns any domain name relating to the name Bill Wyman.
This action strikes me as even more outlandish and insidious than anything the big corporations have done over real or alleged domain squatting. That's why I submitted the article.
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If what you say is true, then a company should illegally dump toxic waste if the increase in profit outweighs the potential loss if they get caught. Can you really argue that position?
From Fight Club:
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Personally, I have no trouble believing that the above sort of thing really does go on to some degree. Corporate ethics? Do those words go together anymore? IMHO, the only reasons large corporations do anything honorable are so they can make television commercials about how touchy-feely they are and how much they care about (the Earth's ecosystem/global warming/some endangered species/saving you money/making the world safe for your children/etc). Hell, half the time they're probably just doing something required by law and expecting that people won't know that.
To heavily paraprhase Chris Rock, "an unethical corporation brags about shit an ethical corporation just does":
"I take care of my employees!"
"You supposed to, ya dumb muthafucka!!!"
"Our CFO ain't never been indicted for securities fraud!"
"Whatcha want, a cookie?!?"
~Philly
If it suddenly required multiple attempts to change the channel, TiVo could just send out a software update so the PVR selects channel n three times in a row when it's about to record a program on channel n, to make absolutely sure that the cable box is showing the proper channel.
For reasons unknown to me, my TiVo (Series 1) currently seems to input the channel both before it starts recording and again after the recording stops.
~Philly
I'll stop 'stealing' your products when:
A) You lower the price on your products to something sane and reasonable. And let's not bullshit, okay? You've been nailed twice by the FTC for price fixing, and yet somehow I still can't find any CD I want for less than $15 unless I buy it used-- and of course then I'm still a thief in your eyes, just for a different reason.
B) You don't foist crappy product on your customers. I'm tired of buying CDs on the strength of 1 or 2 good songs that got radio airplay, only to find out that the other 9 or 10 songs on the CD are complete and utter shit.
C) You allow returns of product for no other reason than customer dissatisfaction. Put the time, money and energy you're wasting on DRM into finding a way to allow this sort of thing that minimizes abuse of the system.
There you go, Hilary. Pick any two of the above and do them, and I'll happily start buying CDs again. Otherwise, fsck off and die.
Respectfully,
~Philly
From page 109 of the hardcover version of Insanely Great, by Steven Levy:
Ultimately, after some deft negotiating with the McDonald's fast-food chain on the status of trade names prefixed "Mac," it became the computer's true name.
While not specifically stating that any money changed hands, I highly doubt that 'deft negotiating' only consisted of Steve Jobs repeatedly calling them and saying, "Plllleeeeeeeeease, please, PLEASE, can we use it????"
Oh, and while we're on the subject. Apple also had to pay off McIntosh Laboratory, makers of ultra-high-end audio equipment, for the use of the Macintosh name, because it was a phonetic infringement on the former's trademark. And that tidbit comes from pages 86-87 of The Mac Bathroom Reader.
~Philly
_6dD$think they have the right to forbid everyone else from using the word "Apple", even if they have nothing to do with computers or operating systems.
Apple Communications sells broadband. What the hell do you think people will be hooking up to that, tin cans to holler into? There is a clear conflict there.
(what's next, suing McDonald's and Scotsmen for using "Mac"?
Actually, Apple had to pay off McDonald's so they could use "Mac," even though there's no connection between a computer and shitty fast food.
You want to rail against a big corporation being ridiculous with the trademarks, McDonald's is a much better choice. They were actually in a legal battle in Scotland with the centuries-old Clan McDonald over the use of the name, for pretty much anything. Now THAT is being a dick.
~Philly
LEGO themselves sell a Star Destroyer set. It's got over 3000 pieces, is 3' long when completed, and costs damn near $300.
~Philly
And for all you mac using scivvy boys n girls i have never had more than 10 minutes uptime on a mac, yet i have windows 2k on 25 days before it crashed and Windows XP on 37 Days (Proof) before an accidental restart.
It's a poor carpenter who blames his tools. When properly set up, Macs are quite stable-- like my home automation server, up for 119 days now and still going strong. The uptime would be even greater, except I shut my systems down and unplug them when particularly strong thunderstorms roll through my area-- and one did just that 119 days ago.
My Win2k box at work is NEVER shut down, and never crashes. It would have pretty spectacular uptime were it not for the restart required after installation of the security patch du jour. My XP Pro box at home likewise never crashes, but there's no uptime records to be had there because I shut it down at night-- it's about 5 feet from my head when I'm in bed, and the fans required to keep the beast cool are so damned noisy they'd keep me awake.
~Philly
So what they're saying is, people are only getting these phones for their customizability? That would be analogous to buying a car not for transportation, but just so you can paint it puke green and stick "Type R" stickers and a ridiculous fin on it (although that may be a bad analogy, because I think some losers DO that).
Does anyone have a sub-etha sens-o-matic I can borrow? I think the collective IQ of this planet has dropped to the point where I need to leave it and find another.
~Philly
The point of the WWW is to be able to link to information! Deep links that expire are an abomination! Tim Berners-Lee is spinning in his grave (or would be, if he were dead)!
~Philly
These are all the listings I could find for the single word "Windows" that are registered to Microsoft.
Just from a cursory look at these, it would appear that the only way you could use "windows" in reference to a computer or electronic device without fear of a cease and desist letter from Microsoft would be to say, "If there weren't windows in my computer room, I would never see daylight."
Listing 1, Listing 2
Listing 3, Listing 4
Listing 5, Listing 6
Listing 7, Listing 8
Listing 9, Listing 10
Listing 11, Listing 12
Listing 13
~Philly
...even though MS isn't in the habit of calling things "Windows Doongle Dongle".
What are you talking about? They use it all the time! "Windows Update," "Windows Catalog," "Windows Media Player," "Windows Messenger," "Windows Movie Maker," and "Windows Explorer" are all sitting in the Start menu of my XP box.
Having said that, I think these third-party software makers should tell Microsoft to go fsck themselves. Microsoft chose their product names with the specific intent of co-opting the generic terms-- they reaped the benefit of that almost from the day they started doing it, and now they're going to cry about it when the pendulum swings the other way? Forget it! I know that all the targets will knuckle under because they can't afford the lawyers to fight this bullying, but if this ever made it into a courtroom, I think the little guys would prevail.
~Philly
And the eighth and final rule ... if this is your first night at Google, you HAVE to Google.
~Philly
Trademarks infringe on YOU!
... you've got to call it "Itty Bitty Mozilla!"
~Philly
I watched the first two episodes of Firefly, and just thought it was okay. It didn't put the hook in my heart like 24 did after I caught one episode. Still, I can feel the pain of those who loved the show. FOX has fucked us all at one point or another-- for example, I stubbornly refuse to remove Family Guy and Undeclared from my TiVo's Season Pass list, for sentimental reasons.
Someone needs to start up a cable network just for all these promising and/or loved-by-a-small-but-loyal-army shows that were killed prematurely-- maybe make it a pay channel like HBO, and let the subscribers vote on the schedule. Then we discriminating viewers will have something to watch while the majority (read: morons) are enjoying "American Idol 8," "Celebrity Bukkake" and "World's Wildest Snuff Videos."
~Philly
...OS X suffers from many of the same undesirable qualities as Windows: for instance... ...it requires hefty licensing fees.
The cheapest Xserve you can buy is $2999 and includes a copy of Mac OS X Server with an UNLIMITED concurrent-client access license. When I showed the specs on the Xserve to the Windows guys in my company, their jaws hit the floor when they saw that. How much does a comparable license cost for Windows 2000 Server? Last time my company bought a license like that for a Windows-based client, it was in the high four to low five figures, and didn't include the price of the server hardware. Right there, that's significant savings over using Microsoft stuff.
I can't really comment on the workstation pricing as I am not familiar with Microsoft's pricing. However, Apple is selling 5-license "family" packs of OS X for $199, which works out to $40 per seat. I can't imagine the business volume-license pricing for OS X being much different from that.
Moreover, the huge variety of apps availble under Windows are mostly NOT avaible under OS X.
Uh huh. And that's an issue how, when probably 85% of people who use a computer as part of their office job only use Microsoft Office (which is available for the Mac), a browser, and an e-mail client?
~Philly
I'm sure it is a great computer, but even die hard Mac fans I know are buying PC's because they can not afford the computer they really want.
Whatever happened to the concept of "working hard and saving up to get what you really want"?
I'd been using the same Power Mac 7600 I bought new in 1996 until a month or so ago, when I picked up a G4. I had been stashing money away for several months to do this, and made the final $600 push by eBaying a ton of old computer parts and other hi-tech detritus that had built up in my house over the years. For my efforts I got a computer that will most likely fill all my computing needs for the next six years at least-- and the only reason I replaced the 7600 when I did was because I needed a machine that could capably run OS X without having to resort to any funky hacks.
In January I'll get my bonus check for this year, and I'm using a healthy chunk of that to replace my dual (17" & 14") CRTs with dual (19" & 15") LCDs, and possibly an Aeron chair-- if I had been getting that money all along as it was earned, I'd have been socking it away as well.
~Philly
They won't be able to do it during the current mission, but there is a precedent for a satellite rescue, I read about it yesterday. I don't remember the particulars, but the shuttle snagged a satellite that didn't reach its intended orbit, and the faulty booster module on it was replaced so it was able to reach said orbit.
Dunno if they'll be able to do that in this case since the way the article read, the launch vehicle was supposed to deliver yesterday's satellite all the way up to geosync orbit. I presume the onboard satellite booster is the engine we see on the satellites as they come spinning out of the shuttle cargo bay, so this bird might not have had one, nor a way to easily attach one.
~Philly
I think that there should be a discount for the elderly.
Now THERE'S a trade-off... more old people online = less old people driving in front of me IRL... but then when I get home and log on to the Sims Online, I can't take my SimLamborghini for a spin because the SimStreets are choked with little blue-haired old ladies going 25 on the SimInterstate in a SimReliant K.
~Philly
Do people actually upgrade Macs?
Yup. I've got three beige Power Macs that I've loaded up with RAM, G3 or G4 upgrade cards, USB cards, IDE controller cards and drives, and either a 10/100 Ethernet card or a second video card.
One of the 7600s was purchased new by me in 1996, and was my primary machine until a few months ago when I got hold of a free beige G3 which I then stuffed with upgrades bought for chump change on eBay. Now the original 7600 and another one I bought on eBay are being used in my house as servers. The PCI-based Power Macs are very upgradable machines, and they make fantastic servers. One of my 7600s is a home-control/monitoring machine, and currently has an uptime of 113 days-- mind you, that's with the *classic* Mac OS. It would be longer than that, but 113 days ago a truly hellacious thunderstorm rolled through my area and I took my machines down to be absolutely safe.
The beige G3 is going to be retired in January and will be replaced by a Quicksilver G4/733 I bought on eBay, which had a couple upgrades performed by its previous owner-- right now it's in the basement being prepped (I'm making a very slow transition of all my apps and data to OS X). Once the G4 takes over, the beige G3 will either be promoted to server duty or sold on eBay.
The 'graphics guys' just replace their machines because it's quicker and easier than hunting down the best upgrade bang-for-the-buck-- and since Macs retain a higher resale value for a longer period of time, they can just sell the old Mac to take a chunk out of the price of the new Mac.
~Philly
...by telling you to just forget about Philadelphia right now. Comcast has their HQ here, and they will not tolerate any competition on their home turf, period.
RCN tried a couple years back to get a foothold in the city, and Comcast threw up every kind of barrier (legal, financial, political) you could think of until RCN gave up and retreated back to Princeton with their tail between their legs.
~Philly
Maybe it'll be a sequel to this.
~Philly
Since I'm currently watching a TiVoed episode ot The Outer Limits where this is a common theme, I have to raise the question of "the promising new technology being perverted into a weapon."
If you can form structures out of crap floating in space, why couldn't it just be compressed into a large enough object to survive re-entry, and sent on its merry way, aimed at what the aggressor wants to obliterate here on Earth?
Imagine if GWB suddenly backed down on all his we-gotta-git-Saddam rhetoric because it was getting hom nowhere and the American people were firmly against attacking Iraq, and then two or three months later Baghdad was mysteriously leveled by an nearby meteor strike one morning.
~Philly
Who's to say where one's career will take them in life? Bill Wyman-the-journalist was at Salon.com at one point and left there to take the position of Arts Editor at the AJC. It's not his fault that he came to a point in his career where the name he had since birth was the same as that of someone about whom he'd occasionally write articles.
If the former Rolling Stone takes this all the way and wins, it could set a dangerous precedent where no one who just happens to share their name with a famous individual is safe from being sued over it.
I'm going to follow this story with interest, because it's coming down to "I had it first" vs. "I'm richer and more famous." I know who I'm rooting for.
~Philly
AFAICT, Bill Wyman the journalist has no website to call his own. I have no idea why this was posted under the Internet category, because I submitted it under News.
Anyway, the lawyers are objecting to Bill Wyman the journalist using his given name on the byline of the articles he writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (and, I suppose, any other publication for which he writes). Not because he owns any domain name relating to the name Bill Wyman.
This action strikes me as even more outlandish and insidious than anything the big corporations have done over real or alleged domain squatting. That's why I submitted the article.
~Philly