...that we're still arguing about this nonsense. Who cares who the registrar is? The system works, as evidenced by years of operation, and quite frankly, how often do you have a problem with it? Unless you're a competitor who wants to get in on some of this action.
What do you mean "no next big thing"? That reminds me that someone in the 19th century (I don't remember who, though) wanted to cancel patent law in the U.S., saying that everything that can be invented has been, so there is no further need for a patent office. Would you say that a few worthy things have been invented since the 19th century? (Although it would have been good if the patent office had been canceled, as that would have prevented the patent abuse that goes on today.)
It also reminds me of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, where this enormous empire of billions of planets is going to fall apart, in part because scientists, engineers, and other technical people believe that everything that can be invented has already been invented, and the empire begins to wane as a certain ennui sets in.
It is always a bad thing to think that we already know everything. How do you know that someone won't invent warp drive ten years from now? Or maybe there is a force we can harness, say, like electricity, that we don't know about yet but will discover fifteen years from now. Or perhaps some kind of antigravity device will be invented that allows cars to fly. Or maybe GM will put the finishing touches on their automatic navigation system they've been testing near San Diego for 15 years, that allows cars to drive themselves with the help of a huge network of computers controlling every section of road and each car, and an array of sensors in each vehicle that prevent collisions, so that cars can go 100 mph on the freeways at a distance of inches between them, making traffic officers, traffic tickets, traffic courts, traffic jams, traffic accidents, and other traffic things a thing of the past. I'd say that all of these potential things would change a lot of things.
... that everyone needs to concentrate on litigation and legal battles instead of making a difference by doing something constructive. Before seeing this story, I was just thinking about an article where someone said businesses in the U.S. need to stop whining about everything foreign business competition and they need to start competing with those foreign businesses instead. The trouble is that the government, meaning federal, state, county, city, and otherwise, is and has been abusing businesses for a long time with all kinds of taxes, fees, and administrative overhead that does nothing for anybody. So of course American products must cost more to cover the costs.
Why should it matter if the PS3 is delayed? How long ago did you purchase your PS2? It probably still works as well as it did on the day you first got it. You don't honestly want to throw a perfectly good machine into the landfill, do you?
Heck, even if you're sick of the same old game box, you can always run Linux on the darn thing and use it for other purposes. The way I see it, these game system makers are just taking advantage of the fact that people always want to have the newest box.
I have just copied a few dozen of your copyrighted words in order to comment on them.
I will have my legal department send you a cease and desist letter immediately, for the infringing use of the few dozen of my copyrighted words. Please have your legal department send me a similar letter for my above use of your few dozen copyrighted words.
I can understand why you shouldn't go posting a few "dozens" of copyrighted bytes... though I don't agree with the runaway copyright system that allows stuff to remain copyright protected for years after it's obsolete. Copyright should be as it once was, a temporary system that expires after, say, 20 years, so that old software and other works will enter the public domain as it once was.
But that's a subject for another post. In the meantime, I think it's preposterous to stop people from reporting bugs. It's freedom of speech, as far as I'm concerned, and it should also be your right to use reverse engineering tools to uncover bugs and to report those bugs to the world at large. Otherwise, there is a huge imbalance of power in complete favor of the program writer and in complete unfavor to the entire population that uses that program.
...they'll be transplanting spare displays from used cell phones into people to save their lives.
Do you know anybody who's always talking on their cell phone? Have you heard the joke that goes something like, "Did you hear Joe is going in for surgery next week? He's going in to have his cell phone disconnected from his ear." Yeah. That will become reality sooner than you think!
what do you mean they don't know how they did it? I thought scientists use the so-called Scientific Method they taught us all about in school. And I thought that in this Scientific Method, you're supposed to record everything you do, so that the experiment can be reproduced by other scientists.
Sounds to me like this story is a bunch of hogwash, now that I think of it. How would you even measure the temperature in order to come to the conclusion that it was 3.6 billion degrees? There's not a thermometer on the planet that can measure something that hot.
... that a world-class company like Google would commit any kind of fraud, and in fact, I firmly believe that if anything occured which appeared to be fraud, it must have been an error on Google's part. It's probably just cheaper for them to settle with this company than to drag this through an endless lawsuit.
you can't track every dollar, no matter how hard you try. The key is to educate as many people as possible, especially in the banking system, to be vigilant and to recognize things that are suspicious. This is similar to the way ex-crooks like the one a movie was made about educate bankers on how to avoid being conned.
The other key is to name the enemy. So long as the media uses euphemisms like "sectarianism" instead of calling them what they are, terrorists, people will remain confused because it sounds like some theoretical, unimportant issue. But terrorism is the issue, and it must be fought on all fronts.
... The Microsoft lawsuit against the European Union for collusion, in which Microsoft demanded damages in the form of land, has ended today, with a verdict in Microsoft's favor. After a short transition period, all EU countries will become the property of Microsoft.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the United States will be sued next.
I find it strange that Dubai, a U.S. ally in the War on Terror, should be allowed to buy the ports logistics company, while Israel, a U.S. ally in the War on Terror, should not be allowed to buy Snort's parent company.
But you have to remember that this is all politics. According to the people who work in the ports themselves, the only thing that will change after the Dubai deal is who signs their paychecks. All they do is unload shipping containers off ships, and they don't even know what's in those containers. Customs takes care of security after these things are loaded on trucks and are on their way out of the port. This is similar to the way an airline brings you to an airport, and then Customs checks you out before you waltz past them and out of the airport. If Dubai Airlines, if there is such a thing, wanted to buy a terminal at JFK, in order to provide direct flights to the U.S. for Middle Eastern businessmen, the politicians wouldn't say a word about it. They didn't say a word about Dubai buying a third of DaimlerChrysler. It's all a matter of politics.
Back to Snort, I think it's ridiculous to raise a stink about an Israeli company buying Sourcefire, especially since it's a security tool, and guess what, the Israelis know a thing or two about security. In fact, Israeli security experts and the Israeli military have been providing training to U.S. military and government personnel, especially after 9/11. Why should that be OK but not the purchase of Sourcefire? Not only that, but if you go to Israel, you'll see Microsoft campuses, Intel campuses, and lots of other technology company campuses, all over the country. If it's safe for them to be over there, it should be safe for Sourcefire to be there, too. So there's nothing to worry about...
There should be a billion dollar prize for finding the first prime number with over a billion digits. That shouldn't be too difficult to do with a pocket calculator, pencil, and paper.
They should buy Intel and FreeScale, so they can control the microprocessor. They should integrate the two processors together, to create one processor that can run code from both at a higher speed than the original, and combine these into a single 16-core chip. They should buy Apple, so they'll have a hardware and operating system platform, in addition to graphic, audio, and video editing systems, in addition to the Apple music store. They should buy Adobe, so they can control all of Adobe's and Macromedia's graphic design products, which they should integrate into Apple's graphic, audio, and video software programs to create one large system that supports all formats and contains all feature sets. They should buy VMware, so they can incorporate virtualization directly into the operating system for convenience. They should buy Oracle, so they can control the database software, which they should integrate into the system. They should buy Sun Microsystems, so they can control Java. They should buy Microsoft, so they can control.Net. They should integrate Java and.Net together to create one system that has the best bits of both and is fully backwards compatible with code written for either. Once they own Microsoft, they should use the source code of Windows to make Wine work 100% correctly for all applications across all Windows versions and then integrate Wine into OS X using the Cocoa framework for interoperability. They should buy Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T, so they can control the telecommunications systems that their applications will use to connect to other applications. They should buy the United States Armed Forces so they can defend all their assets once they buy all this stuff, and get a few satellites thrown in as a bargain so they can take more pictures for Google Earth.
As if it's not already enough that Microsoft has completely destroyed the computing and software industry, now it has to hunt down and destroy just about anything and everything related to all types of products. This is just one more example.
Why did Microsoft send recruiters to software companies and steal all their good programmers? Why did Microsoft buy perfectly good software products and then "extend" them in such a way as to introduce bugs and problems, destroying those products? Why did Microsoft copy others' software products with cheap immitations and then use billions of dollars of marketing muscle to get people to buy their inferior products instead, putting many good software companies out of business? Why did they destroy the whole industry, which suffered for so long until free software began to gain a foothold? And why are they now pursuing to destroy the whole world outside of software?
Windows has always been the most secure operating system on the planet. In fact, there is no other secure software in the world. Only Windows has 100% completely unbreakable security, guaranteeing that your data is completely safe at all times, even if you plug it directly into the Internet with no firewall or any other security software or hardware at all. Yes, Windows is the most secure piece of software in the world.
*Disclaimer: This post requires flexible definitions of safe, secure, security, and unbreakable.
If only 20 of those 30 years didn't have to include Microsoft, computers would be pretty good today.
Yeah, I can't pass up a chance to say that about Microsoft, because until I switched to using a Mac, I hated computers. I believe that's because Microsoft has had so many security holes, bugs, viruses, spam, malware, and other crap over the years.
Sounds good, except for the questioning of the Holocaust part. It happened. Six million Jewish people dead. Four million other people, put to death for whatever excuse. That's what Nazism did to the world. And since we're talking about mass murder, let's not forget that Communism only killed oh, fifty million people. Or maybe it was a hundred... Ten million here, twenty million there, before you know it, the numbers get so big that you just can't believe something like that to be possible. But it happened, and there are still witnesses alive today who can tell you all about it. So instead of questioning it, perhaps you should find out more. Because if we forget the lessons of history, we're doomed to repeat them again.
Why should we be in Iraq? Because it is as plain as the U.S. president says all the time: Either we fight them over there, or we can just sit around over here, have a good time, ignore the evil that is spreading around the world, and suddenly *BOOM* you're dead. Or your best friend. Or a family member. Or the little old lady down the street. Maybe you were shopping at the mall. Or maybe you were on your way to work. Perhaps you were flying to have a vacation somewhere. Anyway, you're dead. Your life is over. You're gone forever. Why? Because some Islamic militants who don't know you, have never seen you before, and whom you've never done anything to harm, believe that it is their mission in the world to destroy and kill innocent people. They are just like The Terminator, where the character Reese describes the killer as a machine that feels no remorse, no pity. It will continue to follow you and try again and it will never quit, until you are dead. And that is exactly who our enemy is. A militant extremist Islamic death machine. You can be afraid and wait for them to blow you up, or you can be unafraid, the way Ronald Reagan was in the 1980's, when by the way, the whole world criticized him exactly as it criticizes President Bush today, but when all is said and done, Reagan put an end to the biggest part of the communist threat, which had the entire world living in fear for two thirds of a century, and unless our country completely loses its will, our current president will do the same for terrorism. Evil is powerless when the good are unafraid.
We have to be in Iraq and we must win because it is at the dead center of the region where all this terrorism is coming from. A hole the size of Iraq with a free people and an American military presence right in the middle of this empire of evil will be a huge setback to all of the terrorist organizations, and that is precisely why they are fighting tooth and nail to break our wills, to make us leave, and to show their people that we are cowards. And if we just pack up and leave, we will prove them right, and that will only give them more will, more power, more resources with which to attack and kill us. That is why we must be in Iraq.
They are an evil company. First, they create software that is so full of bugs, it can barely accomplish anything without causing the user tremendous headache, frustration, anger, depression, sexual problems, and other maladies. Then, they go to all the good software companies and steal all their good employees, so as to destroy those companies and their products. Then they buy perfectly good products and destroy them. Now, instead of helping the United States, especially at this critical time in our history when the country needs all the help it can get from the businesses that profit so enormously from the freedoms made possible here, they are going to India to help erode our economy and increase the trade deficit. This, at a time when they should, instead, concentrate their efforts on helping our great president to win the war on terror and have a victory in Iraq. What an evil company.
Instead of doing something good, like supporting the war on terror and helping to promote a victory in Iraq and other fronts, these idiot music industry executives don't give a rat's behind about anything, and would rather watch this country be destroyed from within than bear the thought of people actually being free over here. Yes, you can say that this is only music we're talking about over here, and not our overall survival against a much more significant evil from terrorists, but these evil music executives would like to see our freedoms taken away and destroyed forever one by one, starting with music, and going all the way to the destruction of the whole country. Otherwise, I'm sure that we'd see them promoting freedom and using their resources to defend the actions of our great president. God help us in the war on terror. God bless America. We need that now more than at any other time in our past. Let freedom ring. Merry Christmas folks.
I think they should put ALL sex sites on this.xxx domain. And, yes, I know that U.S. laws won't do jack for sites that are elsewhere in the world, but that is exactly why the U.S. should retain complete control of ICANN and the domain name system, without giving in to anybody. This is how to solve the problem of pr0n getting into schools, public libraries, and your child's computer: The U.S. says, ok, any sex related site has to go on the.xxx domain. All sex sites have six months to comply and move their site in its entirety to this domain. Then, a government office is set up where government officials comb through the Internet with a big comb, a la Space Balls. Any sex site that is found in a non.xxx domain will have its domain name revoked immediately and the government will immediately go after them if they're in the U.S. or will work with foreign officials to make their life really, really suck. Those who go on the.xxx domain will have no problems and they can put whatever pr0n they want on there for all ya'll's enjoyment. Public libraries, parents, businesses, and whoever else who doesn't want pr0n in their place will have a simple task of blocking.xxx domains.
Get rid of that fscking stuff... Because you should just get your own anyway.
Yeah, this is definitely a bad idea. In fact, I would go so far as to say that RICO laws or whatever they're called should be invoked, and that the shareholders, directors, officers, and employees of this BellSouth should be arrested and put in federal prison for some fifty years or so. Because you know what? As a user of the Internet, I deserve better than to have my pages load too slowly because some equinehole (that is, a hole in a donkey) in some fscking phone company figured it would line his already fat wallet for his convenience at the expense and detriment of others and without providing any kind of benefit to others whatsoever. In fact, BellSouth should go to the same place as the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft... That hot place that rhymes with Dell.
This is wonderful news. This means I will not have to boycott Linksys after all... I knew I should expect better from such a company all along! Honest!
(Duh, why does/. display my "Preview Comment" thing in this fancy shmancy box now? What was wrong with the old way, where it was simply displayed, followed by the edit field? No, now there's this box and half a screenful of Name, URL, Subject... blah blah blah... The old way was better.)
The court should order the RIAA to shut down immediately and give all of its assets and all of the assets of its shareholders and all the assets of its directors and all the assets of its officers and all the assets of its employees to this poor lady. Then, all the shareholders, directors, officers, and employees of the RIAA should be arrested and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib prison forever without a trial and with no due process. The RIAA is EVIL and it should be treated as such and abolished.
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...that we're still arguing about this nonsense. Who cares who the registrar is? The system works, as evidenced by years of operation, and quite frankly, how often do you have a problem with it? Unless you're a competitor who wants to get in on some of this action.
It also reminds me of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, where this enormous empire of billions of planets is going to fall apart, in part because scientists, engineers, and other technical people believe that everything that can be invented has already been invented, and the empire begins to wane as a certain ennui sets in.
It is always a bad thing to think that we already know everything. How do you know that someone won't invent warp drive ten years from now? Or maybe there is a force we can harness, say, like electricity, that we don't know about yet but will discover fifteen years from now. Or perhaps some kind of antigravity device will be invented that allows cars to fly. Or maybe GM will put the finishing touches on their automatic navigation system they've been testing near San Diego for 15 years, that allows cars to drive themselves with the help of a huge network of computers controlling every section of road and each car, and an array of sensors in each vehicle that prevent collisions, so that cars can go 100 mph on the freeways at a distance of inches between them, making traffic officers, traffic tickets, traffic courts, traffic jams, traffic accidents, and other traffic things a thing of the past. I'd say that all of these potential things would change a lot of things.
Who's to say that innovation is over?
... that everyone needs to concentrate on litigation and legal battles instead of making a difference by doing something constructive. Before seeing this story, I was just thinking about an article where someone said businesses in the U.S. need to stop whining about everything foreign business competition and they need to start competing with those foreign businesses instead. The trouble is that the government, meaning federal, state, county, city, and otherwise, is and has been abusing businesses for a long time with all kinds of taxes, fees, and administrative overhead that does nothing for anybody. So of course American products must cost more to cover the costs.
Heck, even if you're sick of the same old game box, you can always run Linux on the darn thing and use it for other purposes. The way I see it, these game system makers are just taking advantage of the fact that people always want to have the newest box.
I will have my legal department send you a cease and desist letter immediately, for the infringing use of the few dozen of my copyrighted words. Please have your legal department send me a similar letter for my above use of your few dozen copyrighted words.
But that's a subject for another post. In the meantime, I think it's preposterous to stop people from reporting bugs. It's freedom of speech, as far as I'm concerned, and it should also be your right to use reverse engineering tools to uncover bugs and to report those bugs to the world at large. Otherwise, there is a huge imbalance of power in complete favor of the program writer and in complete unfavor to the entire population that uses that program.
Do you know anybody who's always talking on their cell phone? Have you heard the joke that goes something like, "Did you hear Joe is going in for surgery next week? He's going in to have his cell phone disconnected from his ear." Yeah. That will become reality sooner than you think!
Sounds to me like this story is a bunch of hogwash, now that I think of it. How would you even measure the temperature in order to come to the conclusion that it was 3.6 billion degrees? There's not a thermometer on the planet that can measure something that hot.
... that a world-class company like Google would commit any kind of fraud, and in fact, I firmly believe that if anything occured which appeared to be fraud, it must have been an error on Google's part. It's probably just cheaper for them to settle with this company than to drag this through an endless lawsuit.
The other key is to name the enemy. So long as the media uses euphemisms like "sectarianism" instead of calling them what they are, terrorists, people will remain confused because it sounds like some theoretical, unimportant issue. But terrorism is the issue, and it must be fought on all fronts.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the United States will be sued next.
But you have to remember that this is all politics. According to the people who work in the ports themselves, the only thing that will change after the Dubai deal is who signs their paychecks. All they do is unload shipping containers off ships, and they don't even know what's in those containers. Customs takes care of security after these things are loaded on trucks and are on their way out of the port. This is similar to the way an airline brings you to an airport, and then Customs checks you out before you waltz past them and out of the airport. If Dubai Airlines, if there is such a thing, wanted to buy a terminal at JFK, in order to provide direct flights to the U.S. for Middle Eastern businessmen, the politicians wouldn't say a word about it. They didn't say a word about Dubai buying a third of DaimlerChrysler. It's all a matter of politics.
Back to Snort, I think it's ridiculous to raise a stink about an Israeli company buying Sourcefire, especially since it's a security tool, and guess what, the Israelis know a thing or two about security. In fact, Israeli security experts and the Israeli military have been providing training to U.S. military and government personnel, especially after 9/11. Why should that be OK but not the purchase of Sourcefire? Not only that, but if you go to Israel, you'll see Microsoft campuses, Intel campuses, and lots of other technology company campuses, all over the country. If it's safe for them to be over there, it should be safe for Sourcefire to be there, too. So there's nothing to worry about...
There should be a billion dollar prize for finding the first prime number with over a billion digits. That shouldn't be too difficult to do with a pocket calculator, pencil, and paper.
They should buy Intel and FreeScale, so they can control the microprocessor. They should integrate the two processors together, to create one processor that can run code from both at a higher speed than the original, and combine these into a single 16-core chip. They should buy Apple, so they'll have a hardware and operating system platform, in addition to graphic, audio, and video editing systems, in addition to the Apple music store. They should buy Adobe, so they can control all of Adobe's and Macromedia's graphic design products, which they should integrate into Apple's graphic, audio, and video software programs to create one large system that supports all formats and contains all feature sets. They should buy VMware, so they can incorporate virtualization directly into the operating system for convenience. They should buy Oracle, so they can control the database software, which they should integrate into the system. They should buy Sun Microsystems, so they can control Java. They should buy Microsoft, so they can control .Net. They should integrate Java and .Net together to create one system that has the best bits of both and is fully backwards compatible with code written for either. Once they own Microsoft, they should use the source code of Windows to make Wine work 100% correctly for all applications across all Windows versions and then integrate Wine into OS X using the Cocoa framework for interoperability. They should buy Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T, so they can control the telecommunications systems that their applications will use to connect to other applications. They should buy the United States Armed Forces so they can defend all their assets once they buy all this stuff, and get a few satellites thrown in as a bargain so they can take more pictures for Google Earth.
Why did Microsoft send recruiters to software companies and steal all their good programmers? Why did Microsoft buy perfectly good software products and then "extend" them in such a way as to introduce bugs and problems, destroying those products? Why did Microsoft copy others' software products with cheap immitations and then use billions of dollars of marketing muscle to get people to buy their inferior products instead, putting many good software companies out of business? Why did they destroy the whole industry, which suffered for so long until free software began to gain a foothold? And why are they now pursuing to destroy the whole world outside of software?
I'm glad I switched to the Mac.
*Disclaimer: This post requires flexible definitions of safe, secure, security, and unbreakable.
Yeah, I can't pass up a chance to say that about Microsoft, because until I switched to using a Mac, I hated computers. I believe that's because Microsoft has had so many security holes, bugs, viruses, spam, malware, and other crap over the years.
Sounds good, except for the questioning of the Holocaust part. It happened. Six million Jewish people dead. Four million other people, put to death for whatever excuse. That's what Nazism did to the world. And since we're talking about mass murder, let's not forget that Communism only killed oh, fifty million people. Or maybe it was a hundred... Ten million here, twenty million there, before you know it, the numbers get so big that you just can't believe something like that to be possible. But it happened, and there are still witnesses alive today who can tell you all about it. So instead of questioning it, perhaps you should find out more. Because if we forget the lessons of history, we're doomed to repeat them again.
Why should we be in Iraq? Because it is as plain as the U.S. president says all the time: Either we fight them over there, or we can just sit around over here, have a good time, ignore the evil that is spreading around the world, and suddenly *BOOM* you're dead. Or your best friend. Or a family member. Or the little old lady down the street. Maybe you were shopping at the mall. Or maybe you were on your way to work. Perhaps you were flying to have a vacation somewhere. Anyway, you're dead. Your life is over. You're gone forever. Why? Because some Islamic militants who don't know you, have never seen you before, and whom you've never done anything to harm, believe that it is their mission in the world to destroy and kill innocent people. They are just like The Terminator, where the character Reese describes the killer as a machine that feels no remorse, no pity. It will continue to follow you and try again and it will never quit, until you are dead. And that is exactly who our enemy is. A militant extremist Islamic death machine. You can be afraid and wait for them to blow you up, or you can be unafraid, the way Ronald Reagan was in the 1980's, when by the way, the whole world criticized him exactly as it criticizes President Bush today, but when all is said and done, Reagan put an end to the biggest part of the communist threat, which had the entire world living in fear for two thirds of a century, and unless our country completely loses its will, our current president will do the same for terrorism. Evil is powerless when the good are unafraid.
We have to be in Iraq and we must win because it is at the dead center of the region where all this terrorism is coming from. A hole the size of Iraq with a free people and an American military presence right in the middle of this empire of evil will be a huge setback to all of the terrorist organizations, and that is precisely why they are fighting tooth and nail to break our wills, to make us leave, and to show their people that we are cowards. And if we just pack up and leave, we will prove them right, and that will only give them more will, more power, more resources with which to attack and kill us. That is why we must be in Iraq.
They are an evil company. First, they create software that is so full of bugs, it can barely accomplish anything without causing the user tremendous headache, frustration, anger, depression, sexual problems, and other maladies. Then, they go to all the good software companies and steal all their good employees, so as to destroy those companies and their products. Then they buy perfectly good products and destroy them. Now, instead of helping the United States, especially at this critical time in our history when the country needs all the help it can get from the businesses that profit so enormously from the freedoms made possible here, they are going to India to help erode our economy and increase the trade deficit. This, at a time when they should, instead, concentrate their efforts on helping our great president to win the war on terror and have a victory in Iraq. What an evil company.
Instead of doing something good, like supporting the war on terror and helping to promote a victory in Iraq and other fronts, these idiot music industry executives don't give a rat's behind about anything, and would rather watch this country be destroyed from within than bear the thought of people actually being free over here. Yes, you can say that this is only music we're talking about over here, and not our overall survival against a much more significant evil from terrorists, but these evil music executives would like to see our freedoms taken away and destroyed forever one by one, starting with music, and going all the way to the destruction of the whole country. Otherwise, I'm sure that we'd see them promoting freedom and using their resources to defend the actions of our great president. God help us in the war on terror. God bless America. We need that now more than at any other time in our past. Let freedom ring. Merry Christmas folks.
Get rid of that fscking stuff... Because you should just get your own anyway.
Yeah, this is definitely a bad idea. In fact, I would go so far as to say that RICO laws or whatever they're called should be invoked, and that the shareholders, directors, officers, and employees of this BellSouth should be arrested and put in federal prison for some fifty years or so. Because you know what? As a user of the Internet, I deserve better than to have my pages load too slowly because some equinehole (that is, a hole in a donkey) in some fscking phone company figured it would line his already fat wallet for his convenience at the expense and detriment of others and without providing any kind of benefit to others whatsoever. In fact, BellSouth should go to the same place as the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft... That hot place that rhymes with Dell.
(Duh, why does /. display my "Preview Comment" thing in this fancy shmancy box now? What was wrong with the old way, where it was simply displayed, followed by the edit field? No, now there's this box and half a screenful of Name, URL, Subject... blah blah blah... The old way was better.)
The court should order the RIAA to shut down immediately and give all of its assets and all of the assets of its shareholders and all the assets of its directors and all the assets of its officers and all the assets of its employees to this poor lady. Then, all the shareholders, directors, officers, and employees of the RIAA should be arrested and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib prison forever without a trial and with no due process. The RIAA is EVIL and it should be treated as such and abolished.