Mr. Kuhn brings up a very good point. He notes, "We are grateful for SCO's tactical error of attacking one of the deepest pockets on earth, IBM, who has the checkbook needed to efficiently fight such a nuisance lawsuit." Why was SCO so foolish? Was it just raw arrogance, a chance at a single payout, good press/bad press/any press?
From the last 7,000 messages my server's handled, a grep of the maillog turns up exactly zero occurrances of 'optinbig'. So, are these guys really that big, or are they really playing by the [albeit stupid and ineffective] rules? Besides, who honestly gets much Spam originating from US sources anymore...?
If the answer to the question was, "I keep my hair long because it's my strength. My dog, which happens to be Jesus, told me to do that until the apocalypse, which I will bring about in a firey cloud above UT."
Now see, that question could have been very important!
Will this thing send me the phone number of the jack ass in front of me so I can call him and get him out of the fast lane? Better yet, how about the number of hottie in the convertable next to me?...hey, I'm beginning to like this thing.
Um, "Richard lied to investigators by claiming he sold the domain name to a Virginia company..."
I'm not sure I'd rely on that statement.
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Portsmouth, VA 23708
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Domain Name: MACOMBSHERIFF.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Stanley, Michael (36687838P) fountainhead_463@hotmail.com
Fountainhead Media
19950 Denby
Portsmouth, VA 23708
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I actually prefer OO for envelopes. I can't even count the number of times that I had to re-type an address when something went wrong and the MS label window had already gone away and taken the data with it. Setting up an envelope as a document makes much more sense to me.
The release from SCO notes, "SCO's intellectual property is being found in Linux."
How should that be read? Does that mean that, "It is being worked on, and it is currently being found..." Which would explain the lack of evidence shown to date.
Or is it more of an anomaly, like "Really good prizes are being found in Cracker Jack boxes" ?
Oh my, have I dated myself by mentioning Cracker Jacks?
Ahh yes. My first was the Atari 800. A Christmas gift from mom & dad to the whole family, in 1982(?). My first programs were written in BASIC, running from cartridge of course, and stored on that external 640K 5.25" drive, slightly smaller than a bread box. A whopping 48K of memory, who could ever want more? Soon came that 300bps modem and the uber cool Atari printer with the funky spinning barrel o' letters.
Funny, how long after that did it take them to put joystick (~ usb?) ports back on the front of the machines...
The story notes, "IBM scored a surprise legal victory in that court case when a judge ruled on Friday in favour of IBM in SCO's trade-secret violation lawsuit against the computing giant..."
I'm certainly no legal expert, but was this really that much of a surprise? From most legal info I've read about the case, it seem fairly accepted that SCO is really just fishing.
I stopped reading the article after choking on this quote: "Almost 97 percent of the programs used in Vietnam have been illegally copied, costing Microsoft an estimated $40 million to $50 million a year."
I doubt many, if any, of these people would pay such a large portion of their annual income for this software. Microsoft would never get this money, they should at least appreciate the exposure. After all, Microsoft is 90% marketing and 10% functionality...
Ahh, random statistics make me feel so impotent... er, um make that important!
I'm the IT Manager of a fairly large public library, and I've seen every aspect of the filter battle. For several years we've offered an optional filter, which the user has the ability to turn on or off for their browsing. We only block two "categories" of content: sexually explicit and extreme/obscene
We actually turn down about $50K of funding due to CIPA, but in the past 3 years I can count on one hand the number of complaints we've had about the filter. We run it from a proxy server and there's no quick trick for someone to circumvent it.
The suggestion of publishing the logs of what gets filtered. Bad idea! You wouldn't believe what people will surf for. We process about 2GB of patron Inet traffic a day, and have between 100-500 blocks on average. Nearly all of them very legitimate.
I hate big brother dangling the carrot as much as the next guy, but blameing the filter isn't the right approach.
I haven't seen mentioned the fact that manufacturers often end up upgrading the customer in the event that a drive fails. If you've got a 6 GB drive under a 3 yr warranty and it fails. You can pretty much bet you're going to receive at least a 20GB as a replacement. That's gotta have cost implications for the manufacturer.
Hmmm... Good point. From this AOL suit back in 2000 (from a different firm), I notice much more detail in the threat, including legal references. In particular, it seems strange that a reputable firm would simply use "Re:AOL" as the subject of the corresponence.
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Mr. Kuhn brings up a very good point. He notes, "We are grateful for SCO's tactical error of attacking one of the deepest pockets on earth, IBM, who has the checkbook needed to efficiently fight such a nuisance lawsuit."
Why was SCO so foolish? Was it just raw arrogance, a chance at a single payout, good press/bad press/any press?
On 24, they had to shorten the incubation period because they only have 24 episodes to work with...
If it took up 14 episodes (like the original virus incubation period in the story line) the season would be over before anyone showed symptoms.
Just taking the fun out of the logic.
From the last 7,000 messages my server's handled, a grep of the maillog turns up exactly zero occurrances of 'optinbig'.
So, are these guys really that big, or are they really playing by the [albeit stupid and ineffective] rules?
Besides, who honestly gets much Spam originating from US sources anymore...?
If the answer to the question was, "I keep my hair long because it's my strength. My dog, which happens to be Jesus, told me to do that until the apocalypse, which I will bring about in a firey cloud above UT."
Now see, that question could have been very important!
Will this thing send me the phone number of the jack ass in front of me so I can call him and get him out of the fast lane? ...hey, I'm beginning to like this thing.
Better yet, how about the number of hottie in the convertable next to me?
Um, "Richard lied to investigators by claiming he sold the domain name to a Virginia company..."
I'm not sure I'd rely on that statement.
Registrant:
Fountainhead Media (MACOMBSHERIFF-DOM)
19950 Denby
Portsmouth, VA 23708
US
Domain Name: MACOMBSHERIFF.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Stanley, Michael (36687838P) fountainhead_463@hotmail.com
Fountainhead Media
19950 Denby
Portsmouth, VA 23708
US
999-999-9999
Record expires on 03-Feb-2005.
Record created on 03-Feb-2000.
Database last updated on 5-Mar-2004 15:27:54 EST.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS43.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.225.173
NS44.WORLDNIC.COM 216.168.225.174
The MPAA will surely try to keep you from wearing it into a movie theater.
for the postion of Iraqi Info Minister?
Does anyone see anything oxymoronic about the people that gave us the Patriot Act talking about privacy?
I actually prefer OO for envelopes. I can't even count the number of times that I had to re-type an address when something went wrong and the MS label window had already gone away and taken the data with it. Setting up an envelope as a document makes much more sense to me.
Maybe they could have the tax payers flip the bill for a little ski trip!
With Microsoft's record for security, this should help assure free [Disney] movies available to anyone who wants them.
The release from SCO notes, "SCO's intellectual property is being found in Linux."
How should that be read? Does that mean that, "It is being worked on, and it is currently being found..." Which would explain the lack of evidence shown to date.
Or is it more of an anomaly, like "Really good prizes are being found in Cracker Jack boxes" ?
Oh my, have I dated myself by mentioning Cracker Jacks?
Ahh yes. My first was the Atari 800. A Christmas gift from mom & dad to the whole family, in 1982(?). My first programs were written in BASIC, running from cartridge of course, and stored on that external 640K 5.25" drive, slightly smaller than a bread box.
A whopping 48K of memory, who could ever want more?
Soon came that 300bps modem and the uber cool Atari printer with the funky spinning barrel o' letters.
Funny, how long after that did it take them to put joystick (~ usb?) ports back on the front of the machines...
The story notes, "IBM scored a surprise legal victory in that court case when a judge ruled on Friday in favour of IBM in SCO's trade-secret violation lawsuit against the computing giant..."
I'm certainly no legal expert, but was this really that much of a surprise? From most legal info I've read about the case, it seem fairly accepted that SCO is really just fishing.
I stopped reading the article after choking on this quote:
"Almost 97 percent of the programs used in Vietnam have been illegally copied, costing Microsoft an estimated $40 million to $50 million a year."
I doubt many, if any, of these people would pay such a large portion of their annual income for this software. Microsoft would never get this money, they should at least appreciate the exposure. After all, Microsoft is 90% marketing and 10% functionality...
Ahh, random statistics make me feel so impotent... er, um make that important!
Downloading mousepox ...er, um 4.9 right now!
The article notes, "He says his work is necessary to explore what bioterrorists might do."
If research was stopped everytime someone asked "why?", there wouldn't be much done at all.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Jordan Hubbard leave FreeBSD for a position at Apple on the OS X team?
But, it's not a tax!
Ok, maybe just a little one, I forgot the FCC can do that sometimes.
We actually turn down about $50K of funding due to CIPA, but in the past 3 years I can count on one hand the number of complaints we've had about the filter. We run it from a proxy server and there's no quick trick for someone to circumvent it.
The suggestion of publishing the logs of what gets filtered. Bad idea! You wouldn't believe what people will surf for. We process about 2GB of patron Inet traffic a day, and have between 100-500 blocks on average. Nearly all of them very legitimate.
I hate big brother dangling the carrot as much as the next guy, but blameing the filter isn't the right approach.
As a typical knee jerk reaction to such findings, obviously organizations such as the EPA need to seek laws to outlaw these wildfires!
I haven't seen mentioned the fact that manufacturers often end up upgrading the customer in the event that a drive fails. If you've got a 6 GB drive under a 3 yr warranty and it fails. You can pretty much bet you're going to receive at least a 20GB as a replacement.
That's gotta have cost implications for the manufacturer.
Maybe they should consider suing themselves on behalf of FOX Broadcasting.
Hmmm... Good point.
From this AOL suit back in 2000 (from a different firm), I notice much more detail in the threat, including legal references. In particular, it seems strange that a reputable firm would simply use "Re:AOL" as the subject of the corresponence.