to hire Lawyers to review the patents for them that have been violated. I mean why should Microsoft employees do it, if they are too busy putting spyware and backdoors into the next Vista service pack and finding a new way to shut out Vista pirates as well as invalidate legal copies of Vista so they can have false positives to force the sale of more Vista licenses?
Microsoft gave us a number, 235, that means somebody either counted them or pulled them out of their rear-end in some FUD attack against Linux and Open Source? If the former, then just let the lawyers read the list of 235 and give us a legal summary of what is in violation?
when a domain expires, he squats on it and pays to register it in his name or his company's name. Then he puts up a dummy web site with advertising on it that looks like original content that pays him for click throughs so when someone surfs to an expired domain name, they think it is the original web page and start clicking links.
Then when someone has a company of the same name, or sees that their domain expired and they didn't renew it in time, he will offer to sell it to them for a few thousand dollars. If he needs money he just auctions off some domain names on eBay, and when those expire he buys them back cheaper and tries to sell it again.
This looks like it is more profitable than trading stocks. Just start buying off expired domain names for like $35 for a full year with a domain parking service that allows you to place advertising on it. Then sell the domain for thousands to some company that wants it that badly.
I think this guy and guys like him are the reason why we can't get six letter domain names anymore and have to opt for twelve or twenty letter domain names.
my real name is Shackelford, Rusty Shackelford. I happen to share the same name and have the same web browsing habits of over 15 million other people like reading Slashdot.
I doubt Microsoft can figure out my real name, if I keep entering bogus online profiles like Rusty Shackelford and I happen to visit the same technology news sites as 15 million other people.
On the Internet nobody knows if you really are a dog.
because they already said what they said on the air. What this is would be punishment for making racist or bigoted remarks like Don Imus did and got busted for and so many others.
This is a new trend, if a DJ or announcer or talk show host on the radio says something racist or bigoted they will get punished for it now.
Free Speech does not give you the right to violate station policy, nor does it give you the right to avoid social norms or insult groups of people with. It is about time that people are held accountable for what they say, instead of getting away with murder.
In fact to compete with the iPhone the Nokia N80ie at almost half the price offers more freedom and is not crippled as the iPhone is crippled and I'll bet the Fone+ is criplled as well. Read the Nokia web site for features on the phone.
#1 Fake email from Apple executives that product will be delayed. #2 When the panic happens buy Apple stock at a low price. #3 After Apple figures out the email was a hoax, sends out new email saying the schedule has not changed. Apple stock returns to normal. #4 Sell Apple stock and reap in big profits.
I'll be the fake email was sent via some Botnet that a Uber Hacker group had controlled to pull off a daytrading scam.
Who says the other OS has to be Windows, though? If they are using Virtual PC or some other virtual machine, just stick on a copy of Linux and run Windows and Linux at the same time. Top screen for Windows, bottom screen for Linux.
Ah heck, just get a system that uses a virtual machine and load two OSes on that virtual machine and assign one monitor to one virtual machine and another monitor to the second virtual machine.
I wonder if you can use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse for one machine and stick in a USB keyboard and an USB mouse for the second machine.
I know of people who had their serial number stolen by a virus or trojan and after they reformatted and reinstalled the system, found out that the serial number had been spread on the Internet and blacklisted and they were forced to buy a new copy of XP.
A friend of mine had that happen at his college dorm. Colleges are well known for a high level of infections on their systems, a lot of botnets use college networks to send spam because they are so easy to infect because the administrators have relaxed network settings that give easy access for the students on open wireless networks, and it is so easy to get into the network and start infecting systems. Anyway after a virus infection he tried getting rid of for months, he decided to reformat his system, only to find out that his copy of XP, despite being legal with the hologram and all, was blacklisted and he had to buy a new copy of XP. Anyway he had two systems, and after that one of them runs Unbuntu Linux instead of XP and he uses it as a firewall for his XP system that he had to buy a new copy of XP for.
But Biz201 tells you that you need to take care of your shareholders and give them a return on their investments. If not, they will sell their stocks causing your company stock to be less in value. How can you do that if you have a loss?
because we had a the Timex Sinclair 1000 with the 16K RAM cartridge and had major issues with it prior to buying a replacement for it.
The C64's only flaw was that slow floppy drive. But it had a real keyboard, sprites, 3 channel music, and seemed to be a better quality than what Timex Sinclair offered. We later upgraded to the Commodore 128 which ran CP/M and had 128 mode with a better basic and faster 1571 drive.
I almost bought a Macintosh 512K, but bought an Amiga 1000 512K instead at half the price. After that it was PC clones. But I did buy some old Macs from eBay and later an iMac 350Mhz G3 Mac refubrished from the Internet. I still mostly use PC Clones now but I have the old Macs, an Amiga 500, and sold the C64 and C128 at a garage sale.
The thing I liked about the C64 was that games played smoother on it thanks to the custom chips the C64 used. We almost bought an Atari 400 but we got burned by the Atari 2600 promising us a keyboard to turn it into a computer and making better graphics for it as well.
"'We are not going to change our strategy because of one lousy quarter.'"
If you have a lousy quarter, it means you might have a lousy strategy and that you failed to learn from business management 101 that if you take a loss, you have to change the strategy so next quarter you won't take a loss.
In other words, if you take a loss, something is wrong. It is like having a 104 degree Fahrenheit temperature, and then doing nothing about it. Seriously, WTF?
Oh I am AMD, I have a 104 fever, so I'll do nothing about it, oh gosh, now its 105, still doing nothing maybe it will go away next quarter.
the system. I followed directions like that S3 article, and what I get is a Windows that locks up and won't wake up. I don't know if it is a hardware, OS, or software issue. I usually get the login screen and then the mouse cursor won't move and the keyboard no longer works and beeps at me for each key I press.
My laptop works that way and so does my desktop. It is very annoying and in order to avoid the lockups I have to turn power saving off and then the system doesn't lock up anymore.
that it had no value to business and that they wouldn't develop their own web browser. Then they saw how companies started to make money on the Internet and how popular Netscape had become, and how it posed a threat to their business model. So they developed Internet Explorer and Front Page as a web browser and a web page creator.
Microsoft laughs at the iPhone now, but how long before Microsoft has the zPhone (Zune Phone) to complete with it?
The number of food allergies increased after we had genetic engineering of food, think what it will increase to after we allow cloned meat.
I already have some bad food allergies, I don't need any more. Eating meat used to be a lot safer than eating genetically engineered fruit and vegetables for me, but now with cloned meat I might have allergies to cloned meat, after you genetically engineer food and clone meat, we people with food allergies won't have anything left to eat. What is there to eat that isn't genetically engineered or cloned these days, rocks, dirt, water, seaweed? They're killing me, with science!
Yeah turns out there is DRM in the DNA that we haven't figured out how to get around yet. Trying to make illegal copies of DRM protected DNA result in inferior copies that age faster and die sooner and get sicker than the originals. This means that there was a designer of the DNA that put in some sort of copy protection, because he/she didn't want competition in creating life.
we have had online encyclopedias, online open source books, it is only a matter of time before we get online videos that educate instead of appeal to the lower common denominator.
In the USA we have an education problem, people dropping out of high school or college or never going to college. If professors and experts want to make educational videos to stimulate the mind, go right ahead. I can enjoy that sort of video. It would be like taking a Telecourse for a college.
You can always print out the return and postal mail it instead of electronically filing it. All fees for doing your taxes are deductible for the next year if you save your receipts and you opt for the line item deductions.
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.
The order set into motion the exclusion from certain areas, and the evacuation and mass incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens.
These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children, were incarcerated for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis, in bleak, remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.
They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs; in some cases family members were separated and put into different camps. President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities "concentration camps."
Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered. Several were killed by military guards posted for allegedly resisting orders.
At the time, Executive Order 9066 was justified as a "military necessity" to protect against domestic espionage and sabotage. However, it was later documented that "our government had in its possession proof that not one Japanese American, citizen or not, had engaged in espionage, not one had committed any act of sabotage." (Michi Weglyn, 1976).
Rather, the causes for this unprecedented action in American history, according to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, "were motivated largely by racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."
Almost 50 years later, through the efforts of leaders and advocates of the Japanese American community, Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Popularly known as the Japanese American Redress Bill, this act acknowledged that "a grave injustice was done" and mandated Congress to pay each victim of internment $20,000 in reparations.
The reparations were sent with a signed apology from the President of the United States on behalf of the American people. The period for reparations ended in August of 1998.
Despite this redress, the mental and physical health impacts of the trauma of the internment experience continue to affect tens of thousands of Japanese Americans. Health studies have shown a 2 times greater incidence of heart disease and premature death among former internees, compared to noninterned Japanese Americans.
and prevented it from being passed in the first place. Sure Bush didn't try to remove it either.
Just that people are quick to blame Bush for the actions of the RIAA and MPAA but forgot on who's watch the bill was passed.
Frankly there isn't much difference between the Republicans and Democrats, neither one of them does enough for the common people. Just that Democrats make empty promises to the common people and break them for over the past thirty years or so and keep doing it.
I just hope that the Reform or Green party gets more of their people into Congress to help even out the score.
I guess that also means that Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton did not support the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and it was never passed in the first place? It is what gives the RIAA and MPAA control over the consumer's rights and freedoms in the first place and basically takes away "fair use" and other clauses. That there was never any lobbyist money from the RIAA and the MPAA to the Clinton campaign and most of Congress to pass such a law?
I guess we US Citizens have short memories because we can tend to forget the injustices that the Democrats did against the US people? Their corruption does not count.
Now there are ties to the RIAA again, and all one has to do is cite Wikipedia allowing us to completely ignore or rewrite history in favor of the Democrats.
I'll bet people even forgot when Tipper Gore was censoring music lyrics and forced warning labels on CDs and video games, and doing so had the prices of them raised up to cover the cost of the rating system. Full support of the Democrats on that one as well.
Anyway I hope Barack Obama gets the nomination instead of Hillary Clinton, as I trust him a whole lot more than I trust her, because Obama hasn't stabbed the US in the back like Clinton has.
Don't forget FDR who put Japanese-Americans into concentration camps without a trial and without habeaus corpus and had such poor conditions at those camps that many died as a result. FDR also had anti-war protesters arrested without habeaus corpus as well as arresting anyone who tried to sympathize with Japan or Germany into jail without habeaus corpus as well.
I'd say the concentration camps are worse than the prisons that Abraham Lincoln used, but only because I know Japanese-American families who survived to tell how horrible the concentration camps really were. Those concentration camps make Gitmo look like Club Med.
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to hire Lawyers to review the patents for them that have been violated. I mean why should Microsoft employees do it, if they are too busy putting spyware and backdoors into the next Vista service pack and finding a new way to shut out Vista pirates as well as invalidate legal copies of Vista so they can have false positives to force the sale of more Vista licenses?
Microsoft gave us a number, 235, that means somebody either counted them or pulled them out of their rear-end in some FUD attack against Linux and Open Source? If the former, then just let the lawyers read the list of 235 and give us a legal summary of what is in violation?
when a domain expires, he squats on it and pays to register it in his name or his company's name. Then he puts up a dummy web site with advertising on it that looks like original content that pays him for click throughs so when someone surfs to an expired domain name, they think it is the original web page and start clicking links.
Then when someone has a company of the same name, or sees that their domain expired and they didn't renew it in time, he will offer to sell it to them for a few thousand dollars. If he needs money he just auctions off some domain names on eBay, and when those expire he buys them back cheaper and tries to sell it again.
This looks like it is more profitable than trading stocks. Just start buying off expired domain names for like $35 for a full year with a domain parking service that allows you to place advertising on it. Then sell the domain for thousands to some company that wants it that badly.
I think this guy and guys like him are the reason why we can't get six letter domain names anymore and have to opt for twelve or twenty letter domain names.
my real name is Shackelford, Rusty Shackelford. I happen to share the same name and have the same web browsing habits of over 15 million other people like reading Slashdot.
I doubt Microsoft can figure out my real name, if I keep entering bogus online profiles like Rusty Shackelford and I happen to visit the same technology news sites as 15 million other people.
On the Internet nobody knows if you really are a dog.
because they already said what they said on the air. What this is would be punishment for making racist or bigoted remarks like Don Imus did and got busted for and so many others.
This is a new trend, if a DJ or announcer or talk show host on the radio says something racist or bigoted they will get punished for it now.
Free Speech does not give you the right to violate station policy, nor does it give you the right to avoid social norms or insult groups of people with. It is about time that people are held accountable for what they say, instead of getting away with murder.
Belgian Waffles, Belgian Chocolate, so why not just call them Belgian Fries? What do they call them in Flemish?
The Symbian OS based Nokia series already has such features.
In fact to compete with the iPhone the Nokia N80ie at almost half the price offers more freedom and is not crippled as the iPhone is crippled and I'll bet the Fone+ is criplled as well. Read the Nokia web site for features on the phone.
#1 Fake email from Apple executives that product will be delayed.
#2 When the panic happens buy Apple stock at a low price.
#3 After Apple figures out the email was a hoax, sends out new email saying the schedule has not changed. Apple stock returns to normal.
#4 Sell Apple stock and reap in big profits.
I'll be the fake email was sent via some Botnet that a Uber Hacker group had controlled to pull off a daytrading scam.
"Hi, my name is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce the 'Microsoft IP violations' in Linux as bullshit!"
you can run two operating systems at once.
Who says the other OS has to be Windows, though? If they are using Virtual PC or some other virtual machine, just stick on a copy of Linux and run Windows and Linux at the same time. Top screen for Windows, bottom screen for Linux.
Ah heck, just get a system that uses a virtual machine and load two OSes on that virtual machine and assign one monitor to one virtual machine and another monitor to the second virtual machine.
I wonder if you can use a PS/2 keyboard and mouse for one machine and stick in a USB keyboard and an USB mouse for the second machine.
Will we call them French Fries again?
Will France now help out in the Iraq War to end it?
I know of people who had their serial number stolen by a virus or trojan and after they reformatted and reinstalled the system, found out that the serial number had been spread on the Internet and blacklisted and they were forced to buy a new copy of XP.
A friend of mine had that happen at his college dorm. Colleges are well known for a high level of infections on their systems, a lot of botnets use college networks to send spam because they are so easy to infect because the administrators have relaxed network settings that give easy access for the students on open wireless networks, and it is so easy to get into the network and start infecting systems. Anyway after a virus infection he tried getting rid of for months, he decided to reformat his system, only to find out that his copy of XP, despite being legal with the hologram and all, was blacklisted and he had to buy a new copy of XP. Anyway he had two systems, and after that one of them runs Unbuntu Linux instead of XP and he uses it as a firewall for his XP system that he had to buy a new copy of XP for.
But Biz201 tells you that you need to take care of your shareholders and give them a return on their investments. If not, they will sell their stocks causing your company stock to be less in value. How can you do that if you have a loss?
because we had a the Timex Sinclair 1000 with the 16K RAM cartridge and had major issues with it prior to buying a replacement for it.
The C64's only flaw was that slow floppy drive. But it had a real keyboard, sprites, 3 channel music, and seemed to be a better quality than what Timex Sinclair offered. We later upgraded to the Commodore 128 which ran CP/M and had 128 mode with a better basic and faster 1571 drive.
I almost bought a Macintosh 512K, but bought an Amiga 1000 512K instead at half the price. After that it was PC clones. But I did buy some old Macs from eBay and later an iMac 350Mhz G3 Mac refubrished from the Internet. I still mostly use PC Clones now but I have the old Macs, an Amiga 500, and sold the C64 and C128 at a garage sale.
The thing I liked about the C64 was that games played smoother on it thanks to the custom chips the C64 used. We almost bought an Atari 400 but we got burned by the Atari 2600 promising us a keyboard to turn it into a computer and making better graphics for it as well.
"'We are not going to change our strategy because of one lousy quarter.'"
If you have a lousy quarter, it means you might have a lousy strategy and that you failed to learn from business management 101 that if you take a loss, you have to change the strategy so next quarter you won't take a loss.
In other words, if you take a loss, something is wrong. It is like having a 104 degree Fahrenheit temperature, and then doing nothing about it. Seriously, WTF?
Oh I am AMD, I have a 104 fever, so I'll do nothing about it, oh gosh, now its 105, still doing nothing maybe it will go away next quarter.
the system. I followed directions like that S3 article, and what I get is a Windows that locks up and won't wake up. I don't know if it is a hardware, OS, or software issue. I usually get the login screen and then the mouse cursor won't move and the keyboard no longer works and beeps at me for each key I press.
My laptop works that way and so does my desktop. It is very annoying and in order to avoid the lockups I have to turn power saving off and then the system doesn't lock up anymore.
that it had no value to business and that they wouldn't develop their own web browser. Then they saw how companies started to make money on the Internet and how popular Netscape had become, and how it posed a threat to their business model. So they developed Internet Explorer and Front Page as a web browser and a web page creator.
Microsoft laughs at the iPhone now, but how long before Microsoft has the zPhone (Zune Phone) to complete with it?
The number of food allergies increased after we had genetic engineering of food, think what it will increase to after we allow cloned meat.
I already have some bad food allergies, I don't need any more. Eating meat used to be a lot safer than eating genetically engineered fruit and vegetables for me, but now with cloned meat I might have allergies to cloned meat, after you genetically engineer food and clone meat, we people with food allergies won't have anything left to eat. What is there to eat that isn't genetically engineered or cloned these days, rocks, dirt, water, seaweed? They're killing me, with science!
Yeah turns out there is DRM in the DNA that we haven't figured out how to get around yet. Trying to make illegal copies of DRM protected DNA result in inferior copies that age faster and die sooner and get sicker than the originals. This means that there was a designer of the DNA that put in some sort of copy protection, because he/she didn't want competition in creating life.
we have had online encyclopedias, online open source books, it is only a matter of time before we get online videos that educate instead of appeal to the lower common denominator.
In the USA we have an education problem, people dropping out of high school or college or never going to college. If professors and experts want to make educational videos to stimulate the mind, go right ahead. I can enjoy that sort of video. It would be like taking a Telecourse for a college.
and nobody came?
All we are saying, is give HTML 5.0 a chance!
With respects to John Lennon.
You can always print out the return and postal mail it instead of electronically filing it. All fees for doing your taxes are deductible for the next year if you save your receipts and you opt for the line item deductions.
PBS says otherwise read about the history
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which permitted the military to circumvent the constitutional safeguards of American citizens in the name of national defense.
The order set into motion the exclusion from certain areas, and the evacuation and mass incarceration of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens.
These Japanese Americans, half of whom were children, were incarcerated for up to 4 years, without due process of law or any factual basis, in bleak, remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.
They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs; in some cases family members were separated and put into different camps. President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities "concentration camps."
Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered. Several were killed by military guards posted for allegedly resisting orders.
At the time, Executive Order 9066 was justified as a "military necessity" to protect against domestic espionage and sabotage. However, it was later documented that "our government had in its possession proof that not one Japanese American, citizen or not, had engaged in espionage, not one had committed any act of sabotage." (Michi Weglyn, 1976).
Rather, the causes for this unprecedented action in American history, according to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, "were motivated largely by racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."
Almost 50 years later, through the efforts of leaders and advocates of the Japanese American community, Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Popularly known as the Japanese American Redress Bill, this act acknowledged that "a grave injustice was done" and mandated Congress to pay each victim of internment $20,000 in reparations.
The reparations were sent with a signed apology from the President of the United States on behalf of the American people. The period for reparations ended in August of 1998.
Despite this redress, the mental and physical health impacts of the trauma of the internment experience continue to affect tens of thousands of Japanese Americans. Health studies have shown a 2 times greater incidence of heart disease and premature death among former internees, compared to noninterned Japanese Americans.
and prevented it from being passed in the first place. Sure Bush didn't try to remove it either.
Just that people are quick to blame Bush for the actions of the RIAA and MPAA but forgot on who's watch the bill was passed.
Frankly there isn't much difference between the Republicans and Democrats, neither one of them does enough for the common people. Just that Democrats make empty promises to the common people and break them for over the past thirty years or so and keep doing it.
I just hope that the Reform or Green party gets more of their people into Congress to help even out the score.
I guess that also means that Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton did not support the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and it was never passed in the first place? It is what gives the RIAA and MPAA control over the consumer's rights and freedoms in the first place and basically takes away "fair use" and other clauses. That there was never any lobbyist money from the RIAA and the MPAA to the Clinton campaign and most of Congress to pass such a law?
I guess we US Citizens have short memories because we can tend to forget the injustices that the Democrats did against the US people? Their corruption does not count.
Now there are ties to the RIAA again, and all one has to do is cite Wikipedia allowing us to completely ignore or rewrite history in favor of the Democrats.
I'll bet people even forgot when Tipper Gore was censoring music lyrics and forced warning labels on CDs and video games, and doing so had the prices of them raised up to cover the cost of the rating system. Full support of the Democrats on that one as well.
Anyway I hope Barack Obama gets the nomination instead of Hillary Clinton, as I trust him a whole lot more than I trust her, because Obama hasn't stabbed the US in the back like Clinton has.
Don't forget FDR who put Japanese-Americans into concentration camps without a trial and without habeaus corpus and had such poor conditions at those camps that many died as a result. FDR also had anti-war protesters arrested without habeaus corpus as well as arresting anyone who tried to sympathize with Japan or Germany into jail without habeaus corpus as well.
I'd say the concentration camps are worse than the prisons that Abraham Lincoln used, but only because I know Japanese-American families who survived to tell how horrible the concentration camps really were. Those concentration camps make Gitmo look like Club Med.