Sigh, the two oldes systems at my (current) company (mainframes actually) are called Yoda and Vega. Then we moved to very arbitrary names like xyzapp201 (xyz being company name), and xyzVTapp201 for virtual systems. of course no one could tell you what exactly application was on app201. Now they're a little better about naming them after the system (xyzSQL05 is a sql server boxen), but - and get this - you only get 3 characters for your app name, because - according to our server guys - the maximum length of a host name is *8* characters.... Err... wha? And believe it or not, this apparently is being caused by the linux (RH) servers we're starting to buy. I have long since given up on arguing with them on it.
I've worked on enterprise asset management systems in a number of different industries including electrical utilities, natural gas pipelines, and military. In almost every company they've had some variant of an "abandoned in place" asset status. In cases like power plants, trying to remove a single cable from a series of cable trays or raceways is rarely, if ever, worth the effort and risk. Some cable trays have dozens of cables (and I'm not talking cat5) in them, sometimes half of which are "dead" but removing those from the middle of a stack of hot cables in a working power plant doesn't have much of an ROI.
Google around and you will find that while CFLs do contain a small amount of Mercury in them it is far, far less than would be released into the public (water, air) by current power plants if they were running an incandescent bulb(s) for the equivalent life span. Try a few sites like snopes and wikipedia have good starting info.
Really this might not be too bad for what you say - I don't know how many times I look for something (say Taco Bell) on Google Maps and they say "its at this intersection" with the arrow pointed dead in the middle of an intersection with strip malls on all four corners! The satellite/plane images only help if the building is easily distinguishable from the roof (some restaurants have a visible design).
Hmm, seems similiar to how human run auctions are done - after every bid there is the option for another bid - it only ends after a time period has passed since the last bid.
Even better for ebay - make 90% of the auctions 1 day as that is what most people look at anyway (except some high-dollar/rare items)
Just found some stuff on that 3D patent lawsuit. Filed in Texas (Eastern District). PACER lists and complaints at here and just incase you are intrested the list of defendants is:
6:04-cv-00397-LED
Hewlett-Packard Co
Dell Computer Corporation
Gateway Inc
International Business Machines Corp
Toshiba America Inc
Sony Corporation
Acer Inc
MPC Computers LLC
Systemax, Inc
Fujitsu America, Inc
Micro Electronics Corp
Matsushita Electric Corporation of America
Averatec, Inc
Polywell Company, Inc
Sharp Electronics Corporation
Twinhead Corp
Uniwill Computer International Corp
JVC Americas Corporation
Acer America Corporation
Micro Electronics Inc.
Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation
Dell, Inc
6:04-cv-00398-LED
Electronic Arts, Inc.
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Activision Inc
Atari, Inc.
THQ, Inc.
Vivendi Universal Games, Inc.
Sega of American Inc.
Square Enix, Inc.
Tecmo, Inc.
Lucasarts Entertainment Co
Namco Hometek, Inc.
Ubisoft, Inc.
6:04-cv-00399-LED
Sony Corporation of America
Microsoft Corporation
Nintendo of America, Inc.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION,
Plaintiff,
v.
SEISMIC ENTERTAINMENT
PRODUCTIONS, INC.,
SMARTBOT.NET, INC., and
SANFORD WALLACE,
Defendants.
Civil No.
COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTION
AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF
Plaintiff, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission"), for its Complaint alleges as follows:
1. The Commission brings this action under Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act ("FTC Act"), 15 U.S.C. 53(b), to obtain preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, restitution, disgorgement and other equitable relief against the Defendants for their unfair acts or practices in connection with their marketing and their distribution of software programs to consumers in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 45(a).
JURISDICTION AND VENUE
2. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this matter pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 45(a), 52, and 53(b); and 28 U.S.C. 1331,1337(a) and 1345.
3. Venue in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire is proper under 15 U.S.C. 53(b), as amended by the FTC Act Amendments of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-312, 108 Stat. 1691, and 28 U.S.C. 1391(b) and (c).
PLAINTIFF
4. Plaintiff, the Federal Trade Commission, is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute. 15 U.S.C. 41 et seq. The Commission enforces Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 45(a), which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. The Commission is authorized to initiate federal district court proceedings by its own attorneys to enjoin violations of the FTC Act and to secure such equitable relief as may be appropriate in each case, including restitution for injured consumers, consumer redress, and disgorgement. 15 U.S.C. 53(b).
DEFENDANTS
5. Defendant Seismic Entertainment Productions, Inc. ("Seismic") is a New Hampshire corporation with its principal place of business located at 11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867. Since at least December 2003, and continuing thereafter, Seismic has marketed various products, including purported "anti-spyware" software called "Spy Wiper" and "Spy Deleter," on behalf of others. Seismic advertises these products through "pop-up" advertisements displayed to consumers using various Internet web sites that it controls, including the web sites at www.default-homepage-network.com and downloads.default-homepage-network.com. Seismic also downloads to and installs on consumers' computers various advertising and other software programs, including Favoriteman, TrojanDownloader and Clearsearch. Seismic transacts or has transacted business in the District of New Hampshire.
6. Defendant SmartBot.Net, Inc. ("SmartBot") is a Pennsylvania corporation with its corporate address at 3 Cobblestone Court, Richboro, Pennsylvania 18954, and its principal place of business at 495 Route 9, Barrington, New Hampshire 03825. Since at least December 2003, and continuing thereafter, SmartBot has marketed various products, including purported "anti-spyware" software called "Spy Wiper" and "Spy Deleter," on behalf of others. SmartBot advertises these products through popup advertisements displayed to consumers using various Internet web sites that it controls, including the web sites at www.passthison.com, object.passthison.com, and www.smartbotpro.net. In addition, the pop-up advertisements served by SmartBot also are displayed when a computer user visits various Internet web sites controlled by Seismic, including, but not limited to, www.default-homepage-network.com. SmartBot transacts or has transacted business in the District of New Hampshire.
7. Defendant Sanford Wallace ("Wallace") is or has been President and owner of Defendants Se
WTF? Whois Eric Idle? George Carlin, ok. The others?
I would like to point out that this is not only before my generation, but a quick check says my PARENTS don't remember most of this. (no jokes bout me, i'm sure this "generational gap" applies to one or two others here in/.)
I use the POP access and a custom domain name through Yahoo! for like ~$35/year and logged on this morning to find an email saying anyone with premium services will recieve the 2GB. Of course with POP access, why would I need this space when I download all my mail to my home systems? Given some of the recent problems with certain online email systems (uh, hotmail) deleting or *loosing* messages, I would rather trust the RAID on my home server (4x 36GB 15K SCSI w/hotspare).
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Sigh, the two oldes systems at my (current) company (mainframes actually) are called Yoda and Vega. Then we moved to very arbitrary names like xyzapp201 (xyz being company name), and xyzVTapp201 for virtual systems. of course no one could tell you what exactly application was on app201. Now they're a little better about naming them after the system (xyzSQL05 is a sql server boxen), but - and get this - you only get 3 characters for your app name, because - according to our server guys - the maximum length of a host name is *8* characters.... Err... wha? And believe it or not, this apparently is being caused by the linux (RH) servers we're starting to buy. I have long since given up on arguing with them on it.
I've worked on enterprise asset management systems in a number of different industries including electrical utilities, natural gas pipelines, and military. In almost every company they've had some variant of an "abandoned in place" asset status. In cases like power plants, trying to remove a single cable from a series of cable trays or raceways is rarely, if ever, worth the effort and risk. Some cable trays have dozens of cables (and I'm not talking cat5) in them, sometimes half of which are "dead" but removing those from the middle of a stack of hot cables in a working power plant doesn't have much of an ROI.
Google around and you will find that while CFLs do contain a small amount of Mercury in them it is far, far less than would be released into the public (water, air) by current power plants if they were running an incandescent bulb(s) for the equivalent life span. Try a few sites like snopes and wikipedia have good starting info.
Fresh from Pacer
14 - Defendant's Answer [PDF]14 Exhibit A [PDF]
14 Exhibit B [PDF]
Really this might not be too bad for what you say - I don't know how many times I look for something (say Taco Bell) on Google Maps and they say "its at this intersection" with the arrow pointed dead in the middle of an intersection with strip malls on all four corners! The satellite/plane images only help if the building is easily distinguishable from the roof (some restaurants have a visible design).
Of course didn't KFC already do this as a publicity stunt?
Hmm, seems similiar to how human run auctions are done - after every bid there is the option for another bid - it only ends after a time period has passed since the last bid.
Even better for ebay - make 90% of the auctions 1 day as that is what most people look at anyway (except some high-dollar/rare items)
For those who care I posted the complaint (from PACER) here:
http://www.fienx.net/5-05-cv-04244-RS.001.pdf 31pg, 2.08MB PDF
NSA has Security Enhanced Linux see their web site FMI.
Just found some stuff on that 3D patent lawsuit. Filed in Texas (Eastern District). PACER lists and complaints at here and just incase you are intrested the list of defendants is:
6:04-cv-00397-LED
Hewlett-Packard Co
Dell Computer Corporation
Gateway Inc
International Business Machines Corp
Toshiba America Inc
Sony Corporation
Acer Inc
MPC Computers LLC
Systemax, Inc
Fujitsu America, Inc
Micro Electronics Corp
Matsushita Electric Corporation of America
Averatec, Inc
Polywell Company, Inc
Sharp Electronics Corporation
Twinhead Corp
Uniwill Computer International Corp
JVC Americas Corporation
Acer America Corporation
Micro Electronics Inc.
Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation
Dell, Inc
6:04-cv-00398-LED
Electronic Arts, Inc.
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Activision Inc
Atari, Inc.
THQ, Inc.
Vivendi Universal Games, Inc.
Sega of American Inc.
Square Enix, Inc.
Tecmo, Inc.
Lucasarts Entertainment Co
Namco Hometek, Inc.
Ubisoft, Inc.
6:04-cv-00399-LED
Sony Corporation of America
Microsoft Corporation
Nintendo of America, Inc.
Just incase anyone cares:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION,
Plaintiff,
v.
SEISMIC ENTERTAINMENT
PRODUCTIONS, INC.,
SMARTBOT.NET, INC., and
SANFORD WALLACE,
Defendants.
Civil No.
COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTION
AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF
Plaintiff, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission"), for its Complaint alleges as follows:
1. The Commission brings this action under Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act ("FTC Act"), 15 U.S.C. 53(b), to obtain preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, restitution, disgorgement and other equitable relief against the Defendants for their unfair acts or practices in connection with their marketing and their distribution of software programs to consumers in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 45(a).
JURISDICTION AND VENUE
2. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this matter pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 45(a), 52, and 53(b); and 28 U.S.C. 1331,1337(a) and 1345.
3. Venue in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire is proper under 15 U.S.C. 53(b), as amended by the FTC Act Amendments of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-312, 108 Stat. 1691, and 28 U.S.C. 1391(b) and (c).
PLAINTIFF
4. Plaintiff, the Federal Trade Commission, is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute. 15 U.S.C. 41 et seq. The Commission enforces Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 45(a), which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. The Commission is authorized to initiate federal district court proceedings by its own attorneys to enjoin violations of the FTC Act and to secure such equitable relief as may be appropriate in each case, including restitution for injured consumers, consumer redress, and disgorgement. 15 U.S.C. 53(b).
DEFENDANTS
5. Defendant Seismic Entertainment Productions, Inc. ("Seismic") is a New Hampshire corporation with its principal place of business located at 11 Farmington Road, Rochester, New Hampshire 03867. Since at least December 2003, and continuing thereafter, Seismic has marketed various products, including purported "anti-spyware" software called "Spy Wiper" and "Spy Deleter," on behalf of others. Seismic advertises these products through "pop-up" advertisements displayed to consumers using various Internet web sites that it controls, including the web sites at www.default-homepage-network.com and downloads.default-homepage-network.com. Seismic also downloads to and installs on consumers' computers various advertising and other software programs, including Favoriteman, TrojanDownloader and Clearsearch. Seismic transacts or has transacted business in the District of New Hampshire.
6. Defendant SmartBot.Net, Inc. ("SmartBot") is a Pennsylvania corporation with its corporate address at 3 Cobblestone Court, Richboro, Pennsylvania 18954, and its principal place of business at 495 Route 9, Barrington, New Hampshire 03825. Since at least December 2003, and continuing thereafter, SmartBot has marketed various products, including purported "anti-spyware" software called "Spy Wiper" and "Spy Deleter," on behalf of others. SmartBot advertises these products through popup advertisements displayed to consumers using various Internet web sites that it controls, including the web sites at www.passthison.com, object.passthison.com, and www.smartbotpro.net. In addition, the pop-up advertisements served by SmartBot also are displayed when a computer user visits various Internet web sites controlled by Seismic, including, but not limited to, www.default-homepage-network.com. SmartBot transacts or has transacted business in the District of New Hampshire.
7. Defendant Sanford Wallace ("Wallace") is or has been President and owner of Defendants Se
just imagine a beowu....nevermind
Sure, it can join the ranks of LOCs and VWBFOT (VW Beatles Full Of Tapes)
WTF? Whois Eric Idle? George Carlin, ok. The others?
/.)
I would like to point out that this is not only before my generation, but a quick check says my PARENTS don't remember most of this. (no jokes bout me, i'm sure this "generational gap" applies to one or two others here in
This rates front page how?
Wouldn't geeks tend to do better if it was the most active brainwaves?
Might even give the paramedics something to do when your head explodes.
-- ain't got no sig
I use the POP access and a custom domain name through Yahoo! for like ~$35/year and logged on this morning to find an email saying anyone with premium services will recieve the 2GB. Of course with POP access, why would I need this space when I download all my mail to my home systems? Given some of the recent problems with certain online email systems (uh, hotmail) deleting or *loosing* messages, I would rather trust the RAID on my home server (4x 36GB 15K SCSI w/hotspare).