"Seriously, this email address is a complete waste of time. Do you really think there are 421 other users of Yahoo email that are also named Scott Richter? The second that address gets more than ten spams per day I guarantee he'll abandon it."
"The only upside is that there are no criminal charges or securities-fraud litigation. Yet. That may come, if insiders enriched themselves during the stock runup."
They did enrich themselves. Can't find the link yet but they had some decent posts about it on groklaw. Every one of the corporate officers sold their original stake in a series of timed sales, which were properly reported to the SEC. Their former CFO netted millions, in fact. If I find the link I'm thinking of, I'll post it.
Regarding your car example: It's all about money. Warrant as little as possible, disclaim everything, etc. My late parents went through something similar when I was in college with their new car. All it took was a call to their lawyer, who gladly took it on contingency. 10 days later, they had a new transmission installed by the dealer, valued at $2500. The lesson is this: Know when to stick up for yourself.
That sounds like a poor business to me. Where I work, we could lose every machine in the place and still function - because we do every transaction on both paper *and* electronically. Yes, it's a lot of extra effort. I'm afraid the engineering dept. would bitch, but they'd live. FWIW, this is a $300 mil manufacturer. And the General Mgr has a Win98 desktop because if it isn't broken, why fix it?
I would like to remind everybody that the current Wi-Fi bands *were* Ham bands not too long ago. (1990's). For that matter a lot of the tech we take for granted came from radio hobbyists. FWIW the Hams usually lose when there's a bandwidth auction, in my experience. (FCC, USA) being non-profit and all.
Not that it matters. LinkSys went through the same thing here in the US, during the Cisco buyout. I imagine that would be enough precedent for US courts.
SARCASM_ON: Yeah, right. It was a feature. So we didn't document it. Hell, we didn't even advertise it. I run linux exclusively; and I'd expect patches the same day for any system I deal with, be it Mac, Windows, or anything else. Of course, I could always take my business elsewhere; I prefer to deal with those who stand behind their products, words, and actions, *without lawyers and weasel-wording*, which is why I prefer Open systems per se. They have a better track record, IMHO.
Er, partitioning is technical? Guess I've been living under a rock or something. Not, BTW, that I'm crazy about dual boot - the standalone solutions like knoppix are far superior IMHO.
I don't even *do* any of the stuff the worm is targeting, and I'm *still* disgusted. Personal policy time: I've used free software for enough years to forget anything else or even have meaningful memories of anything else. I also pay for the tickets to see local groups and Broadway/classical. No, I don't do P2P. Nor do I buy CD's or DVD's, etc. Haven't done so at all, in fact. Instead, I actually buy the tickets and go to the show.
At one point in time, IBM was the megacorp that Microsoft is now. The thing that caused them to change was economic forces; having near-monopoly control became relatively more expensive as new unit sales dropped. The only difference I can see with Microsoft is that they have the OEM's and EOL'd some of their products much soomer than IBM would. I don't think that's going to last forever though; consumers already don't like the licensing or the EOL's and the financial pressure will eventually be reflected back through the OEM's and directed at Microsoft. After all, they have to have at least some profit margin. Just an idea.
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Kinda says a lot doesn't it?
They did enrich themselves. Can't find the link yet but they had some decent posts about it on groklaw. Every one of the corporate officers sold their original stake in a series of timed sales, which were properly reported to the SEC. Their former CFO netted millions, in fact. If I find the link I'm thinking of, I'll post it.
Er? your post is logical enough, but why would a media player codec need its own kernel module? Unless you are rendering WMP9 in hardware?
I use Linux and my list is less than ten?
Er, we already knew that.
What does this do for Gmail? I'm presuming it probably has a web interface.
Regarding your car example: It's all about money. Warrant as little as possible, disclaim everything, etc. My late parents went through something similar when I was in college with their new car. All it took was a call to their lawyer, who gladly took it on contingency. 10 days later, they had a new transmission installed by the dealer, valued at $2500. The lesson is this: Know when to stick up for yourself.
The goatse guy was a jpeg. Not sure if its art tho.
That sounds like a poor business to me. Where I work, we could lose every machine in the place and still function - because we do every transaction on both paper *and* electronically. Yes, it's a lot of extra effort. I'm afraid the engineering dept. would bitch, but they'd live. FWIW, this is a $300 mil manufacturer. And the General Mgr has a Win98 desktop because if it isn't broken, why fix it?
I would like to remind everybody that the current Wi-Fi bands *were* Ham bands not too long ago. (1990's). For that matter a lot of the tech we take for granted came from radio hobbyists. FWIW the Hams usually lose when there's a bandwidth auction, in my experience. (FCC, USA) being non-profit and all.
are also wireless devices, useful for communication and recording information.
Not that it matters. LinkSys went through the same thing here in the US, during the Cisco buyout. I imagine that would be enough precedent for US courts.
SARCASM_ON: Yeah, right. It was a feature. So we didn't document it. Hell, we didn't even advertise it. I run linux exclusively; and I'd expect patches the same day for any system I deal with, be it Mac, Windows, or anything else. Of course, I could always take my business elsewhere; I prefer to deal with those who stand behind their products, words, and actions, *without lawyers and weasel-wording*, which is why I prefer Open systems per se. They have a better track record, IMHO.
Remember, nobody *owes* you a living. I've had both General Managers and CEO's tell me that, repeatedly. Now, go practice what you preach.
Er, partitioning is technical? Guess I've been living under a rock or something. Not, BTW, that I'm crazy about dual boot - the standalone solutions like knoppix are far superior IMHO.
does the Microsoft DRM patent buyouts make sense? Or anything else, for that matter?
I notice in the article that some random politician seems opposed to it. I wonder why?
That's nothing... sometimes, I suspect that the commandline args *are* Talmudic!
I don't even *do* any of the stuff the worm is targeting, and I'm *still* disgusted. Personal policy time: I've used free software for enough years to forget anything else or even have meaningful memories of anything else. I also pay for the tickets to see local groups and Broadway/classical. No, I don't do P2P. Nor do I buy CD's or DVD's, etc. Haven't done so at all, in fact. Instead, I actually buy the tickets and go to the show.
these It's been awhile since I've seen one, but commercially made units are also available. Basically you trade off volume for head.
Not to mention using plenty of plants and animals, too. IMHO it's more a distribution and effective usage problem for human populations.
By the time you drink a glass of water, it has passed through fifty thousand fish bladders since the time of Christ.
I like the idea, but here in the US, the filing fees alone are easily equal to a new car payment. That's just to file for it, not to actually get it.
At one point in time, IBM was the megacorp that Microsoft is now. The thing that caused them to change was economic forces; having near-monopoly control became relatively more expensive as new unit sales dropped. The only difference I can see with Microsoft is that they have the OEM's and EOL'd some of their products much soomer than IBM would. I don't think that's going to last forever though; consumers already don't like the licensing or the EOL's and the financial pressure will eventually be reflected back through the OEM's and directed at Microsoft. After all, they have to have at least some profit margin. Just an idea.