Somebody at IBM must have dropped the ball. This should have been covered by Monterey. And isn't it stupid for SCO to be playing "patent chicken" with IBM?
Them: Hello, this is Dewey, of Dewey Cheatham and Howe. We represent Lexmark. We noticed that you purchased a new toner cartridge without returning the old one.
Me: Oh, it's around here somewhere, I just haven't got around to mailing it.
We did artillery stuff. In technical parlance, guns are called "fire units". My boss told me about the time he wrote up a "fire unit check" routine in all innocence, and was told to rename it...
Then there were other fun things, such as SEXBUG, and one of my favorites, BANANA. There was a routine called "ACCESS" and another called "ACESS". This lead to confusion, hence BANANA ("By Any Name ACESS Not ACCESS").
Then theres the one a buddy of mine wrote (in assembly): Dude_You_Just_Nuked_The_Hard_Disk
I commonly wrote routines for filters labelled "snarf_in" and "barf_out", and my copyright notice code was titled "so_there()".
I like MyRealBox. Only one spam in about a year, and that was a dictionary attack. Of course it helps that I don't give out that address -- only used it at NewEgg and for DNSO stuff.
was all done filling in my personal information (retired female homemaker in Antarctica, born in 1891
I'm a 70 year old Afghan woman who is the head of a major multimedia corporation, making less than $20,000 per year. At least, that's what the New York Times thinks...
Before March 2002, it was very difficult to use the Corporate Espionage law. It required the cooperation of highly-placed Justice department officials. I don't know what happened to change it
I suspect what happened has the acronym USA-PATRIOT.
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especially when Britney Spear's movie did so poorly.
So there is hope for mankind.
You too! I thought I had the only one in my Gateway P5-90 OSR5 server!
It's here. Alas, it's MS only. Maybe it'll work under Wine.
"She said the RIAA board will conduct a search for her replacement."
And the ISP anyone found to have downloaded an MP3 of her replacement will be handed a subpoena!
Why don't they just fscking give him a free license to use it? Then it can't be used against them in a "Defend your trademark or lose it" suit.
IBM does ship them, so IBM pays
Somebody at IBM must have dropped the ball. This should have been covered by Monterey. And isn't it stupid for SCO to be playing "patent chicken" with IBM?
Then his staff gets it. And since an MP (or CongressCritter for us American types) relies on his staff for input, that's a Good Thing(tm).
Isn't that illegal? Or at least considered terrorism?
Of course, if he's not well endowed, he could argue that it wasn't much of a weapon...
Ring ring
Me: Hello, XYZ Corp. sconeu speaking.
Them: Hello, this is Dewey, of Dewey Cheatham and Howe. We represent Lexmark. We noticed that you purchased a new toner cartridge without returning the old one.
Me: Oh, it's around here somewhere, I just haven't got around to mailing it.
Porn site creators/admins have some striking similarities to spammers
You might want to talk to the NineNine guy or the autopr0n guy about that.
People are assuming MS is guilty due to past actions...
Go! Computer
Stac Electronics
Borland
etc...
He didn't say "12 hours fscking with it", he called it "12 fscking hours"...
In the defense world, too...
We did artillery stuff. In technical parlance, guns are called "fire units". My boss told me about the time he wrote up a "fire unit check" routine in all innocence, and was told to rename it...
Then there were other fun things, such as SEXBUG, and one of my favorites, BANANA. There was a routine called "ACCESS" and another called "ACESS". This lead to confusion, hence BANANA ("By Any Name ACESS Not ACCESS").
Then theres the one a buddy of mine wrote (in assembly): Dude_You_Just_Nuked_The_Hard_Disk
I commonly wrote routines for filters labelled "snarf_in" and "barf_out", and my copyright notice code was titled "so_there()".
we could then modify or create laws to make the system in question more equitable.
Dude, just remember this:
Equality of Opportunity does not equal Equality of Result.
BTW... why hasn't Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, or Peter Jennings done an in-depth report on the effects of communications industry consoldiation?
You're kidding, right?
Nope, can't happen. Disney owns ABC. Now, replace ABC with NBC!!!
SBC-20th Century Fox-Viacom-NBC-Amazon-Microsoft Corp(MSNBC)-DirectTV, an Enron Company.
WTF are you talking about? Disney owns a fscking major network!! Or haven't you heard of ABC?
I like MyRealBox. Only one spam in about a year, and that was a dictionary attack. Of course it helps that I don't give out that address -- only used it at NewEgg and for DNSO stuff.
was all done filling in my personal information (retired female homemaker in Antarctica, born in 1891
I'm a 70 year old Afghan woman who is the head of a major multimedia corporation, making less than $20,000 per year. At least, that's what the New York Times thinks...
Before March 2002, it was very difficult to use the Corporate Espionage law. It required the cooperation of highly-placed Justice department officials. I don't know what happened to change it
I suspect what happened has the acronym USA-PATRIOT.
I just don't think Elvis sounds as good when he's been translated to French.
But now you can get all those priceless Jerry Lewis recordings... "Gee, Lady!"
Hey! They got the "Only ship in the quadrant", and "ship full of trainees" thing right too!
At the risk of sounding like a fanboy...
The "Savage Curtain" version of Kahless came from Kirk's imagination. No nit.
Ah yes.... the original IBM 101key. I swore by it. I never gave it up until I had to... used it for years on my HDS X-Terminal!
Collies that can cook, play poker, and/or defend you with mouth-mounted lasers: F
Sharks with frickin' <FINGERQUOTES>"Lasers"</FINGERQUOTES> attached to their heads: F