... 'mek2600' has just been elected the newest leader of India! In a statement to the press mek2600, and English-speaking American said, "The 2600 in my name has nothing to do with hacking, hackers, or anything like that. I won this election in Indiana fair and square. What? I won in India? Not Indiana? Damn typos."
Perfection? Dropped posts and a lack of distributed file sharing doesn't fit my description of "perfection".
I should get a *real* news server that has better post retention you say? Well, that costs money and WASTE/Kazaa Lite doesn't. USENET is great for many things, but not for all things.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That's the only way to be sure.
This suggestion is obviously coming from someone who does not live in the northwest US. As someone who does, I think the sniper is a much better idea.
This post is obviously coming from somebody who has never seen Aliens.
This post is obviously coming from someone who is very perceptive. My lack of movie trivia has caused me to miss yet another joke.:)
I disagree that apathy has been the victor so far- we're just fighting a very uphill battle. Microsoft got lucky in the fact that the time in which they came "into power" was when the industry was very open to someone rising up and dominating. Now we just just have to do what most of us are doing- dispelling FUD, contributing to the open source community, and doing other activities that generally chip away at Microsoft's base.
Remember, Rome not only wasn't built in a day, but also wasn't destroyed in a day either. We're on the right track, but it's going to take a while to get people over to the alternatives of Microsoft.
Well, I use Windows only to VNC into my Linux box so I can do all my work. I do that so I can at least *appear* to be non-geeky to anyone who wanders by when the VNC session isn't up.
So, if I excel at making money, I should get knighted? Mr. Gates and Microsoft has done lots of things, but making money is the only thing they've ever done well.
Yeah, "soft" is common, but is by no means the only thing he could have closen. He just wanted to ride he coattails of Microsoft in some way and will probably wind up paying the price for that.
I would agree with anyone who said that Mr. Rowe probably didnt have any malicious intent, but copyright violations are not anything to take chances with.
He didn't have to put the "soft" on there, though. He could have ended it with "Systems", "Designs", etc, etc, etc and have it be just as clever. He'll lose because it is a blatant attempt to capitalize off the Microsoft trademark. Just look at all the attention he's gotten so far.
Nobody thinks that him being named "Mike Rowe" is a problem, it's that he added a "Soft" being it that's causing the problem. This is a stupid lawsuit because Mr. Rowe is an idiot for getting himself sued so easily.
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... 'mek2600' has just been elected the newest leader of India! In a statement to the press mek2600, and English-speaking American said, "The 2600 in my name has nothing to do with hacking, hackers, or anything like that. I won this election in Indiana fair and square. What? I won in India? Not Indiana? Damn typos."
Perfection? Dropped posts and a lack of distributed file sharing doesn't fit my description of "perfection".
I should get a *real* news server that has better post retention you say? Well, that costs money and WASTE/Kazaa Lite doesn't. USENET is great for many things, but not for all things.
I wish I were an Indian right now. It would be sooo much easier to find a tech job if I were.
I disagree that apathy has been the victor so far- we're just fighting a very uphill battle. Microsoft got lucky in the fact that the time in which they came "into power" was when the industry was very open to someone rising up and dominating. Now we just just have to do what most of us are doing- dispelling FUD, contributing to the open source community, and doing other activities that generally chip away at Microsoft's base.
Remember, Rome not only wasn't built in a day, but also wasn't destroyed in a day either. We're on the right track, but it's going to take a while to get people over to the alternatives of Microsoft.
Well, I use Windows only to VNC into my Linux box so I can do all my work. I do that so I can at least *appear* to be non-geeky to anyone who wanders by when the VNC session isn't up.
Well, like most /. folk, I'm using Firefox on BSD on an SPARC.
/. used SPARCs.
Man, I didn't realize I was so lame. I didn't know most people on
There's also one for Trillian as well. Oddly enough, that's how I got to this article.
What does that even mean?
No one will ever mod that up- it's too long. Waaaaay out of reach for the average shashdotter's attention span.
The spellchecker will be the first thing they run on that cluster. You'd need a badass powerful system to sort through all those errors.
If you not an economist like me, your opinions on ... do not count.
How about this: if you're an AC then YOUR opinions do not count.
How do you like THAT, fucktard?
It doesnt frighten me- the world needs people like that. I just thank God that I'm not one of 'em.
Would that still be infringement? To name a company something that was derivative of an existing copyrighted name?
I was born in February- can you send a link to where I can get that distro?
Yeah. The most skewed and innacurate poll in /. history.
(Like 0% accurate is any worse than the other polls they've had.)
This is awesome. I am *so* going to the moon after I get this off Bit Torrent and compile it.
5 inches is average size Average size, or average size for a Slashdotter?
So, if I excel at making money, I should get knighted? Mr. Gates and Microsoft has done lots of things, but making money is the only thing they've ever done well.
Well, there goes that obscurity thing.
Yeah, "soft" is common, but is by no means the only thing he could have closen. He just wanted to ride he coattails of Microsoft in some way and will probably wind up paying the price for that. I would agree with anyone who said that Mr. Rowe probably didnt have any malicious intent, but copyright violations are not anything to take chances with.
He didn't have to put the "soft" on there, though. He could have ended it with "Systems", "Designs", etc, etc, etc and have it be just as clever. He'll lose because it is a blatant attempt to capitalize off the Microsoft trademark. Just look at all the attention he's gotten so far.
Does it really take a legal expert to see the problem that mikerowesoft.com would create?
Nobody thinks that him being named "Mike Rowe" is a problem, it's that he added a "Soft" being it that's causing the problem. This is a stupid lawsuit because Mr. Rowe is an idiot for getting himself sued so easily.