Hartmut Pilch, the president of pressure group the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)...
So Europe has 'pressure groups', while America has lobbyists. Maybe that's our problem -- '**AA lobbyist' sounds too warm and fuzzy. They should be renamed 'motion picture pressure group' or 'recording industry pressure group'. That's got a nice evil ring to it.
There's a difference between a patent and a copyright. Berkeley Labs has a nice "noob" summary for people like me. From there:
...patent protection can apply to the method or process. Remember that copyright protection does not protect the method, but the expression of the method. Patent law, on the other hand, can protect the method as well.
The image I get is of SCO as a little kid, trying to beat up a bigger kid (IBM), who is holding SCO at arm's length while their fists flail the air in frustration.
SCO can't file their 10-K because "it is examining matters related to stock issued as part of its compensation plans"? That's one of the lamer excuses sent to the SEC in a while.
Matters related to stock issued as part of its compensation plans? Maybe they've been trying to figure out how much toilet paper to buy to print the stock certificates on. At least it'll still be a little useful once the company is dead and buried.
If SCO is delisted and their stock drops below a dollar then the junk faxers currently targeting my office fax machine with junk stock pitches will start sending me notices about the "great opportunity to buy SCO" at 62 cents.
Sell short, before those offers arrive.
Buy back at 62 cents.
Profit!!
Take the kids on a Disney vacation with your SCO earnings. (Who says they're good for nothing?)
Not only does that make sense, but it could fit right in with emissions testing. They always note your mileage when you get tested, it would just be one more step in reporting it. You wouldn't even have to pay it at the testing center -- just get a bill in the mail a couple weeks after testing. They could even set up payment plans.
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Hartmut Pilch, the president of pressure group the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)...
So Europe has 'pressure groups', while America has lobbyists. Maybe that's our problem -- '**AA lobbyist' sounds too warm and fuzzy. They should be renamed 'motion picture pressure group' or 'recording industry pressure group'. That's got a nice evil ring to it.
only if the computer has calculated the cure for cancer at exactly 15 milliseconds after the user's orgasm.
Linux cures cancer while you surf pr0n? Why didn't anyone say this before? That's all I need to know, I'm switching over!
Give 'em a break, they gotta recharge their batteries after that IE7 story. ;)
The image I get is of SCO as a little kid, trying to beat up a bigger kid (IBM), who is holding SCO at arm's length while their fists flail the air in frustration.
Yeah, it's true! I see posts from Anonymous Coward all the time! Let's get him -- anyone have his email address?
Good thing they have plenty of lawyers....
But if the stock gets delisted they won't have anything to pay those lawyers with...
SCO can't file their 10-K because "it is examining matters related to stock issued as part of its compensation plans"? That's one of the lamer excuses sent to the SEC in a while.
Matters related to stock issued as part of its compensation plans? Maybe they've been trying to figure out how much toilet paper to buy to print the stock certificates on. At least it'll still be a little useful once the company is dead and buried.
Maybe this is the first sign that they are going down?
You're new here, eh?
The families of the dead police officers should file suit against the kid's family for raising a moron who can't separate reality from fantasy.
Idiocies like this lawsuit make me want to start playing D&D again just so I can kick somebody's ass.
Now, where did I put that vorpal sword...
Maybe that'll happen with the next Ghost Recon game...
Not really, but they stay crunchy in milk.
I can see it now, just like the old Reese's commercial...
Person #1: You got your biology in my engineering!
Person #2: You got your engineering in my biology!
Yes, a towel is very important. But you don't hitch a ride with a towel, you use the Sub-Etha thingy (the "thumb") for that.
Oh, a cop story?
Not only does that make sense, but it could fit right in with emissions testing. They always note your mileage when you get tested, it would just be one more step in reporting it. You wouldn't even have to pay it at the testing center -- just get a bill in the mail a couple weeks after testing. They could even set up payment plans.
I know this is OT, but when I was scanning your post it looked like you wrote "analyze user droppings".
Has anyone actually seen a legitimate IDN in the wild?
I did once, when I was out hiking in the Appalachians. It ran off before I could photograph it.
...was because the about:config 'fix' apparently doesn't work.
Three words: increase your dosage.
;)
Kinda went a bit over the edge at the end, but it was funny as hell, though.
...a Celebrity Deathmatch special (Corporate Deathmatch), with the lawyers for each of these corporations fighting it out with knives.
Fact 1: The album was distributed solely on the web.
Fact 2: She won a Grammy for the album.
Fact 3: Ain't no *might* about it.
At least now there's an alternative for those poor cancer-ridden souls who are allergic to carrots.