You have to wonder why in the world anyone would want to buy the business division, considering the SCO name is poison to just about anyone who knows anything about Unix.
Maybe because they have a 3-letter domain name? Probably their most valuable asset;-)
Unfortunately there are people involved in the ownership of these mobile devices (aka users). When users are involved security is always inconvenient, an obstacle or even a nuisance. People want security via magic, not actual implementation of secure and common sense practices.
And I thought, my proposal to turn Microsoft employees into a river of blood flowing between hills made of crushed bones, topped by skulls of Gates and Ballmer, was extreme.
Not extreme, just not environmentally friendly enough to be given the proper consideration.
Such as perhaps those fine people who produced "Who's Nailin' Palin".
To be fair, the lighting in that movie was done very well. The back story (not to be confused with the on-her-back story) didn't get the same attention to detail.
This PR campaign is going to give the opposite of the intended result, just like all of them do lately. Microsoft needs to hire a pr firm that knows what they are doing. You know what? Never mind. Carry on, love your work.
I hear Apple's "Antenna problem, what antenna problem?" PR people are available for freelance work;-)
Suppose a Windows 7 phone user looks up a club through Bing and then meets with his friends there, and the Google Latitude app then counts this in favor of that location. Is Google then copying from Microsoft?
Does this mean she's trying to prevent others from using her name in articles/posts/blogs/etc without her approval or consent? Will she be able to use the DMCA to force removal of anything negative about her that she does't like?
Well to be fair, who would have thought that making essentially unfounded legal threats against people, trying to extort money from them and threatening to "expose" their alleged "illegal" porn downloading in the hope that they'll choose a cash settlement over having their life ruined would upset people in any way?
Extortion and blackmail make people cranky? Who knew?? ACS were acting like bullies and now they're running away with their tail between their legs because some people are standing up to them. Karma is a pendulum of vengeance and it's swinging back in ACS's direction. Let's hope they get what's coming to them (legally, of course, because good citizens would never suggest scoundrels meet with violence).
I don't know about the 'reputation' of the legal system in the UK, but here in the US it's so tarnished there isn't much to reflect any more. I guess I could say the same thing about most of our press, too.
Gotta be more specific. Trial lawyers love eating their own. Copyright lawyers love the low hanging meat someone is smoking / drying. Patent lawyers love eating things that are at least 10x bigger than themselves. Tax lawyers eat anything they want. Personal injury lawyers love eating the chewed off legs left in traps.
Gee, thanks. With all this talk about eating it seems I'm hungry again.
What i don't understand is why the network providers keep pushing mobile video and tethering.
Additional fees. Tethering is an extra $20 per month (for 2GB?). I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually offer a 'professional' data plan that doesn't throttle excessive users for an additional fee.
Also known as: We don't want to look like AT&T when a shit ton of people start using their iPhone on our network.
Since Verizon won't have simultaneous voice and data they probably won't have to worry about repeating AT&T's 'data delivery debacle'. Once their LTE (aka G4'ish) is available to phones (this summer?) it should help speed things along (but they're probably still going to throttle as many people as they can just to make sure 'unlimited data' is only a marketing tool and not an actual product/service).
Oh please. Enough with this "Steve's Ego" stuff. We all know he's using Disney's animatronics labs to give him the closest thing to immortality he can get until the revamped iLive is released in 2017.
Andrew L. Ritter, executive director of the engineers licensing board, said it will take three or four months to investigate Lacy's allegation against Cox. He said there is a potential for violation if DOT and the public were misled by "engineering-quality work"- even if the authors did not claim to be engineers.
So the DOT is even in favor of charging him for possibly being misled by a report that may have met engineering-quality work? Was the real problem that it too complicated for the DOT to understand? What asshats!
How spelling standards have obviously fallen in the USA. 'Six' is the preferred spelling.
I'm pretty sure that they meant 'sicks' (as in the verb 'to sick')... but they may have misspelled it on purpose to avoid the obvious "this story makes me sick" definition of 'sick'.
And don't 'Whoosh' me. It had to be said before the real grammar police show up and assault Mr. ChunderDownunder.
It was a truly sad day (in 2004) when India's court ruled that astrology was a science, but it wasn't the first. The article states that the Bombay High Court merely reaffirmed this ruling. So it's *another* sad day for India. They just don't know the difference between an philosophy and a science.
So science built their nuclear weapons, but astrology may play a part in launching them?
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Does anybody know what UnXis is?
I think UnXis is the plural of Unix.
You have to wonder why in the world anyone would want to buy the business division, considering the SCO name is poison to just about anyone who knows anything about Unix.
Maybe because they have a 3-letter domain name? Probably their most valuable asset ;-)
They owned linux? Were you under a rock for a decade?
No, Darl McBride is just posting on /. again.
Unfortunately there are people involved in the ownership of these mobile devices (aka users). When users are involved security is always inconvenient, an obstacle or even a nuisance. People want security via magic, not actual implementation of secure and common sense practices.
That's an interesting take on this legal development. In your analogy, is ACS the man with the hat or the red ball that was lost by the little girl?
And I thought, my proposal to turn Microsoft employees into a river of blood flowing between hills made of crushed bones, topped by skulls of Gates and Ballmer, was extreme.
Not extreme, just not environmentally friendly enough to be given the proper consideration.
Such as perhaps those fine people who produced "Who's Nailin' Palin".
To be fair, the lighting in that movie was done very well. The back story (not to be confused with the on-her-back story) didn't get the same attention to detail.
$10 says she uses this as a club to try to quell speech that she doesn't like.
[Citation Needed] as I have seen nothing to imply that Sarah Palin wants to user violence to quell speech.
The club is a metaphor ... just like the ponies on /., they represent something other than their specific definitions.
What Google did was equitable to click fraud.
You mean equivalent. Don't try to use big words if you don't know what they mean.
Ah HA! He caught you copying his post. His use of equitable was simply a honeypot to lure you into exposing yourself (ew, not in that way).
This PR campaign is going to give the opposite of the intended result, just like all of them do lately. Microsoft needs to hire a pr firm that knows what they are doing. You know what? Never mind. Carry on, love your work.
I hear Apple's "Antenna problem, what antenna problem?" PR people are available for freelance work ;-)
Suppose a Windows 7 phone user looks up a club through Bing and then meets with his friends there, and the Google Latitude app then counts this in favor of that location. Is Google then copying from Microsoft?
That depends, is it club hiybbprqag?
Does this mean she's trying to prevent others from using her name in articles/posts/blogs/etc without her approval or consent? Will she be able to use the DMCA to force removal of anything negative about her that she does't like?
Well to be fair, who would have thought that making essentially unfounded legal threats against people, trying to extort money from them and threatening to "expose" their alleged "illegal" porn downloading in the hope that they'll choose a cash settlement over having their life ruined would upset people in any way?
Extortion and blackmail make people cranky? Who knew?? ACS were acting like bullies and now they're running away with their tail between their legs because some people are standing up to them. Karma is a pendulum of vengeance and it's swinging back in ACS's direction. Let's hope they get what's coming to them (legally, of course, because good citizens would never suggest scoundrels meet with violence).
I don't know about the 'reputation' of the legal system in the UK, but here in the US it's so tarnished there isn't much to reflect any more. I guess I could say the same thing about most of our press, too.
> and they look after their own.
Gotta be more specific. Trial lawyers love eating their own. Copyright lawyers love the low hanging meat someone is smoking / drying. Patent lawyers love eating things that are at least 10x bigger than themselves. Tax lawyers eat anything they want. Personal injury lawyers love eating the chewed off legs left in traps.
Gee, thanks. With all this talk about eating it seems I'm hungry again.
Someone will always to find something to bitch about ... even in a submission about 'free porn is legal!'
Just imagine all the "research" that went into this case...
"Your honor, I'm afraid I need to, um, 'file more briefs'. I'll be back in a little while."
What i don't understand is why the network providers keep pushing mobile video and tethering.
Additional fees. Tethering is an extra $20 per month (for 2GB?). I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually offer a 'professional' data plan that doesn't throttle excessive users for an additional fee.
Also known as: We don't want to look like AT&T when a shit ton of people start using their iPhone on our network.
Since Verizon won't have simultaneous voice and data they probably won't have to worry about repeating AT&T's 'data delivery debacle'. Once their LTE (aka G4'ish) is available to phones (this summer?) it should help speed things along (but they're probably still going to throttle as many people as they can just to make sure 'unlimited data' is only a marketing tool and not an actual product/service).
guilty as charged, your honour.
Your honour? Hmmm, that gives me an idea ... I *am* rather judgmental ... do you think would NC site me for being a Judge without a license?
Oh please. Enough with this "Steve's Ego" stuff. We all know he's using Disney's animatronics labs to give him the closest thing to immortality he can get until the revamped iLive is released in 2017.
Andrew L. Ritter, executive director of the engineers licensing board, said it will take three or four months to investigate Lacy's allegation against Cox. He said there is a potential for violation if DOT and the public were misled by "engineering-quality work"- even if the authors did not claim to be engineers.
So the DOT is even in favor of charging him for possibly being misled by a report that may have met engineering-quality work? Was the real problem that it too complicated for the DOT to understand? What asshats!
First we have a story on 'apps'.
How spelling standards have obviously fallen in the USA. 'Six' is the preferred spelling.
I'm pretty sure that they meant 'sicks' (as in the verb 'to sick') ... but they may have misspelled it on purpose to avoid the obvious "this story makes me sick" definition of 'sick'.
And don't 'Whoosh' me. It had to be said before the real grammar police show up and assault Mr. ChunderDownunder.
It was a truly sad day (in 2004) when India's court ruled that astrology was a science, but it wasn't the first. The article states that the Bombay High Court merely reaffirmed this ruling. So it's *another* sad day for India. They just don't know the difference between an philosophy and a science.
So science built their nuclear weapons, but astrology may play a part in launching them?
A high court in an important-to-technology-business country just ruled that magic is science. That's pretty newsworthy.
Well, it's not magic until one of the cockamamy predictions is correct. Until then it's just like predicting the weather, but with even less accuracy.