Not to be a karma whore or anything, but if these pages bothered you like they did me, here's the info you wanted:
Company: Chef Works, Inc. Headquarters: San Diego, Calif. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec Settlement Paid: $102,000
Company: Roger's Gardens Headquarters: Corona Del Mar, Calif. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec Settlement Paid: $73,368
Company: Datatec Systems, Inc. Headquarters: Alpharetta, Ga. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec Settlement Paid: $69,000
Company: RAIR Technologies, Inc. Headquarters: Brookfield, Wis. Type of Unlicensed Software: Microsoft Settlement Paid: $150,000
Company: J&B Importers, Inc. Headquarters: Miami, Fla. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft, and Symantec Settlement Paid: $100,000
Company: Media Lab Ventures, LLC Headquarters: Tampa, Fla. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft Settlement Paid: $125,000
Company: AccentCare, Inc. Headquarters: Irvine, Calif. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe and Microsoft Settlement Paid: $240,400
Company: Investors Management Trust Real Estate Group, Inc. Headquarters: Sherman Oaks, Calif. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec Settlement Paid: $235,000
Company: Global Microwave Systems, Inc. Headquarters: Carlsbad, Calif. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft and Symantec Settlement Paid: $231,500
Company: The Waggoners Trucking Headquarters: Billings, Mont. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec Settlement Paid: $300,000
Company: Burlington Coat Factory Headquarters: Burlington, N.J. Type of Unlicensed Software: Microsoft and McAfee Settlement Paid: $300,000
Company: Payless ShoeSource, Inc. Headquarters: Topeka, Kan. Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, Internet Security Systems, McAfee and Symantec Settlement Paid: $124,057
Many of the BSA's enforcement actions are made possible through the BSA Reward Program, which offers anywhere between $5,000 to $1 million to individuals who report offending companies.
It says "BSOD" in several places in the article. Unless you are writing bad drivers, (which I'd admit may have been an issue, seeing as they are interacting with hardware, the fireworks squibbs) software or data problems should not be able to cause an OS crash unless your OS sucks. (though the squibb board was likely USB controlled)
I'm just curious... what drugs are you on? I just searched both articles and neither said anything about a BSOD except for a comment half way through one of the article. I mean, bashing windows and microsoft is easy. At least try to be accurate though.
it's an open source library tracking system. due to a recent review where someone had a library of 3k+ books and had problems with alexandria, people on the dev list have been actively addressing some of the reviewer's concerns. of course, they are still looking for help (like any open source project), but it's been an ongoing gnome project for a while. details here.
I couldn't find the post asking how the guy was caught (i.e. what software), but here you go. FTA: Larry Brass, the Tampa Police detective who arrested Eric Almly this spring, says he's not permitted to endorse a particular product. But he says if Outback's laptops were not outfitted with software called Computrace LoJack for Laptops, made by Absolute Software, there is "no question" Almly would be walking free today.
Here is how it works: after a computer is stolen, the victim notifies Absolute's recovery team. When the thief accesses the Internet via that computer, the Computrace software on his computer silently broadcasts information that allows the team to determine his physical location.
With a street address in hand, police can make an arrest. The corporate version of the software gives subscribers the ability to remotely delete sensitive information from a computer.
Nothing scares me more than 75 year old people approving software patents.
FTA: Patent officials are looking at hiring back retirees to work on the patent backlog and at revising "duty station" requirements so the agency can expand into a nationwide workforce.
Ecogeek is reporting that you can get a car that looks like an airplane and gets close to 300 mpg. It also starts selling next year. The car in question is pretty sexy - you can preorder one at this extremely annoying web page.
If you make your own little film & a company releases snippets of it on their station with commentary (exactly what happened here), they should be protected just as you would be if you took 30 seconds worth of film from a Tom Cruise movie and over dubbed it with hilarious Scientology remarks at opportune times.
This is arguable the most insightful comment ever seen on slashdot. And potentially one of the most inspiring. Dare I watch a Tom Cruise movie?
I just recently ran across a problem with a shareware program I was evaluating. This may help you determine whether or not to use this particular method.
First, some brief back story. I set up my laptop with 3 user accounts, one for me, one for my wife, and an administrator account. I had my privs set to power user, and hers set to non admin. She kept trying to open the system clock for the calendar functionality - and was getting denied. She finally came to me in disgust and said fix it. I was lazy, made her a power user, and went on with my day instead of doing the right fix.
About two weeks ago I installed CMud, which has a 31 day trial period. Two days ago, I noticed that the system clock time was changed, inappropriately, to January 17th 2008 or something like that. I changed it back, and now can no longer open the program because the system clock has been updated during the evalution period. No work around available - I can't just decide I liked the software and purchase it even. This last part boggles the mind - if I liked the software enough to try and bypass the copy protection, wouldn't you still want me to be able to purchase the software?
The answer: Uninstall CMud + go back to zmud. (zmud is good enough for me, once upon a time it was so good that I bought two copies of it - one for me, one for a friend).
My undergrad marketing class confirmed everything I'd suspected.
What you're seeing there is the different between an undergrad class and a graduate level course like the GP took.
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hrm. right there under adult content link on the right hand side. oh. you aren't a total farker. If you like fark, pay the $5 a month for information overload and more boobies than you can shake a stick at. Yes, that stick you sick bastard./serious cat//serious thread///slashies ftw
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Microsoft... air... just in time for a daily wtf
Or is gravity an article of faith too, because you never know, one day something might fall upwards?!
//+4 funny?
Sounds to me like you've never been introduced to the idea of Intelligent Falling
Makes sense to me. 30k for a month while Amazon's BAs come up with a brib^H^H^H^H solution to the problem.
Not to be a karma whore or anything, but if these pages bothered you like they did me, here's the info you wanted:
Company: Chef Works, Inc.
Headquarters: San Diego, Calif.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $102,000
Company: Roger's Gardens
Headquarters: Corona Del Mar, Calif.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $73,368
Company: Datatec Systems, Inc.
Headquarters: Alpharetta, Ga.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $69,000
Company: RAIR Technologies, Inc.
Headquarters: Brookfield, Wis.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Microsoft
Settlement Paid: $150,000
Company: J&B Importers, Inc.
Headquarters: Miami, Fla.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft, and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $100,000
Company: Media Lab Ventures, LLC
Headquarters: Tampa, Fla.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft
Settlement Paid: $125,000
Company: AccentCare, Inc.
Headquarters: Irvine, Calif.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe and Microsoft
Settlement Paid: $240,400
Company: Investors Management Trust Real Estate Group, Inc.
Headquarters: Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $235,000
Company: Global Microwave Systems, Inc.
Headquarters: Carlsbad, Calif.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $231,500
Company: The Waggoners Trucking
Headquarters: Billings, Mont.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $300,000
Company: Burlington Coat Factory
Headquarters: Burlington, N.J.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Microsoft and McAfee
Settlement Paid: $300,000
Company: Payless ShoeSource, Inc.
Headquarters: Topeka, Kan.
Type of Unlicensed Software: Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, Internet Security Systems, McAfee and Symantec
Settlement Paid: $124,057
Many of the BSA's enforcement actions are made possible through the BSA Reward Program, which offers anywhere between $5,000 to $1 million to individuals who report offending companies.
It says "BSOD" in several places in the article. Unless you are writing bad drivers, (which I'd admit may have been an issue, seeing as they are interacting with hardware, the fireworks squibbs) software or data problems should not be able to cause an OS crash unless your OS sucks. (though the squibb board was likely USB controlled)
I'm just curious... what drugs are you on? I just searched both articles and neither said anything about a BSOD except for a comment half way through one of the article. I mean, bashing windows and microsoft is easy. At least try to be accurate though.
-1 another insipid post moderated insightful?
it's an open source library tracking system. due to a recent review where someone had a library of 3k+ books and had problems with alexandria, people on the dev list have been actively addressing some of the reviewer's concerns. of course, they are still looking for help (like any open source project), but it's been an ongoing gnome project for a while. details here.
there's a link at the bottom that doesn't work. looks like the correct link is here. Might want to fix that, submitter.
I couldn't find the post asking how the guy was caught (i.e. what software), but here you go.
FTA:
Larry Brass, the Tampa Police detective who arrested Eric Almly this spring, says he's not permitted to endorse a particular product. But he says if Outback's laptops were not outfitted with software called Computrace LoJack for Laptops, made by Absolute Software, there is "no question" Almly would be walking free today.
Here is how it works: after a computer is stolen, the victim notifies Absolute's recovery team. When the thief accesses the Internet via that computer, the Computrace software on his computer silently broadcasts information that allows the team to determine his physical location.
With a street address in hand, police can make an arrest. The corporate version of the software gives subscribers the ability to remotely delete sensitive information from a computer.
it's called the "Our lawyers can kick your lawyers ass" deal.
Yeah, turns out that was just their internet connection. They realized what happened when they couldn't post on slashdot anymore.
Nothing scares me more than 75 year old people approving software patents.
FTA:
Patent officials are looking at hiring back retirees to work on the patent backlog and at revising "duty station" requirements so the agency can expand into a nationwide workforce.
I mean, Captain Kirk, ruby programmer, author.
What a stud.
you'll find on the second page of TFA that it's automated.
Ecogeek is reporting that you can get a car that looks like an airplane and gets close to 300 mpg. It also starts selling next year. The car in question is pretty sexy - you can preorder one at this extremely annoying web page.
Anyone got a colorblind friendly version of the map?
FTA:
Responses: positive: green, negative: red, mix: yellow.
seriously guys, wtf.
there's also the free compatibility pack available here for earlier versions of word.
Thanks Bullwinkle, a ruble for your troubles!
No! Not one red cent!
These findings are void in Kansas. ;) /sorry Kansas, you'll be the butt of jokes forever
Is that 6 billion in excel dollars?
According to some excel functions, that's really only 3,932,100,000.
If you make your own little film & a company releases snippets of it on their station with commentary (exactly what happened here), they should be protected just as you would be if you took 30 seconds worth of film from a Tom Cruise movie and over dubbed it with hilarious Scientology remarks at opportune times.
This is arguable the most insightful comment ever seen on slashdot. And potentially one of the most inspiring. Dare I watch a Tom Cruise movie?
I just recently ran across a problem with a shareware program I was evaluating. This may help you determine whether or not to use this particular method.
First, some brief back story. I set up my laptop with 3 user accounts, one for me, one for my wife, and an administrator account. I had my privs set to power user, and hers set to non admin. She kept trying to open the system clock for the calendar functionality - and was getting denied. She finally came to me in disgust and said fix it. I was lazy, made her a power user, and went on with my day instead of doing the right fix.
About two weeks ago I installed CMud, which has a 31 day trial period. Two days ago, I noticed that the system clock time was changed, inappropriately, to January 17th 2008 or something like that. I changed it back, and now can no longer open the program because the system clock has been updated during the evalution period. No work around available - I can't just decide I liked the software and purchase it even. This last part boggles the mind - if I liked the software enough to try and bypass the copy protection, wouldn't you still want me to be able to purchase the software?
The answer: Uninstall CMud + go back to zmud. (zmud is good enough for me, once upon a time it was so good that I bought two copies of it - one for me, one for a friend).
10 pages of advertisements, check
no printer friendly page link, check
no interest in reading this article, check.
No thanks slashdot. Next?
and continue the flamewar from below to boot...
Opera.
My undergrad marketing class confirmed everything I'd suspected.
What you're seeing there is the different between an undergrad class and a graduate level course like the GP took.
hrm. right there under adult content link on the right hand side. oh. you aren't a total farker. If you like fark, pay the $5 a month for information overload and more boobies than you can shake a stick at. Yes, that stick you sick bastard. /serious cat //serious thread ///slashies ftw