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Thirsty Bear is fairly close to my work -- now that I know James hangs out there I'm going there more often in hopes of catching a glipse of James and his shirt ;-)

You're Mark Hurd.

Not sure if they're actually located in Marshall, TX. I found this public record:

INNOVA PATENT LICENSING, L.L.C.
16055 SPACE CENTER BLVD STE 235
HOUSTON, TX 77062-6212

Taxpayer Number: 32042021249

If anyone can get corporate officials' names and phone numbers that would be interesting.

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Live by the sword, die by the sword (or, in Microsoft's case, get a bunch of small cuts due to holding the sword wrong).

The name sounds like a disease you contract after not taking a bath for several months.

According to ROKSO the folks who run the Canadian Pharmacy run out of the Ukraine. I'd have to say they are the most annoying bastards I've ever seen, at least as far as spammers go. I'm waiting for the day when they get their come upppance. I hope I live to see it.

should be investigated by Congress -- just my opinion, but to force customers to pay an extra surcharge per month to buy the product should be illegal but only if it can be proved that all of the wireless providers colluded to force the customer into this racket. I think the odds of this being the case are high since every provider is perpetuating this scam.

Case in point: I already have a work provided wireless device that provides a data plan, I don't need to pay an extra monthly fee on my personal mobile phone for another data plan.

All of the wireless providers are requiring compulsary data plans in order to activate a smartphone or PDA now. It's my opinion that this should be illegal, but then I guess if it was a real lawyer would've started a class action lawsuit by now. I definately believe it enriches a small few and is not in the interest of consumers.

You free(3) the heap space associated with C and let the garbage collector do the rest!

Too often corporations pull out the "freedom" word when it suits them and then ignore it all other times. I think the word they really want is "control". For instance, what about Dmitry Sklyarov's freedom to publish security research at a conference? Adobe didn't seem to think much about freedom at that time.

"Consumer Watchdog is just responsible for all the massively negative press Google has been getting lately. "Is Google the next Microsoft?" "Is Google evil?" "Is Google too big?" All the tech blogs have had articles like these in the last six months."

FTFY

Microsoft has already been exposed using CWD in the past as part of their fake astroturfing attacks:

http://techrights.org/2009/05/04/consumer-watchdog-exposed/

I'm just saying, as with anything, always consider the source.

I use http://www.countryipblocks.net/ -- they seem to do a pretty decent job of keeping their database up-to-date. It will also provide the output in varying formats (net/mask, CIDR, ip range, etc).

Yeah, but it's also nice to be able to recognize the shills and nutters. Whenever I read a report or analysis written by Enderle, Lyons or Didio I immediately consider the opposite of whatever they claim might be true. Whenever I hear anything written by O'Gara I assume it's outlight lies and spin.