If I were you I'd leave your beasts at home in a cage. But in all seriousness, don't give these guys any ideas.

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C. S. Lewis

I've only been able to find photo stills on the link provided (goes to flickr). Has anyone else found the video or sound recordings provided at that link?

liked this.

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