Amen (and mod parent up).
There is another interesting thing for disrupted users - service was only supposed to be stopped for sumdomains on the court list or subsequently found to be hosting malware. So if your service is now stopped, MS are effectively publicly asserting that you are a malware host (and hence possibly a Doe defendant in the suit). If you aren't hosting malware, looks like potential defamation by MS as well...
The Ex-Parte motion and TRO has to be fololowed by real court action. You should be able to file your own Amicus brief to the court if affected by this action - or maybe as part of a group e.g. through EFF if they are interested.
If several thousand individuals and businesses file briefs that their subdomains were not of the malware list and were not hosting malware and the MS ceased service causing them damage and loss... then the court might take some notice. might.
Ruling is here: http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com...
There is a lot of it.
First check your sub domain is not on the list for which they are allowed to fail to return a response, see http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com...
- if so, they are accusing you directly of hosting malware, probably best check that out first...
Otherwise, if you are not on that list then it looks to me like they are violating the order if they are failing to return response for your subdomain. You would need to collect evidence (failed dns resolutions etc.), and evidence of your costs (alternative service provision, trips to check security manually, don't forget to charge your time at normal daily rate... etc.) and then you could sue them - since they have UK presence. Class action is not an option (usually in the UK) but small claims is, although it costs, but it may be worth it depending on how much damage they have done you. Remember you are not challenging the US court order but rather MS failure to deliver continued dns service to subdomains not on the court order (as it implies they will). If you are UK based and since MS has UK presence, UK court is probably correct venue. If (and IANAL) this is feasible, then it would be best if lots of affected people did it at once - since like most courts MS has to file defence / turn up, or they lose, and if there are a _lot_ of cases all at once...
Before small claims court you are supposed to try and resolve the issue and there are some rules (letter before action, http://www.justice.gov.uk/cour...) - basically you can start writing complaint letters to MS in the UK (where you may sue) and cc MS in the US, and you can start costing them lawyer time right now, for very little cost and essentially no risk to yourself.
Or maybe talk to the EFF, they might get involved in the US because if MS have ceased service to legit users not on the list in the order and not hosting malware, then they may be in violation of their own court order. EFF might want to get involved at next stage and submit Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of innocent users.
* and ? are illegal characters in windows filenames, which prevents this. As is
And of course Windows has other idiosyncrasies. Nothing is perfect.
frustrated by the lack of consideration of style in the medical device development process. Despite all the progress made in other areas, the devices still look more or less like a "wooden stick." Bender wants to challenge what we think is possible with prosthetics.
"Bite my shiny, metal ass!"
[sorry, someone had to say it...]
Someone called Paul McArthur does, in fact, have a bunch of patents in this area:
http://www.google.com/patents/...
https://www.google.com/search?...
if it's the same Paul McArthur, then the answer is "yes they do have a patent".
Whether you can actually build what is in the marketing or the patent is another matter entirely.
Probably only in beta...
Maybe it came already installed... sounds awfully like one that does (just buy the phone from the ad in the web page...):
Ditto, can place it to summer 1988. The VAXStations (must have been a 2000 based on the date) were very impressive (when you were used to washing-machine sized VAXen). Wasn't allowed to play with it much (at all) though.
Then it was another year of green-screens (terminals + mainframe) at college before they threw out the old mainframe and replaced with HP-UX boxes. As someone else said - Athena Widgets and TWM (in our case apparently motif was too expensive).
Installing SLS (and later Slackware) from floppies and spending hours tweaking XConfig and praying you weren't about to fry your monitor was two or three years later.
Much like Windows XP. But try telling the geniuses around here who think it's just a matter of buying everyone a new PC.
Nobody round here thinks that - here we all think it's just a matter on sticking [[insert flavour of the month Linux distro]] CD and clicking install. Because it really is that easy to rejuvenate your old XP machine, and all that software you had before has a new free replacement that you just need to learn. If there are any missing features or applications then you didn't really need them because if they were useful there would be a free software equivalent by now. Same for you old files if they won't convert.
Fact that your old XP box is probably less powerful than your phone, uses 100s (if not 1000s) of times as much power and the electric savings alone would probably pay for a replacement inside 2 or 3yrs isn't relevant, it just _must_ be the hardware upgrade cost that's the problem, and Linux fixes that... It can't possibly be that people actually rely on loads of software that runs on XP, because XP is so old and rubbish...
nobody saw Logon's Run here? Am I that old...?
You might be. I certainly am. I fondly remember the movie but didn't think the spin-off TV series was all that good.
Ditto. Of course the TV series didn't have Jenny Agutter minus clothing, which made it instantly much more forgettable...
"Hi, I am Eugene Goostman, 13yr old boy from Ukraine. I haz some networks, can I help ?"
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
