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New beer brand: "Fucking Hell"-> 0

Submitted by CaraCalla on Wednesday March 31 2010, @10:05AM

CaraCalla writes "Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" reports that the European trademark office has approved "Fucking Hell" as trademark for a new beer brand (Goolge translation). "Fucking" in this case refers to the Austrian town of Fucking near Salzburg and "Hell" translates to "of light color" and is a common German denominator for lager beer. The court rules that "registration of the brand cannot be prevented just because it has an ambiguous meaning in a different language"."
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Do you leave your cell phone on while you sleep? 0

Submitted by CaraCalla on Tuesday August 28 2007, @02:11PM

CaraCalla writes "() Yes
() Yes, and I'll strangle the person who dares waking me up, Homer style!
() No, never
() I forward incoming calls to Cowboy Neal"

What is your favourite filesystem?

Submitted by

mu22le

on Friday February 23 2007, @09:52AM

mu22le writes "What is your favourite filesystem?

ext2/ext3

reiserfs/reiser4

xfs

jfs

fat32

ntfs

"

Alleged spammer tries to take Spamhaus.org, foiled

Submitted by norml on Friday February 23 2007, @08:49AM

norml writes "Last year, electronic marketing firm e360insight sued the anti-spam blocklist Spamhaus in U.S. District Court over being included on the Spamhaus website as an alleged spammer. Since Spamhaus is a UK company, the jurisdiction of a U.S. Court may be questionable, but Spamhaus found (the hard way) that the court was still willing to enter a default judgment. e360insight then attempted to take Spamhaus.org by using the US Marshall service to try to seize it from its domain registrar, Tucows, but failed on a technicality.

Sadly, the latest development is that the US Federal Court in Illinois has granted e360's motion to enter its judgment against Spamhaus in the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi, allowing the seizure from Tucows, which maintains offices there for one of its products.

This would be bad news. However, Spamhaus hasn't been sitting around idly waiting to be crushed by the U.S. legal system. When Tucows was served, e360 had the nasty shock of discovering that Tucows was no longer the registrar for Spamhaus. Spamhaus.org has now been registered through Gandi in France. We're pretty sure that the French aren't about to hand over a UK company's domain registration due to a U.S. judgment.

The Spamhaus guys can be found to be going "neener, neener, neener!" in news:news.admin.net-abuse.email in response to e360's posting there.

http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement.las so?ref=3 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2006 102700261694 http://www.e360insight.com/news.php"

Did Microsoft buy Kazakhstan?

Submitted by on Friday February 23 2007, @04:49AM

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's open letter on Interoperability, Choice and Open XML is mocked by Opera's CTO in a CNET article titled Microsoft's amusing standards stance. Microsoft claims that governments wants a "choice" among standards.

Which countries? Is it Kazakhstan by any chance? Kazakhstan recently joined the relevant ISO group. In the past, consultants paid by Microsoft have joined standardization groups and become sympathetic voices. Are they buying countries this time?
Further, Microsoft's technical contributions to standards — and in particular Jean Paoli's (who co-authored the open letter) contributions to W3C — is questioned:

One of the authors of that submission was Jean Paoli. It is unlikely that he did much of the technical work on XSL, and he was probably listed for political reasons. Similarly, he was listed as an editor of the XML specification after Microsoft made some phone calls.
The author is not a fan of ODF, though, calling it a "memory dump with angle brackets around it". Instead, he suggests an advanced document format based on HTML and CSS that can be viewed in common browsers."