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.

But I've seen their eyes light up at 10's and 20's.

Is that this case is now before a jury that knows absolutely nothing about SCO's past history (as is with any jury trial I guess). In the pretrial hearings SCO was asking that any juror that had a college degree be disqualified. What I think we are going to see here is a plaintiff that will tell a sob story about those mean Novell and IBM corporations that ruined their businesses and lives. How their stock price was driven down into the ground until they were delisted, how they lost all their customer base, how they lost their good name in the market, how they had to start eating ramen and mac everyday, etc. etc.

The point being is that anyone who has observed this case from the beginning (and who is not paid by Microsoft or SCO) has mostly all come to the same conclusion: That SCO are corporate raiders looking to cash in on the success of Linux. Everyone, including some inside SCO have also come to the conclusion that no parts of Linux infringe upon anyone's proprietary code or was misappropriated.

This trial is three weeks long. It disturbs me that those who have not had a chance to be privy to SCO's dishonesty and malice could possibly side with them.

Yes, that and she places a great amount of value on her privacy. People should try and respect that of course.

What Maureen did was deplorable and for that she forever tainted her reputation as a journalist. The Internet never forgets.

Can she? Sure, you can effectively sue anyone you want in this country for just about any reason you can dream up. Would she win? Who knows. But the truth is PJ has way too much class and dignity to draw out a fight in the court systems for this. In every article she writes she always takes the high ground and always attempts to point out the FACTS of a case and uncover the truth. She puts a great deal of emphasis on truth -- taking great pains to uncover all details and facts of a particular argument.

Conversely, at every opportunity, SCO has used sneaky, underhanded, backroom tactics. They have used rumor, inuendo, lies and gossip. The fact that these folks are LDS mormons freak me out because they are the exact opposite of what I always knew about mormons.

In all seriousness, I'm proud to live in a Microsoft and Apple-free household.

Maybe someday when they realize how harmful DRM really is I'll take another look.

Nonsense like this isn't convincing me I'm wrong.

Bye.