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Woman Trademarks Name and Threatens Sites Using It 273

Posted by samzenpus from the keep-my-name-out-of-your-mouth dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Be careful mentioning Dr. Ann De Wees Allen. She's made it clear that she's trademarked her name and using it is 'illegal... without prior written permission.' She even lists out the names of offenders and shows you the cease-and-desist letter she sends them. And, especially don't copy any of the text on her website, because she's using a bit of javascript that will warn you 'Copyright Protect!' if you right click on a link."

Comment Re:Not a tax scam (Score 1) 1505

by planetralph (#27823723) Attached to: Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance

"When the controllers of the means of production fail to keep the means of production working properly, smart people look to take over the means of production."

Smart people are always looking to take over the means of production. More than 40 years ago, The UAW took over the means of production for Autos by conspiring with management of the big three to create an effective monopoly. It took this long for the monopoly to redistribute all the wealth flowing from the huge technology lead and the capital that had been built up when we had a dynamic, competitive, innovative auto industry. Now they are looking to the taxpayers to keep the money flowing.

The rule of law and property rights is what keeps smart people from doing much more harm than good when they try to take over the means of production.

My take on the Chrysler bailout is here: http://planetralph.blogspot.com/2009/05/chrysler-bankruptcy-good-liquidation.html

Comment safe2read.com (Score 1) 489

by planetralph (#25170773) Attached to: Good Email For Kids?
Safe2read is a whitelist based service where kids e-mail gets forwarded to you unless sender or receiver is on a whitelist you maintain. I've used it for a couple of years for my kids. Works okay, but my teenager used it to set up a myspace account. Mail from MySpace is scrambled and you need your e-mail to close or modify the MySpace account! Safe2read tech support was totally unreasponsive, so I can't fully recommend them.
Supercomputing

Submission + - Student and professor build budget supercomputer (calvin.edu)

Submitted by Luke
Luke writes: This past winter Calvin College professor Joel Adams and then Calvin senior Tim Brom built Microwulf, a portable supercomputer with 26.25 gigaflops peak performance, cost less than $2,500 to construct, becoming the most cost-efficient supercomputer anywhere that Adams knows of. "It's small enough to check on an airplane or fit next to a desk," said Brom. Instead of a bunch of researchers having to share a single Beowulf cluster supercomputer, now each researcher can have their own. What would you do with a personal supercomputer?
Sun Microsystems

Submission + - Sun's Trading Symbol Going from SUNW to JAVA

Submitted by Mortimer.CA
Mortimer.CA writes: Straight from Jonathon Schwartz's weblog, Sun is changing their ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA: 'JAVA is a technology whose value is near infinite to the internet, and a brand that's inseparably a part of Sun (and our profitability). [...] To be very clear, this isn't about changing the company name or focus — we are Sun, we are a systems company, and we will always be a derivative of the students that created us, Stanford University Network is here to stay. But we are no longer simply a workstation company, nor a company whose products can be limited by one category — and Java does a better job of capturing exactly that sentiment than any other four letter symbol.'

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