Topics on businesses, good and bad.
The DMCA (the Draconian Media Clobbering Act… sorry, I mean the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has been used for some pretty jaw-droppingly stupid things since it was passed. This is just one of them, but it’s an important one, because the court just told copyright holders that they will be punished if they demand that …
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I ran across this quote on the Tools For Thought blog (which is rapidly becoming a new favorite of mine): From the film Roger Dodger: Nick: Like, what do you do all day? Roger: What do I do all day? I sit here and think of ways to make people feel bad. Nick: I thought …
The head of Project Badger (at the much larger company that bought it a few years ago) recently moved on to other duties in the company. We talked briefly just before he did, and he said that he’d learned a lot from me. I was startled, but I figured that was just a stock corporate-speak …
At the end of my last iPod Touch entry, I mentioned that I was going to try jailbreaking the Touch so I could load music onto it from Linux, instead of relying on a VMware Windows machine. I did so. Everything seemed to work with no problem, but after I loaded any song into it, …
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If you have any sympathy at all for Microsoft, you’ve gotta wince at this story. It’s not the first time something like that has happened either… on a trip to Toronto a few years ago, I saw an absolutely HUGE electronic billboard — which was showing a gigantic Windows error message-box instead of the ads …
As I’m not an MS geek, I couldn’t refute the headline any better than the article does.
I’m on the phone now to Dell, trying to find out about the technician who’s supposed to be here today. Dell’s website is useless; I received an e-mail giving me explicit instructions for getting a status update from it, but when I jump through all the hoops, all it says is “Error retrieving results. Please …
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For those uber-geeks who are still following the ridiculous SCO-versus-Novell lawsuit, it looks like the end is (finally!) near: in a stunningly apropos reversal, SCO (which instigated the lawsuit) has been ordered to pay Novell for violating their rights. They probably won’t have the money, but it’s a moral victory, at least.
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
I’ve been saying since April or so that Apple really wanted to avoid going to court over Psystar (the Hackintosh maker) because it would open up a huge can of legal worms for Apple, but apparently most legal people think that Apple will win the case without even trying. This post gives some good reasons …
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