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Lindows ordered to change name (Dec 13 2003 08:14 GMT) - Microsoft has ordered that Lindows.com change the name of it's or it will bankrupt the company and many of it's vendors. The threat comes after Judges in Finland and Sweden have granted Microsoft preliminary motions to force Lindows to stop using the name due to it's similarity to Windows, the OS by Microsoft, though the US case is still in the preliminary stages and an injunction was denied. the threat and legal decisions have followed Michael Robertson as he travelled across Europe, and Microsoft says that it will not stop with those two countries, that France and the Netherlands are next on it's list. Microsoft claims the suits and injunctions are not meant to kill competition, and that Lindows is infringing on their intellectual property rights. |
The Obvious?
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The very least (Dec 13 2003 08:13 GMT) - “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under... |
draconic
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one lovesong (Dec 13 2003 08:12 GMT) - pale belly, high and round— turning, half-smiling and the winter-honed stars are alone for my eyes. in a vast and... |
a preponderance of evidence
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Creative Commons Anniversary Party (Dec 13 2003 08:11 GMT) - One Party? Coming right up. I'll be at the Creative Commons Anniversary party, how about you? Your chance to meet me, or - since I am just a small fish in the wild waters of webbified words - Larry Lessig, Joi Ito, and a bunch of other cool cats. Yours truly will, as usual, hide behind a pillar, shoot pictures, and then publish them under some clever pseudonym somewhere else to avoid being prosecuted or beaned over the head. |
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Hong Kong law firm KM publication (Dec 13 2003 08:11 GMT) - Excited utterances has linked to a KM publication published by a Hong Kong law firm. To quote: BiziLaw launches the first issue of Knowledge Management for Law Firms. Part 1: The Role of Technology in Knowledge Management... |
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Hong Kong law firm KM publication (Dec 13 2003 08:11 GMT) - Excited utterances has linked to a KM publication published by a Hong Kong law firm. To quote: BiziLaw launches the first issue of Knowledge Management for Law Firms. Part 1: The Role of Technology in Knowledge Management... |
DR Nyheder
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Udbredt sexchikane blandt skolebørn (Dec 13 2003 08:11 GMT) - Svenske skolepiger må i stigende grad finde sig i at blive befølt på brysterne, i skridtet og på bagdelen af jævnaldrende drenge, viser en svensk undersøgelse. |
DR Nyheder
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Kunststøtten mere retfærdig (Dec 13 2003 08:11 GMT) - Efter lang tids rumlen om statens kunststøtte er kulturminister Brian Mikkelsen klar til at at sikre, det han kalder "en mere retfærdig og gennemsigtig dansk kunststøtte". |
orange haired boy
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PETA gets a lump of coal... (Dec 13 2003 08:10 GMT) - ...for Christmas. Normally I would post about something like this...but it's so damn funny. This site is not work appropriate. Thank you PETA for helping to RUIN Christmas for us all! |
Mark Michaelis' Weblog
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Student Finds Largest Known Prime Number (Dec 13 2003 08:09 GMT) - I found this story interesting because if the immensity of the prime number discovered (6,320,430 digits long) and the use of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search program, something I actively participated in for some time a several years ago. P.S. |
Politics in the Zeros
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YANIEB (Yet Another Nasty Internet ... (Dec 13 2003 08:07 GMT) - YANIEB (Yet Another Nasty Internet Explorer Bug) While Microsoft snoozes A new, potentially critical flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser has been disclosed throughout public forums, while Redmond has yet to issue a single security bulletin for the month of December. Oh heck Redmond, no need to rush... The basic premise behind the IE flaw is "URL Obfuscation" "Normally when this attack is executed, the URL looks similar to: http://www. |
JS Online
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Ethics Board wants charges vs. George (Dec 13 2003 08:05 GMT) - The state Ethics Board on Friday recommended criminal prosecution of former state Sen. Gary R. George, saying he used state employees for personal business and campaign work, and failed to report several hundred thousand dollars of outside income. |
JS Online
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Treatments cut short for cancer patients (Dec 13 2003 08:05 GMT) - A new study of 20,000 women with early breast cancer has found that more than half did not receive the recommended schedule of chemotherapy. That deviation may have put them at risk for worsening of the disease or recurrences that could have been avoided. |
JS Online
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Health care cost-control effort advances (Dec 13 2003 08:05 GMT) - A group of municipalities that joined forces earlier this year to fend off soaring health insurance costs is gathering steam just as a new year in which their employees' health care costs are predicted to rise anywhere from 15% to more than 30% approaches. |
JS Online
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Doyle urges limits on campaign issue ads (Dec 13 2003 08:05 GMT) - Madison - Saying the time is right for Wisconsin to enact responsible campaign finance reforms, Gov. Jim Doyle on Friday asked Republican legislators to support legislation that would regulate so-called "issue" ads that third-party groups run to influence elections. |
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