* Posts by Ole Juul

2726 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007

Comcast busted for bagging BitTorrents (again)

Ole Juul

Who's Comcast?

Just goes to show... don't support the big guys.

Luckily companies like that don't come around here anyway. Cable providers only do cities because they can't cope with the long runs and sparse population in the mountains. In my area there is only one broadband provider and it's a mom and pop wireless operation with probably less than 2000 subscribers. When I go to pay my bill I just go to their house and give the cash to whoever answers the door. They know me by name. They call me back when I leave a message. There is mutual trust. That's the way it should be.

Serial typosquatter settles FTC charges

Ole Juul

Two seperate issues

There were separate civil and criminal prosecutions going on here. Zuccarini was jailed for 30 months for possession of child pornography which would make sense. However, the typosquatting is a completely different matter. This guy may be a complete turd, but there is nothing wrong with typosquatting as far as I'm concerned.

Spelling is a personal responsibility. I wouldn't mind learning to spell better than I do and I welcome criticism on the subject. For several reasons I always type my URLs into a search engine so bad spelling doesn't lead to odd sites in any case. If you enter your URLs directly, I think you should be willing to accept the consequenses of your actions. My take is, learn to spell, do what I do, or just lump it.

The Pirate Bay absconds with domain name of its nemesis

Ole Juul

Fair trade rules!

"anyone who brews beer in America should be prosecuted whenever their beer is smuggled to Saudi Arabia?" lol

Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista

Ole Juul

@Emmett Clifford

"The 1953 was a typo and should have been 1993. Prior to that it was all UNIX and for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. So I was around before MS. Guess my age and I'll sit on your face so that you may guess my weight as well.."

Prior to 1993, neither I nor any of my computer buddies were using *nix and we didn't work for NASA. For the ten years before 1993 (since the IBM PCjr) most of us were, in fact, running MS. Both Commodore and Atari were also very popular. By 1986 there were plenty of businesses using computers without UNIX. It seems there is more than a typo problem here. You're probably too young or too old to remember. However, if you're interested, this information is easily available by using Google. I'll pass on guessing your weight!

Ole Juul
Coat

Re: Keeps on ticking...

"..I bill by the hour. We would all be out of jobs if everything worked right out of the box..."

You can't be getting much business. I looked up "Anonymous Coward" in the phone book and you weren't listed.

Ole Juul

The product should cater to the customers

I think people have a right to a glitch free and fully functioning OS when they pay big money to a company that has decades of experience. It's obvious that MS is trying to control it's customers by making Vista the way it is. Perhaps the Dutch are starting to see the light.

On another subject: I noticed that there is an unusual number of people with Microsoft promo sounding talk posting on other forums regarding this. I wonder if MS is so desperate they are getting people to post for them. That would be pretty pathetic.

California court tilts towards mandating web accessibility

Ole Juul
IT Angle

More than meets the eye

I am shocked at the number of people who seem to think that computers are a visual medium. Where is that coming from? What ever happened to the concept of data processing?

Computers can be used for any medium you please, including visual, audio, mechanical, pulp and paper processing, you name it. Personally, for human interaction, I think the use of anything but text and numbers is mostly frivolous pap and often serves no real purpose other than to amuse simple minds. YMMV. We're talking about information technology. Right?

There may very well be a political side to this, but I'm glad that some people here understand that this story has a real IT angle and is not just about a minority group nor visual preference.

Ole Juul

This could be good for others too

The problem is always the use of the damned mouse which is impossible if you are blind. I can see quite well but I still think the mouse is the stupidest thing that ever hit the computer world. If more websites were usable with a text browser, I'd be happy.

Student suspended in gun rights email row

Ole Juul

@Jay_rm

"Have you, by chance, lived most of your life in a Socialist country?" No. I've lived much of my life in Canada which is full of right wing radicals, and recently I've been living in a seriously "red neck" rural area. I've learned to love them all anyway. The bottom line is, (unless you're hungry) the only thing you need a gun for is to kill people. I suppose I could have used one to get rid of the bear that destroyed half my apple tree last night, but that's another story. The old lady next door just chases the bears away when they come to her house, she doesn't need a gun either... and I don't piss her off. I just think there are better solutions than guns.... and that has nothing to do with Socialism. It's really a matter of survival.

To answer your other question. Yes, I think "law abiding firearms owners, in an area with a very high percentage of the population as firearms owners, are to be considered 'people in distress'".

Ole Juul

Help wanted

So, Hamline University have another kid with a gun. Judging from his rant, he does not seem any more stable than the first one. I hope the community takes the time and effort to help this one before it's too late. We all need to reach out to people in distress. That's what was missing with the first kid.

Australia to get 1,000 megawatt wind farm

Ole Juul

More on 2500 watts

This is what most people run around here if they don't use electric heating. So for 400,000 homes that would be a continous 1000 megawatts. It seems to me that the promoters are not telling the truth, since (according to previous posts) less than 50 percent of that output can be realized.

Actually, I think it comes down to the fact that supplying power "to" a given number homes is not the same as supplying "all" the power needed by those homes. 400,000 sounds better than say 150,000 which is probably more realistic. Using their logic a car battery could also supply power "to" 400,00 homes!

Lawmaker shows nudie pic to high school seniors

Ole Juul

This is common where I come from

My mother had tits... but then she wasn't from Ohio.

First RIAA file-sharing trial begins

Ole Juul

Get real

The RIAA is seeking over $1.2m in compensation! That's just rediculous. Even the RIAA has admitted that under a dollar per song is "in the ballpark" for compensation. Their antics remind me of the "Pants Judge" who wanted a million dollars compensation from a drycleaner for supposedly loosing his pants. We all loose when this sort of thing is taken seriously. I think these guys all belong in the same category as Paris Hilton. Then again, maby I'm being too easy on them ... Paris doesn't know any better.

Windows XP repair disk kills automatic updates

Ole Juul

Patch?!!!

If the roofers came back to me and said they wanted to install a new patch, I'd say WTF? I'd probably get pretty angry too, especially if they showed up in the middle of the night without asking me! When I write the cheque, I expect that to be the last of it. It's standard practice not to pay for something until it's finished. This whole Windows patch thing is just plain unprofessional, regardless of the reasons. Like with the roofers, I honestly don't care whose fault it is. I don't want to hear any reasons or excuses, and I don't want to see them again for a number of years. Of course if the work was done for free, I wouldn't have a reason to complain.

Oxygen pollution began earlier than we ever thought

Ole Juul

Re: The Earth is a garden

Thanks Dominic, for a very sensible perspective on the environmental issue. My take, however, is a little more radical.

It's those damned plants. Once they really got going, they just wouldn't stop reproducing. Eventually they got completely out of control and completely polluted the earth with their rotting waste while all the time spewing oxygen into the atmosphere until most other life forms were destroyed. The earth was never the same after that.

Fight back! Chop down a tree today and help save the earth! Actually, Christmas is my favourite time of year. I get to take one of those nasty trees into the house, dress it up like an idiot, and torture it until it finally dries up and dies. It's a very satisfying time of year for anyone who wants to do their bit to help save the earth.

So, what's the first rule of Reg Club?

Ole Juul

Numbers too

Don't use to to mean too or two ... it's too slashdot.

Produce-licking YouTubers attacked by 147-year-old American grocer

Ole Juul

I wonder ...

... if there really is a law suite. The kids' web site currently says they have only heard about the suite. It sounds like there was only one customer who complained and how would she have seen the video and known that it was A&P? There's something fishy here.

If A&P really are like that then they need to wake up to the reality of both kids and the internet. They'll loose against both.

All of world's biggest firms hit by typosquatting

Ole Juul

Cybersquatting is a good thing

Words are differentiated by their spelling. These guys don't know that? The alternative is to have one word for everything... that would solve the problem. Perhaps using a keyboard with only one button on it would be helpful too. Seriously though, cybersquatting is a good incentive for people to type better, we need more of it.

User seeks $1.4m from IBM for shoddy server packing

Ole Juul

The conditions are irrelevant

I've spent a fair amount of time with a fork lift moving all kinds of crazy things that you might find in the TV industry. In the end it doesn't really matter how difficult the conditions are or how something is packed... or not. The rules are always the same. Don't break anyting! You do whatever you need to do to accomplish that. If you break something, it's your own fault. However, for $1.4m one might suddenly forget that... but I'm sure the judge will remind them.

Climate change: looking for a haystack, not a needle

Ole Juul

What about reality?

There is a dirth of personal observation reported here. How many of the people posting here spend any time outside? I don't mean on a balcony or the street in a city, and similar insulated inviroments but actually outside where the ants bug you and there's some real life going on. If they did, they would see something which has not been seen within written history. This is probably not something which many city folk would know anything about, at least not first hand. Someone who sits in an apartment and watches TV and then takes a bus (or car) to work in a building is effectively living on another planet. Would such a person even notice if there are less frogs eggs or less fungi of certain kinds? I don't think so. Perhaps humans play little role in these changes, I'm not the one to tell, but you have to wonder what is going on and if there isn't something which can, or should, be done. The micro changes should really make you wonder about the macro situation. I, for one, am glad that there are people who are willing to put some thought into it. Certainly there are things which some of us need to do to adapt, regardless of the cause.

Is Chernobyl behind academic slump in Sweden?

Ole Juul

Stress and radiation

I think that radiation is not nearly as harmful as it is made out to be by many people. Another likely cause could be stress and worry about the radiation.

By the way, if anyone wants to see some really interesting pictures from Chernobyl, you should look at the site by Elena Vladimirovna, called "Ghost Town, Land of the Wolves". She rides her motorcycle there and takes pictures. This is really an extraordinary report by someone who actually spends time there.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

Google Adwords dive-bombed by American Airlines

Ole Juul

They could be up the "creek"

People have already pointed out the obvious, such as American Airlines is not really that famous. I certainly hadn't heard of it. Also the difference between "American Airlines" and "American airlines" although completely different concepts, is not normally differentiated by a search engine.

What has not been mentioned yet, is that "AA" is a vovel ligature similar to "AE" and "OE". This is much used in old English, and still in words like encyclopaedia (encyclopædia) or names like Aaron.

It is also very much current in scandinavian languages, although they more often use more modern symbols for those letters eg. Æ, Ø, and Å . The last three letters of the Danish alphabet are "ae", "oe". "aa", and the letter "aa" is also the name for creek. The double letters and the vovel ligatures are completely interchangable. Try typing "AA" or "Å" into www.google.dk and see what you get. Both symbols bring up American Airlines, probably because they paid for it, but there sure is a lot of other stuff!

I must say though, that if I typed "creek" into www.google.com and got "American Airlines" on the first results page, I'd really start to wonder.

Could Linux become the dominant OS?

Ole Juul

Some observations

It's interesting how some of the Windows supportes haven't tried Linux, even when they say they have. What is that all about?

I don't use Windows at home so I can't comment on how difficult it is to do specific things. I can, however, sit down at a Windows machine and browse the net or write a document, in the same fashion that I do on Linux. Why would that be any different? There are a lot of similarities. They are both following some popular mythical concept of how things are "supposed" to be. Specifically, the use of a complicated picture like GUI, the use of a pointing device requireing hand eye coordination and other unnescesary resources, and the insistance on using a "desktop". In general, making it look and work like some kind of game. (I hate games with a passion.) These concepts have contributed much to taking control away from the user and making "personal" computing a thing of the past. In Linux, if you want to do somehing in a non automated way, it becomes very difficult. Not because of the command line (that's easy for anyone who can type) but because the system is so complex. Even making small changes to my setup is beyond me. Such simple things as colour of various elements, and placement on the screen, require more skills than i am prepared to acquire. I am stuck with using applications to get anything done. I didn't use to have that problem with DOS and I'm still waiting for Linux to catch up ... but I don't think it will. Linux has gone off on the same tangent that Windows and everyone else has. The blind, unimaginative, insistance on using that stupid concept called "the desktop". This is now a world of pre done, no choice, applications only, computing. Most computer users don't actually touch the OS.

I really don't think it matters much what OS you choose, the average user is going to get the same lack of control. Where the differences lie, is in the attitudes and politics. My computing problems would probably not be be solved by moving to Windows, but I would be into a world of questionable ethics which I don't want to be part of. That's why I stick with Linux despite the problems that I have with it. More people are starting to think the same way.

PS: The title asked if Linux could (not would) become dominant. Yes, I think it "could", but it very well may not.

RIAA gets some class

Ole Juul

Re: Class action

Perhaps individual suits are better, but I think this approach will strengthen this particular case, help many who could not mount suits of their own, and set some good precedents for those that follow.

I'm hoping that eventually, many of those who have been charged already will be able to show a miscarriage of justice. I want to see this situation snowball. Maby I'm dreaming, but it's time for a change. Heystoopid got it right when he said that the RIAA "have been stealing from all recording artists...". That has got to stop.

Novell won't pull a SCO

Ole Juul

@Demian Phillips

Thanks for the clarification of copyrights and trademarks, but still, isn't it wrong for SCO (or Reuters) to be saying "SCO owns the UNIX operating system technology"?

Ole Juul

Why didn't Novell defend it's IP before this case?

Novell has known all along that it owns the UNIX trademark. Aparently it was right in the agrement and no court case should have been nescesary. The judge just looked at the paperwork and said it was simply a matter of law and implied that SCO would have known all along. I wonder why Novell hasn't pressed charges before this case came up. Maby I'm expecting things to happen too fast, but as of right now you can still see the SCO company profile advertised on Reuters as:

"The SCO Group, Inc. owns the UNIX operating system technology and is a provider of UNIX-based products and services."

Surely this cannot go on for much longer, can it? I guess you can't trust Reuters for this kind of information.

NASA weather error sparks global warming debate

Ole Juul

Politcs and science

I note a fair amount of confusion here. There is a difference between being a skeptic or downright denying something. So too, there is a difference between politics and science.

Politicians deny or affirm, scientists are skeptics.

God appears in eggplant slice

Ole Juul

Unscrupulous seeking gullible

I too have an inconsistent lack of capitalisation.

US wiretap plan will leave door open for spooks and hackers

Ole Juul

Spy games

I'm with Dillon Pyron: "If it's worth the NSA's time to look at it, it's worth my time to encrypt it." My communications are simply not the government's business.

Leslie figured out the bottom line when she says, that this has no use. Atleast not the advertised one. Terrorists are not nearly as stupid as the voting public and will just learn to use other methods like writing backwards or talking like a teenager - lol. My personal favourite is writing with vinegar on hard boiled eggs, but if they found out, they'd take vinegar off the shelves. There is no end to high tech or low tech spy games and they are simply barking up the wrong tree. It's obvious that this is just a ruse by spooks and politicians to spy on the public, empower themselves, and create work for the NSA. Are we heading into another MacArthur era? Will I soon get arrested for possesion of a hard boiled egg? Sometimes I'm glad that I'm old enough that I probably won't see where this is all going. I've seen this trend before and it didn't end well.

World's oldest person pops clogs at 114

Ole Juul

hobby?

"...put her longevity down to a good diet and plenty of kip, describing the latter as her "hobby"."

It seems to me that if you sleep a lot you miss all the action. Still, I think I'll give it a try. Give me a nudge when it's time for dinner will ya ....

Camera pole puts you in the frame

Ole Juul

That gives me an idea!

Why not just carry a mirror around on a stick! That way you can get continuous satisfaction.

I'm off to the patent office ...

ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel

Ole Juul

This whole discussion really shouldn't be happening

Mike Tester said: "MS have NEVER released ANYTHING that works properly!"

How can you say that? I still use MSDos6.22 on a daily basis and it works very well. Of course I only use the "kernel", having replaced everything else with non MS ustilities, but still, it's rock solid and lightning fast. One of the best things about it is that any virus infection is quickly noticable and easily found. In fact, I haven't had an infection since before 6.2 came out and my kid used to bring viruses home from elementary school. In those days they were mostly harmless boot sector viruses which we got used to fixing. My point is that it was simple enough to be under my control and not so complicated that the programmers didn't know what they were doing. MicroSoft used to write very good software. Of course, Mike is right, but I would say that it wasn't until MS went to a windowing system that things started going wrong. They got in over their heads and the software became unprofessional.

I don't even know what a modern virus looks like. When DOS became too difficult to use for the net, Linux was ready for simpletons like me and I started using that for interfacing with the "cruel world". I've never had any malware, that despite the huge number of vulnerabilities in Linux. Perhaps I'm just too stupid to get a virus, I don't know, but I've had a machine connected to the net 24/7 for a number of years now. I don't especially like Linux but I don't want to go backwards and be charged for it. I'm just not going to pay good money for an OS unless it can compete with DOS on a basic level so I use what I can get for free. I can't imagine paying for an OS and then having to deal with malware.

People who bought into the MS windows line of OSes seem to have experienced increasing problems. It really looks like MS, and operating systems in general, have developed to the point where no one knows how to operate them properly ... even the manufactures. It's very unprofessional to be trying to sell an OS which has problems that are beyond the programmers control. They're obviously atempting more than they are capabable of doing. Maby it's time to scale back to a level that matches their (and their customers) abilities.

Novell owns Unix copyrights after all

Ole Juul

Re: Subtitle

@A N Englishman.

"Can anyone explain to me what a Checkbook is? Is it a book in which you would keep a list of checks you have done?"

It's American for cheque booque...

which is where you keep cheques you haven't done :)

Ole Juul

Last hurrah

I see SCOs stock went up 6 cents before closing today. Things will probably look different in the morning! I'm no investment expert, but I imagine that the best bet for investors is to sell stocks as souveniers on Ebay.

Australia declares war on net porn

Ole Juul

Re: It's the parents fault if ...

"No parent should ever let their child go on the internet unsupervised, it's the IT equivalent of letting them play in traffic."

That is just not true. If, like me, you have ever seen your child get run over by a car you wouldn't say that.

"If parents supervise every net session, there's no way that children will ever see unsuitable material,"

With the amount of ill conceived or downright disingenious "educational" material out there, and gullible parents thinking that's OK ... I don't beleive that will work either. It certainly depends on how you define "unsuitable".

"If any law gets passed, it should be a law banning any child from using the internet at home without supervision,"

Perhaps we should ban all adults from using the net. After all it's the adults who post the "unsuitable material". However, I think there's a problem with that too. It just might not work.

In the end, I think it comes down to helping your kid by having an open mind and a positive attitude. Maby even a bit of trust. That would be a good thing to teach. The net is not nearely as dangerous as the street and a lot of "shoulds" are not really that helpful ... especially when it comes to other people's kids.

Pirate Party invades Utah

Ole Juul

Good omen

A picture of a pirate was found on a driveway in Virginia... probably an omen that the pirates were comming.

Orange launches new assault on English language

Ole Juul

"In the two weeks following the workplace ban in England ..."

Is uneployment now legislated at 100%, or do Englishmen all work from home?

Half of GPS users given duff information

Ole Juul

You still need to keep your eyes on the road

I think you need a pretty expensive unit to get really useful acuracy. I've got a $150 Magellan and if I go to town and back (about 12 miles), the lines don't match at all. If I had to use my GPS to follow the road, I'd fall off the first cliff! My neighbour does a lot of prospecting and he too finds that the regular GPS equipment is not accurate enough to lay out claims. Notably, there's a difference depending on the time of day.

Music industry rebuffed across Europe on file-sharing identifications

Ole Juul

This is refreshing news

In my little corner of Canada, the only ISP available is a small family business. I don't think they are related to anybody in the recording industry. Canada, however, is generally a pretty right wing place and, just like in the US, many people would consider filesharing as a matter of "public safety or national security". It's refreshing to see that Europeans can distinguish between civil and criminal law.

UK gov offers car CO2 rankings by class

Ole Juul

Quantity is reality - Percentage means nothing

The thing that governments usually ignore is QUANTITY. We need to stop talking about percentages and start considering just how much actual polution a car produces. No matter how poluting a car is, if you drive it half as far, then it will produce half the pollution. There are many ways to cut down. The largest amount of polution that a car produces is probably in it's production, so in many cases driving an old car is likely less poluting than getting new one, especially if you would get a hybrid.

When my neighbour goes to town, he drives a little small engine car with minimal pollution. Once a week or so, I hear him fire up the old rust bucket, oil spewing, needs a ring job, truck of his, and I can smell it in my house right away. However, the vehicle cost him nothing, and the way it is used, the fuel consumption (maby 5mpg!) is ACTUALLY very little because he only goes a couple of miles. Now, if that vehichle was taken off the road, he would have to get a new truck in order to do the things he needs like pick up firewood, machinery, etc. He wouldn't be able to afford a small car anymore and his OVERALL polution would skyrocket. The fact is that in many cases, government regulations just increase pollution because all they care about are percentages and not actual quantities.

Ole Juul

Make less trips - get a truck

It seems to me that the list is comprised of toys for people who are too lazy to ride a bike. I can't imagine what someone in the city would need a car for anyway. Around here people tend to drive pickups and larger trucks so they can carry more and make less trips, but then that's country life. Most city folk probably couldn't even get 10 chords of wood in their apartment if they tried.

RFID a 'technical blunder', report says

Ole Juul

RFID security

One problem with RFID is the lack of traditional security. There are few, if any, systems in place. Unauthorised, or undesirable, reading of the tags is quite possible, and likely. The signals can also be intersepted and retransmitted, so that a person reading the information could be misled. The work on RFID GUARDIAN at Vrie University is interesting. Check out: http://www.rfidguardian.org/

To quote from the site: "One such situation is unauthorized data collection, where attackers gather illicit information by either actively issuing queries to tags or passively eavesdropping on existing tag-reader communications.

Other attacks include the unwanted location tracking of people and objects (by correlating RFID tag "sightings" from different RFID readers), and RFID tag traffic analysis (e.g. terrorist operatives could build a landmine that explodes upon detecting the presence of any RFID tag). "

I suspect that if RFID becomes common, we will se a lot more theft as the effort becomes worthwile. It's a general problem with radio waves. They are just not private.

Microsoft pushes Office 2007 with 'try-before-you-buy'

Ole Juul

Soup de jour

A computer with *anything* preinstalled is a used machine because it's got someone else's stuff on it like when you get it at the flee market or junk shop. If you are buying a new computer, and the hard drive is even formatted, you are being ripped off. I think you can, and should, demand that a new computer be clean and empty and ready for a new owner just like when you buy a house or move into a new suite (flat). How this preinstalled thing got started, I don't know. It didn't use to be like that, at least in the PC world. It's like going to a restaurant and ordering "soup de jour" because that's your favourite kind. It's embarassing.

How to measure website success? Page views or time?

Ole Juul

Say goodbye ...

to the back button.

Pages will open in a new window and have no clickable links. We might also see built in delays to keep you there longer etc. etc.

Amazon.com sells empty Vista boxes for $200?

Ole Juul

It's for Linux users ...

Who don't want to install it, but feel a need to pay the Microsoft Tax.

Sucky software? So add a virgin

Ole Juul

It's not a feature ... it's a bug

From my perspective, this guy is part of the problem. He seems to want things done automatically. That is one of those things which makes software hard to use and understand. A user may not be part of the "in" crowd who "understands" those things and if he isn't, then those things become confusing, or insulting.

Google's insistance on serving up pages for my area has caused probelms for me when I'm on the phone to someone in another part of the world and we are not seeing the same search results. For a non programmer, that kind of software behaviour is just bullshit and makes the experience confusing.

Day-of-silence protest hits Net radio

Ole Juul

Re: Rodent's Derriere

"If you cant make it in the job you are doing, get another. I and thousands of others have done. Just dont give us a hard time when we kick back at the overinflated royalties. (Here, I include Microsoft and such like organisations) Must go and tape something now, Gary"

There are many different kinds of musicians and although many of them think of it (or at least try to make it) a job, that is typically not the primary motivation. This is not a homogenous group and many of them are not like you. Musicians are often not very professionl and do it because they feel it is a calling, and sometimes because they have no other choice. Some of the greatest contributors of the past, in fact, have had no other skills at all and could not get a regular job if their life depended on it. That is how it is in the world of art. We all benefit, but some unscrupilous people try to benefit more than others, and that is what this whole discussion is about. The "overinflated royalties" don't benefit most artists.

When you mention Microsoft, you can maby see what I (and others here) are talking about. MS is currently trying to collect royalties for work which has been developed by a community of "progamming artists" who will not see much, if any, of that money. We'll see how that one develops, but I don't think the world will benefit by Microsoft's involment here. Yes, that is how the world works, but maby we can make it a little better.

Ole Juul

Google is different?

Matt Bradley's comment above, "Profiting from other people's content", is interesting. What, in fact, is so different about how Google does business? They are profiting by everyone's content/ip and not paying any royalties. If they were just a search engine then fine, but they are selling advertising and making big bucks on the backs of their content providers (web page authors/artists) to whom they do not pay any royalties. Why is that?

PS: Here's an idea ... how about all web pages go silent on one day ... just to see how interested Google would be in doing some negotiation?

Defamation lawsuit seeks to unmask anonymous cowards

Ole Juul

Difficult times

These are just kids. Many people mature later than was common in the past. The fact that they managed to get all the way to law school without growing up is just a sign of the times. However, a legal system that allows students to sue each other for school yard insults is downright pathetic and hints at serious problems with society. It's no wonder these kids are having trouble finding their way.

UK firm pays biggest ever fine over 'pirate' software

Ole Juul

I don't get it

Maby the pound is worth more than I thought but Microsoft's recent fine for piracy looks bigger to me. I refer to news stories such as the following:

"Microsoft hit with $1.5 billion patent verdict | Software giant is ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent for infringement of patents related to MP3 audio technology ..."

When is piracy not piracy?