He's screwed ...

AP - A naked man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after telling police he had a screwdriver in his buttocks. The man was lying on a tree stump masturbating beside a nature path near the El Cerrito Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday, police said.

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Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:10 /Humor | 0 writebacks | permanent link

I'm not sure what to think about this - patents can certainly be a two edged sword, and M$ has as much to fear from them as it does to gain. So one interpretation is that this could be a sort of "Declaration of Truce" to avoid an all out legal war, which would benefit no one except the lawyers.

But still given the level of FUD generated by Microsoft against various open source projects on the basis of IP rights, one has to wonder about their motivation. I'm guess I'm just gonna hope for the best.

By declaring a "patent peace" with Novell Linux, did the software company just declare patent war with the open-source realm?

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Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:57 /Copywrongs | 0 writebacks | permanent link

I guess the headline just got me: what else would a "research society" do? I mean, I could see something like "Research Society Holds Party", or "Research Society Conducts Wedding" but this is a bit like a headline saying "Men Are Male"...

A group of Penn State students sat in the basement of an abandoned building with no lights on and listened for ghosts this weekend, using an electronic device to help them detect "spirit voices," the Daily Collegian reports. They did not hear anything.

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:02 /Humor | 0 writebacks | permanent link