Wednesday, July 31, 2002

IBM kills Monday: We all stood in shock at the roll-out of the worst example of PR-fuelled gibberish ever created. We can all relax, IBM has bought out PwC Consulting and killed it's planned name change to 'Monday:'. I for one am dissapointed. It would have been much more exciting to see it die due to its own stupidity. I can imagine the discusion at IBM..."we have to buy them before the humiliation goes too far." On the other hand I can imagine the talk in the PwC Boardroom..."maybe someone will buy us and spare us the humiliation of going through with this." It's nice to see Big Blue step in and save us all from any further need to laugh. I would also hope that they go through and fire anyone involved in this decision. So, farewell Monday: Let this be your epitaph: WOKE UP MONDAY: GOT BOUGHT OUT FELL ON CEREMONIAL REBRANDING SWORD GOODBYE I need to bless The Register for inspiring and providing much of the humor in the post...mj 8:34:46 PM

HP invokes DMCA to quash bug report Hewlett Packard has threatened to use computer crime laws and the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act to muzzle a group of security researchers who unearthed a flaw with its Tru64 operating system. The threat comes in a letter to SnoSoft from HP Veep Kent Ferson warning that the security researchers "could be fined up to $500,000 and imprisoned for up to five years" for its role in publishing code that demonstrated the vulnerability, CNET reports. [The Register] Nice move HP! Nothing like a company trying to cover it's tracks with the hammer known as the DMCA. This is exactly why the DMCA needs to be revoked. A fine example of how both copyright and patent laws have become lawyer abused toys...mj 5:04:22 PM

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