Excellent!

[unixronin]

The Senate voted by a 65-31 margin yesterday to protect firearms manufacturers against nuisance liability suits from the gun lobby for criminal use of safe and legally-sold firearms.  The law does not, as gun-control proponents have repeatedly claimed, protect manufacturers from selling inherently unsafe or defective products, or protect dealers who make illegal sales.  The liability suits it would prevent have been claimed to be "making firearms manufacturers responsible for their products", but are in fact simply a ploy to do with litigation that which the gun control lobby has failed to do by legislation: eliminate firearms ownership in the US.

In other news, Novell filed countersuit against SCO yesterday, citing two counts of breach of contract relating to the 1995 Asset Purchase Agreement between Novell and SCO (then Caldera Systems), and one of slander of title for claiming ownership of the Unix copyrights.  The Asset Purchase Agreement requires, among other things, that SCO return to Novell 95% of any license revenue from Unix System V, which Novell asserts SCO has failed to do in licensing contracts with Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.

And, it took less than 24 hours after its release on Monday for Microsoft's new Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy tool to be cracked and multiple methods of defeating it publicly posted.  The simplest method of defeating WGA is the following simple Javascript bookmarklet:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

The above is, of course, posted purely for academic interest.  I know none of my erudite, professional readers would ever have any reason to want to use such a thing.

Comments

[bbwoof.livejournal.com]

Yeah, turning it off usually defeats it...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

The Asset Purchase Agreement requires, among other things, that SCO return to Novell 95% of any license revenue from Unix System V, which Novell asserts SCO has failed to do in licensing contracts with Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.

Oops. All that revenue Microsoft gave them to beat up on IBM? You mean they gotta give it back? But they've already paid whatsisface...

I think SCO has just been ten-ringed, and is simply waiting to fall...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would be the moolah in question....

If I were an investor in SCO, I think I'd be shorting it right now.