Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
For at least 2-3 years, including on this blog, I have been pointing out the hypocrisy resulting from the commercialization of open-source software, including the FSF selling out to special interests, TPM in the Linux kernel, the NSA winning a “no-bid contract” of sort into the Linux kernel’s remote attestation features, remote attestation in Linux [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: advocacy, apple, blu-ray, bsd, clayton act, cloud computing, cola, computers, contracts, copyright, corporate interests, corruption, cracking, crooked, culture, deals, digital restrictions management, drm, eben moglen, eric raymond, espionage, esr, evil, floss, foss, free software, freedom, fritz hollings, fsf, gnu, government, gpl, gplv3, greed, hacking, halliburton, hollywood, hypocrisy, ibm, immunity, intel, isp, kernel, lagrande, lawsuits, lawyers, leasing, liberty, licensing, linux, mac, mafia, mafiaa, microsoft, mpaa, no-bid contracts, nonprofits, nsa, nsfw, open-source, openbsd, os x, palladium, politics, purity, remote attestation, reputation, riaa, richard stallman, rico act, rms, selinux, sell out, selling out, slackware, sleazy, slut, software, special interests, spy, taint, tcg, tcpa, telephone companies were pardoned by an opposing political party for felony, tpm, treacherous computing, tricks, trolling, txt, virus, wake up, whore, wiretapping | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 15th, 2010
I most likely didn’t post this here before, as it doesn’t turn up in a search. But I discovered this goofy act of plagiarism a long time ago: Rick Springfield, 1981: Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” The Coca-Cola Company, 1993: Always Coca Cola
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: 1980s, 1981, 1990s, 1993, 80s, 90s, advertising, bones, business, caffeine, capitalism, cavities, classic rock, coca-cola, coca-cola company, coke, cola, commercials, copying, copyright, corporate america, dentist, funny, hooks, jesse's girl, jessie's girl, joke, mtv, music, music video, nothing darth, osteoporosis, plagiarism, rick springfield, ripoff, rock, rot, soda, sugar, teeth, television, they all sound the same, tooth, tv, video, youtube | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
These quizzes have been around for ages, but I haven’t been to BBSpot since way before xcopfly.com came into existence. So I took a bunch of these quizzes again. Which OS are You? Which File Extension are You? How White and Nerdy Are You? Which Caffeinated Beverage [...]
Filed: Uncategorized | Tagged: 1980s, 1990s, 419 scam, 419 spam, 80s, 90s, accountant, ai, amiga, amiga os, balls, bbspot, beverage, blog quiz, blog test, blogs, caffeine, caps, caps lock, cola, comedy, commodore, commodore amiga, file, file extension, flac, funny, games, geek, internet, joke, jolt, jolt cola, microsoft, money laundering, money transfer, mp3, msn, music, nerd, nerdy, nigerian scam, nigerian spam, nsfw, ogg, oil, parody, petroleum, phishing, prolog, quizzes, ripoff, scam, site, soda, spam, web, weird al, white, white and nerdy | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
I ordered a Whopper with large fries, and like all fast food restaurants, large fries come with the ridiculously large soda you keep in the fridge and finish within two days. The Burger King I went to had a public soda dispenser (i.e., not behind the cashiers). The following appeared on my plastic soda cup: [...]
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