Chicago's Cloud Gate

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Chicago's Got That Sinking Feeling

Chicago's Got That Sinking Feeling 05/21/2004 01:04 PM
CBS News May 21 2004 4:58PM GMT

Chicago's Sears Tower to Go Wireless

Chicago's Sears Tower to Go Wireless 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
InnerWireless plans to support wireless access throughout the Sears Tower, even in the elevators: The company will build a network that will offer Wi-Fi networks or cellular networks throughout tenant offices if they want it. But it must first make deals with the cellular operators to extend their coverage in the building. InnerWireless sounds a lot like RadioFrame, a Craig McCaw company that's been around for ages. RadioFrame sells a box that can be deployed in offices that users can essentially slide radios for any kind of network into. The platform can offer Wi-Fi and cellular coverage from a single device. A few years back the Sears Tower was having trouble keeping full of tenants. This may be one effort to draw tenants in. It seems that more office buildings are making themselves Wi-Fi-ready, which may be a major selling point for companies that don't have the IT staff to build their own wireless networks. Also, in this case, cellular coverage in the elevators is probably a bonus because the building is so huge it probably takes forever to get in and out of....

Trying LaptopLane at Chicago's O'Hare
Airport

Trying LaptopLane at Chicago's O'Hare
Airport 12/24/2004 12:37 PM
During my 3.5 hour layover in Chicago, I'm trying out this LaptopLane workspace and service. It's not too bad, but is a little pricey. I should get offline soon. 65 cents/minute adds up quickly! I know there's a Yahoo display somewhere in this airport that has (I think) free Wifi, but I'll be damned if anyone here can tell me what terminal it's in. That leads me to believe it's not in Terminal 1. Oh, well. Off to Ohio soon....

Chicago's emergency call center suffers
heat exhaustion

Chicago's emergency call center suffers
heat exhaustion 07/23/2004 03:00 PM
911 down, 311 up

Chicago's mayor outlines elaborate
camera network for city

Chicago's mayor outlines elaborate
camera network for city 09/10/2004 02:36 PM
link 2000 cameras .. ABC News/local

abclocal.go.com/wls/news/090904_ap_ns_camera.html
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Chicago's Ravinia Festival Web site
opens on high note as IdeaStar
orchestrates new e-ticketing system.

Chicago's Ravinia Festival Web site
opens on high note as IdeaStar
orchestrates new e-ticketing system. 08/12/2004 02:51 AM
IdeaStar Inc. has built a powerful new e-commerce Web site, for the Ravinia Festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The new site includes a real time ticketing, content management, a dynamic interactive events calendar, store front, additional information and more. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

Chicago's public sculpture can't be
photographed by the public

Chicago's public sculpture can't be
photographed by the public 02/07/2005 02:07 AM
Cory Doctorow: Chicago spent $270 million on its Millennium Park, placing a big public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the middle of it, bought with public money. Woe betide any member of the public who tries to photograph this sculpture, though: it's a copyrighted sculpture and Chicago is spending even more money policing Chicagoans who try to photograph it and make a record of what their tax-dollars bought.

If I were them, I'd ask for my money back. What kind of jerk sculptor sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for scrap. Then they should fire the politician who signed a purchase contract that reserved the photographic rights and run him out of town on the same rail. Between the artist's greed and the procurement officer's malfeasance, this is about the vilest display of human venality I've heard of all day.

The copyrights for the enhancements in Millennium Park are owned by the artist who created them. As such, anyone reproducing the works, especially for commercial purposes, needs the permission of that artist.

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Gate

Gate 06/06/2005 12:08 AM

« Cryptonomicon gate on Fredrikinkatu. I called it this after I remembered that I had seen similar symbols in Stepheson's Baroque Cycle which were from John Wilkins' Philosophical Language. »

It was a long, long weekend in spite of not much drinking or partying, but included an unexpected houseguest from the US and I'm still trying to recover. I used to be young and spontaneous and now I'm just old and cranky when the rituals that get me through the day are disturbed. In an attempt to be hostess to the houseguest who travelled 4,000 miles where others failed, I finally managed to see the somewhat legendary expat junk food store in the lower level of Kämp Galleria and I am now convinced that I am, in fact, in the wrong line of work judging by the prices. I should open a shop called "Pimp My Crack" in Hakaniemi filled with crap from the US and the UK or maybe a Krispy Kreme store. The first one is always free...

Out of the closet and behind the gate

Out of the closet and behind the gate 04/30/2004 07:59 AM
The first gated community marketed at gays and lesbians is under construction in a small Florida town. Will it be a queer utopia -- or one more sign of the fragmentation of America?

Standing at the Gate

Standing at the Gate 05/05/2004 05:03 PM
Churchill Downs' earnings projections fall flat.

Web Earth Gate

Web Earth Gate 01/10/2004 04:57 AM
some progress

Gate 88 Mar19/05

Gate 88 Mar19/05 04/05/2005 11:43 PM
A fast-paced, frenetic blend of real-time strategy and 2D space shooter.

For Whom the Gate Tolls?

For Whom the Gate Tolls? 06/24/2004 06:36 AM
For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to Free the Refereed Research Literature Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now
http://www .ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm

ABSTRACT:
All refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be interconnected by citation, author, and keyword/subject links, allowing for unheard-of power and ease of access and navigability. Successive drafts of pre-refereeing preprints will be linked to the official refereed draft, as well as to any subsequent corrections, revisions, updates, comments, responses, and underlying empirical databases, all enhancing the self-correctiveness, interactivity and productivity of scholarly and scientific research and communication in remarkable new ways. New scientometric indicators of digital impact are also emerging (http://opcit.eprints.org) to chart the online course of knowledge. But there is still one last frontier to cross before science reaches the optimal and the inevitable: Just as there is no longer any need for research or researchers to be constrained by the access-blocking restrictions of paper distribution, there is no longer any need to be constrained by the impact-blocking financial fire-walls of Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View (S/L/P) tolls for this give-away literature. Its author/researchers have always donated their research reports for free (and its referee/researchers have refereed for free), with the sole goal of maximizing their impact on subsequent research (by accessing the eyes and minds of fellow-researchers, present and future) and hence on society. Generic (OAi-compliant) software is now available free so that institutions can immediately create Eprint Archives in which their authors can self-archive all their refereed papers for free for all forever (http://www.eprints.org/). These interoperable Open Archives (http://www.openarchives.org) will then be harvested into global, jointly searchable "virtual archives" (e.g., http://arc.cs.odu.edu/). "Scholarly Skywriting" in this PostGutenberg Galaxy will be dramatically (and measurably) more interactive and productive, spawning its own new digital metrics of productivity and impact, allowing for an online "embryology of knowledge." This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

PC Spies at the Gate

PC Spies at the Gate 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Use of software that monitors Internet activity without a user's knowledge -- termed "spyware" -- is on the rise. The most pervasive use of spyware appears to be in P2P file-sharing apps, such as Kazaa. But many users seem blissfully unaware of spyware's reach. Can PC spies be stopped?

XP SP2 stalls at starting gate

XP SP2 stalls at starting gate 08/06/2004 06:02 AM
Under starter's orders but not away

Lions Gate Wants Candy

Lions Gate Wants Candy 02/01/2005 10:13 PM
The company goes to Sundance and adds to its stable of offbeat flicks.

SF Gate: Multimedia (image)

SF Gate: Multimedia (image) 02/14/2004 04:56 AM
The first same-sex couple to be married in the United States .. Married after 50 years together .. Look at that picture .. check it out .. Beautiful

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2 004/02/13/ba_gaywed_01_lm.jpg&paper=chronicle&file=GAYMARRIAGE.TMP&dir ectory=/c/a/2004/02/12&type=universal
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Never trust gate agents...

Never trust gate agents... 01/26/2004 12:43 PM

I remember learning this lesson in the past. NEVER TRUST GATE AGENTS. My Lufthansa flight from Zurich to Munich was over an hour delayed. My transfer was very short and I thought I would miss my flight so I asked them to route me through Frankfurt. They told me all flights out of Munich were late and I would be OK. We arrived in Munich and we walked off the plane and were told to walk up an escalator going the wrong direction. Then at the top of the escalator, the door was locked and we had a pile-up. I heard cussing in a variety of languages. It was funny. We got out and all of the displays for connecting flights were blank.

I went to the gate, and of course the flight had left. I went to the service counter and I got the "are you stupid?" look and was told that I should take the next flight to Frankfurt.

Anyway, I better go board my next flight on my Lufthansa hub-a-thon...

Digital Invaders at the Gate

Digital Invaders at the Gate 07/13/2004 10:17 AM
CyberGuard gets hostile with a main competitor.

Lion's Gate on Fire

Lion's Gate on Fire 06/30/2004 11:27 AM
Lion's Gate is a small fry in entertainment. And that means it needs -- from time to time -- to take a big risk.

Barbarians at the Digital Gate

Barbarians at the Digital Gate 09/18/2004 07:13 PM
How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computer’s hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet.

SUPERCOMM Jumps Out of the Gate

SUPERCOMM Jumps Out of the Gate 06/21/2004 01:58 PM
Internet News Jun 21 2004 6:27PM GMT

BOFH: The enemy at the gate

BOFH: The enemy at the gate 04/27/2004 06:06 AM
Episode 13 Semper vigilo

ISA 2004 Leaves The Gate

ISA 2004 Leaves The Gate 07/14/2004 01:44 AM
Tuesday, during their Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced general availability of Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004. After many months of development in the skunk works at Redmond, Microsoft has drastically overhauled the server's architecture to circumvent worms and other Internet attacks.

America-We-Stand-As-One-Gate

America-We-Stand-As-One-Gate 04/13/2005 02:32 PM
Remember the video from Dennis Madalone - "America We Stand As One" first reported here? And then, of course, we were offered "America We Stand as One / F*CK Yeah!" mash-up video, frist reported here. Well, now the original artist has responded. Dennis has placed himself in the public spotlight. Does this not warrant some playful ridicule? Some might feel bad for Dennis, but others might say he has targeted himself...

Run With the Cloud

Run With the Cloud 03/14/2005 04:39 PM
Televangelist Suzanne Hinn: "If your engine is not revvin' up, you know what you need. You need a holy ghost enema right up your rear end!"

'School gate mums' are new target

'School gate mums' are new target 04/15/2005 04:45 AM
"School gate mums" are Labour's target as Gordon Brown makes a speech on childcare and education.

The undeniable final word on CBS-gate

The undeniable final word on CBS-gate 09/22/2004 09:08 PM
Time to crack open the nearest unit of champagne. This whole CBS/forged document thing -- the mother of all campaign red herrings -- is finally over. Intrepid news anchor Jon Stewart has sorted it out. You can see the breaking news here.

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal due
Nov. 21

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal due
Nov. 21 11/17/2003 01:53 PM
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, the Mac OS X compatible expansion pack to the Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn role playing game, will be released on Nov. 21 by MacPlay at a cost of US$29.99. Like its predecessors, Throne of Bhaal uses official rules from Dungeons & Dragons, the pen-and-paper role playing game. Players can import their entire party from Shadows of Amn or create a new, high-level character, as well as have the opportunity to choose a new class, the wild mage.

Open Source For Corporations: Set Up A
$30,000 Gate

Open Source For Corporations: Set Up A
$30,000 Gate 04/12/2004 02:10 PM
While many in the tech industry always seem focused too much on companies that produce technology, there isn't as much interest in how everyday companies use technology to improve their own bottom line. There's a new "co-op" targeted at large companies that use technology as a way to improve their business, but who are sick of spending so much time and money on customized software for their business. Think of it as open source software with a $30,000 gate. Members of the co-op pay $30,000 per year to join, and then can freely share software they've built with others in the co-op. The benefits, in theory, are access to the other software from other companies, and the fact that some others within the co-op will contribute to and improve on software that's been donated. Of course, companies could just open source this software (since it's obviously focused on software that isn't designed to give the companies a competitive advantage). However, it seems like they figure that the $30,000 gate will keep the level of the software included higher and more focused on corporate uses. Also, it's much more likely that companies will be willing to spend their own engineering resources on applications that go into this program than on fully open source projects - since many managers still have a fear of open source. The article suggests that this could be disruptive to companies that design custom applications for corporate users. There is still a question of seeding the field with enough applications, but it sounds like they've already convinced some large companies (like Best Buy) to join and toss some of their corporate software into the pot.

Baldur's Gate II: Throne Of Bhaal

Baldur's Gate II: Throne Of Bhaal 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
As expansion packs go, ToB is one of the most highly regarded. By Christopher Morin (Inside Mac Games via MyAppleMenu)

AMD To Debut Double-Gate Transistors

AMD To Debut Double-Gate Transistors 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In a clear shot across the bow of chief rival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices has announced it has developed a double-gate transistor that is smaller than any yet created using industry-standard technology. The company said that this advance could lead to the placement of 1 billion transistors on chips that currently hold 100 million transistors.

The Golden Gate Bridge... [Flickr]

The Golden Gate Bridge... [Flickr] 04/11/2005 03:01 PM

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate

New IT Strategy: Stopping Viruses at the
Gate 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In the past, many companies relied on desktop antivirus software to protect against malicious code. Antivirus firm Trend Micro champions a different strategy: The company aims to filter out viruses at the corporate gateway, before they ever reach the desktop. How does this approach fit into the overall enterprise security picture?

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal 2.1

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal 2.1 12/24/2003 04:49 PM
War wreaks havoc among the Bhaal Spawn, and as a Child of Bhaal, you too become embroiled in the conflict.

MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate

MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate 08/08/2004 07:17 PM

The Cloud Allows SIM Authentication

The Cloud Allows SIM Authentication 05/04/2004 02:03 PM
The Cloud customers can now get authenticated using SIM cards: Transat Technologies enables the service. SIM-based authentication is already being used by some hotspots in Europe and is expected to be a widely used authentication method there. Because Europeans use GSM for their cell phone technologies, they are already used to the concept of the SIM card. They can use the same SIM card for their cell phones and for hotspot authentication, which also means they could receive a single bill for both services. Some of the early SIM-based WLAN authentication solutions are pretty rudimentary. They involve the user sending a message from their cell phone to get a code that allows them to access the WLAN. But the more sophisticated solutions include a SIM card reader on a laptop. The SIM card authenticates the user but also applies encryption and security to the communication between the client and the network. That is likely the offering Transat is delivering for The Cloud. At the CTIA Wireless I.T. show last fall I talked to a handful of companies that are touting SIM-based authentication tools, including some of the big SIM card makers. While they're looking for a U.S. market, most weren't terribly bullish that the authentication method would take off here because people aren't widely used to the concept of using SIM cards. Even GSM users in the U.S. don't often realize that they have a SIM card....

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud (Reuters)

Hey! You! Get off of my cloud (Reuters) 07/13/2004 10:33 PM
Reuters - A storm is brewing in China as drought-plagued regions accuse each other of stealing clouds for rain-seeding.

SF Gate columnist: 'Why does Windows
still suck?'

SF Gate columnist: 'Why does Windows
still suck?' 02/05/2005 10:09 PM
In an article detailing his experiences with both Macs and Windows-based PCs, SF Gate columnist Mark Morford asks, "Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac?" Morford goes on to say: "As every Windows user knows, PCs are ever waging a losing battle with a stunningly vicious array of malware and worms and viruses, all aimed at exploiting one of about ten thousand security flaws and holes in Microsoft Windows...
Grok Description matches for Chicago's Cloud Gate
GrokA matches for Chicago's Cloud Gate

Corn Toss, Cornhole, Bean Bag and Bean
Toss - Rules, Sets and Standards

Corn Toss, Cornhole, Bean Bag and Bean
Toss - Rules, Sets and Standards 06/02/2004 03:29 PM
The American Cornhole Association - All I'm saying is that it is completely safe for work .. America's National Asstime .. Further Evidence .. wrong

playcornhole.org
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Have you played cornhole recently?

Have you played cornhole recently? 06/02/2004 03:23 PM
What is CornHole? While it's true that cornholing has been bandied about Metafilter before,the president of the American Cornholing Association has never really had a chance to speak out. The official rules for Cornhole, the chance to become a card carrying member and the freedom to ask detailed questions on the Cornhole Forum are all now available via this wonderful thing called the Internet.

the inaugural cincinnati cornhole
classic

the inaugural cincinnati cornhole
classic 01/04/2004 03:56 AM
What the fuck

usbankarena.com/event_data.php?event=00021
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Secure FTP Bean 2.0.11

Secure FTP Bean 2.0.11 11/05/2003 03:03 AM
A Java bean for performing secure FTP transfers.

L.L. Bean Electronic Pet Tag for $27

L.L. Bean Electronic Pet Tag for $27 06/03/2004 10:20 AM

Reader Josh Arfer passes along word that L.L. Bean's Dog E-Tag, a digital 40-line LCD identification bangle for your dog (or other hefty pet) has been dropped from its normal $40 to around $27. The text only displays in a single color, though, so you might want to throw some asterisks around "infested with bowel-rending worms."
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Claria sues L.L.Bean

Claria sues L.L.Bean 06/09/2004 05:29 PM

L.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers

L.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers 05/17/2004 07:38 PM
L.L. Bean files lawsuits against four companies that it alleges used pop-up ads that appeared when some customers visited the clothier and outdoor gear retailer's Web site.

L.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers (AP)

L.L. Bean Sues Pop-Up Advertisers (AP) 05/17/2004 04:23 PM
AP - L.L. Bean filed lawsuits Monday against four companies it alleges used pop-up ads that appeared when some customers visited the clothier and outdoor gear retailer's Web site.

ADM's Bean Counting

ADM's Bean Counting 06/22/2004 10:42 AM
ADM is positioned to benefit from China's growth as a consumer of imported soybean oil.

Database Bean Generator

Database Bean Generator 03/19/2005 02:38 AM
Released version 2.0.0rc4

Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard

Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be reheard 04/30/2004 02:57 PM
An appeals court orders greater scrutiny of the case between the two companies.

L.L. Bean Sues Nordstrom Over Adware
Pop-Ups

L.L. Bean Sues Nordstrom Over Adware
Pop-Ups 05/18/2004 11:52 AM
There have been many, many lawsuits filed against the various adware/spyware companies that will place ads over certain web pages (for example, putting a FedEx ad over the page if someone visits the UPS website). The real problem with these companies is the fact that their products are often installed without the end users realizing it, and they make it very difficult to remove. However, that legal issue (sneaking stuff onto your computer) gets confused with the other legal question of whether or not it's illegal for these products to pop-up these ads for competitors. The lawsuits have returned mixed results. Sometimes the adware companies win and sometimes they lose. On the whole, they should win these cases. If (and it's a huge if) someone installs this software on purpose - then why shouldn't they be allowed to let the software pop up ads from competitors? Maybe I want to know about competitors to the websites I visit? Why shouldn't I be allowed to set that up on my own computer? The real problem with these products is the fact that they are installed without any real notification (often by having it hidden in the fine print while installing another product). Still, the lawsuits continue. This time, however, L.L. Bean is taking a different path and one that makes a little more sense (though, I still think they should lose). Instead of suing companies like WhenU and Gator directly, they're suing Nordstrom, J.C. Penney, Atkins and Gevalia for buying ads on one of these systems to pop up whenever someone visits the L.L. Bean website. To me, this is the same question of whether or not Google can sell trademarked advertising terms. The companies doing the advertising aren't violating trademarks. A trademark doesn't give a company all rights to a word or phrase - it just lets them protect it from others pretending to be them. However, by suing the other companies, they're following the same plan some are sugge sting companies take with Google: don't sue Google, but sue the advertising companies. Still, I don't see how this is anything other than someone trying to position their ads well. For years, companies have bought billboards outside of their competitors. IBM and Informix have run billboards right outside of Oracle's offices for years. Fox News apparently has a billboard outside of CNN's offices. It may be a little obnoxious (and who knows how well it actually works), but it's certainly not illegal. If L.L. Bean really wanted to help, they should just offer adware/spyware removal tools on their site and fight to against the sneaky nature by which these programs are installed without users knowing it.

Snake Skin Bean Breaker

Snake Skin Bean Breaker 09/02/2004 01:28 PM
Namespace Collision

Perl and Bean Scripting Framework?

Perl and Bean Scripting Framework? 02/04/2003 01:45 PM
So... has anyone gotten to making a Perl engine for the Bean Scripting Framework? I can't seem to find a decent archive of the dev mailing lists, and the links from the Jakarta home page are broken. And, of course, Google doesn't help me much except to point me at all sorts of pages saying that BSF supports scripting languages "like Python and Perl", but without actually showing me the Perl money. Well, if not,...

Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 (Default
branch)

Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 (Default
branch) 03/28/2005 08:10 PM
Generator is an command line application written in java that have the goal to make easy the construction of little applications that needs some database objects stuff. It isn't a replacement of complex object persistence solutions, like hibernate or TopLink but it covers a different target. The little java web applications that dont' use sofisticated persistence options. Generator invocation is simple, just type java -jar generator.jar -xml where config-file is a xml config file with the definitions to connect to the database and generate the bean classes.

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Changes:
This release adds a general parameter to extra import directives, duplication in methods to pass an external connection, an Ant task to use generator inside Ant has, some initial support for Oracle exclusive features(SEQUENCES), more decent documentation and examples, and online Javadoc and documentation. The database schema output has been fixed to show primary keys. Some code cleanups and errors and exceptions handling. The generation of an invalid class from tables without primary keys is avoided. build.xml now has more targets to make distribution packages.

Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 rc4
(Default branch)

Database Bean Generator 2.0.0 rc4
(Default branch) 03/19/2005 03:21 AM
Generator is an command line application written in java that have the goal to make easy the construction of little applications that needs some database objects stuff. It isn't a replacement of complex object persistence solutions, like hibernate or TopLink but it covers a different target. The little java web applications that dont' use sofisticated persistence options. Generator invocation is simple, just type java -jar generator.jar -xml where config-file is a xml config file with the definitions to connect to the database and generate the bean classes.

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Changes:
This release added output of the actual database structure (for future offline generation). A flag was added to the config file for updating only dirty fields individually. Table definitions can now be in separate XML files included by the main file. A random serialVersionUID is now created for the generated classes, and default serialVersionUIDs were added for core classes. Better JavaDoc is provided in generated classes. A lot of STDOUT debug output was eliminated, and the MySQL/J Connector was updated to version 3.1.7.

L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads

L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads 05/18/2004 08:52 PM

L.L. Bean Sues After Name Triggers
AdWare Popups

L.L. Bean Sues After Name Triggers
AdWare Popups 05/19/2004 03:03 PM
"Using our trademarked name as a trigger to which you want to serve your ads causes customer confusion and crosses the line into trademark infringement."

L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads

L.L. Bean Suing Competitors For
Spyware-Linked Ads 05/19/2004 06:00 AM
Slashdot May 19 2004 9:13AM GMT

Briefly: Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be
reheard

Briefly: Gator, L.L. Bean dispute to be
reheard 04/30/2004 04:18 PM
CNET Apr 30 2004 8:29PM GMT

Robbers strike jelly bean plant
(Reuters)

Robbers strike jelly bean plant
(Reuters) 08/12/2004 10:30 PM
Reuters - Two armed men have robbed the Jelly Belly factory north of San Francisco, making off with cash but none of the jelly beans that were a favourite of the late President Reagan, officials say.

Photo Archives: Jedi Mickey Mouse Bean
Bag

Photo Archives: Jedi Mickey Mouse Bean
Bag 07/24/2004 02:21 PM
Today we update our Star Tours section of our Photo Archives with the 2004 Star Wars Weekends Exlusive Jedi Mickey Mouse Bean Bag. This plush was available during the event that took place last May. For $12.00 could one of the 3000 plushes made be yours.

Claria Sues L.L.Bean To Get Them To Stop
Suing Claria Customers

Claria Sues L.L.Bean To Get Them To Stop
Suing Claria Customers 06/10/2004 03:09 AM
Last month, L.L. Bean decided to go one step further from suing Claria for putting pop-up ads over the browsers of Claria users when they visited the L.L. Bean website and sued the advertisers whose ads showed up. At the time, we pointed out that this was ridiculous. Putting those ads there is no different from someone buying a billboard in front of a competitor's office, which is a practice many companies do. The real problem with Claria (and it is a problem) is that the software gets installed without users knowing it. However, if a user does want Claria's Gator product running (and, amazingly enough, some people do want it), that's their decision. There is no law that someone can't use software that pops up advertisements when they visit someone else's website. After realizing that their advertising customers were upset over these lawsuits, Claria has struck back and sued L.L. Bean for filing frivolous lawsuits. Of course, their reasoning isn't so much that these actions are perfectly legal - but that some of the companies sued are no longer Claria customers (which could mean they'll turn around and sue Claria back for causing them to get sued - some lawyers are likely reviewing indemnification clauses as we speak). Either way, this is a big legal mess over the wrong issue. What Claria is doing with their ads is perfectly legal. What they're doing with the installation of Gator, however, is a much bigger question - but none of the lawsuits focus on that.

Scripting Java with the Bean Scripting
Framework

Scripting Java with the Bean Scripting
Framework 04/06/2005 02:25 AM
ZDNet Apr 6 2005 6:33AM GMT

POE in Chicago (02.03.04)

POE in Chicago (02.03.04) 01/25/2004 06:25 PM
inkdroid writes "At the next chicago.pm meeting (02.03.04) Jonathan Steinert (hachi) will provide tips and insight into using the Perl Object Environment (POE). The meeting will be held in our tech-meeting digs at WDI. More information available ...

Chicago or

Chicago or 04/24/2004 11:49 AM
Our salvation lay in a pool of Mutter Paneer. It crept on us, this stimulation deprivation. The side effects of touring with Citizens. Day after day of a similarly blurry mid-western view from beyond the van's windows while we listened to the same CDs and played the same songs and ate the same kinds of foods - the endurance of so much repetitive stimuli had worn away at our ...

Monday in Chicago

Monday in Chicago 07/13/2004 10:08 AM
My wife and I arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon, prepared with suggestions from y'all about what to see and do. Thanks! It was a beautiful day, so we set out down Michigan and walked along the lake shore. It is an odd and beautiful vista to see the skyscrapers hanging like a curtain behind the strip of beach. Then we walked through the Navy Pier, the mall-arcade-amusement park where I drank something blue and sugary. We continued along the shore and then headed back to the hotel. Don't hate us, but we passed a movie theater and on an...

Class::DBI @ chicago.pm

Class::DBI @ chicago.pm 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
inkdroid writes "At this Tuesday's chicago.pm meeting Jay Strauss will be talking about Class::DBI. If you aren't familiar with CDBI, it's a perl module that performs all the drudgery of converting objects to relational databases and vice versa. If you ...

Goin' to Chicago...

Goin' to Chicago... 07/11/2004 09:22 AM
My wife and I are taking 3 days of vacation in Chicago, starting tomorrow. I've been there many times on business, which means I'm very familiar with the airport and am fully qualified to operate the remote in the hotel rooms, and my wife hasn't been there in 30 years or so. So, we're going to do the tourist thing. Outside of the obvious, any recommendations? (Three notes: Second City is closed the days we're there, we don't eat meat and we don't much care for the blues.)...

Tuesday in Chicago

Tuesday in Chicago 07/14/2004 11:36 AM
We had a great day yesterday on vacation in Chicago, although it wasn't particularly good in clearing items from our checklist. We got off to a late start because after breakfast I had a conference call I had to participate in. So, it was 1pm before we really headed out. We walked along Michigan and came upon the Millennium Park, due to open on Friday. We couldn't get a good enough view of the new Gehry concert shell, which looked twisty and interesting, but the site is interrupted by large photos of families from around the world, with just a...

Chicago's Cloud Gate

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