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Corrections Thread
Authored by: bugstomper on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 05:47 PM EDT
Please summarize in the Title box error->correction or s/error/correction/ to
make it easy to scan see what needs to be corrected and to avoid duplication of
effort.

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News Picks Threads
Authored by: bugstomper on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 05:51 PM EDT
Please type the title of the News Picks article in the Title box of your
comment, and include the link to the article in HTML Formatted mode for the
convenience of the readers after the article has scrolled off the News Picks
sidebar.

Hint: Avoid a Geeklog bug that posts some links as broken by putting a space on
either side of the text of the link, as in

<a href="http://example.com/foo"> See the spaces? </a>

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Authored by: bugstomper on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 05:53 PM EDT
Please stay off topic in these threads. Use HTML Formatted mode to make your
links nice and clickable.

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Comes transcripts here
Authored by: bugstomper on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 05:55 PM EDT
You can see from this article how valuable the transcripts are.

Please post your transcriptions of Comes exhibits here with full HTML markup but posted in Plain Old Text mode so PJ can copy and paste it

See the Comes Tracking Page to find and claim PDF files that still need to be transcribed.

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How easy is it to corrupt judges in the US?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 06:27 PM EDT
I just wonder about a number of practices that may occur in
the US that may open the door to corrupting of judges in the
US legal system. I am not an expert on the US legal system,
but can someone tell me why it isn't possible for the
following to lead to corruption of a US judges.

The first problem is the ability for a judge to choose to be
appointed to a case as opposed to getting allocated any
judge at random. This surely opens the door to a party in
litigation to reward a judge, who can then chase the case to
get himself allocated to the case (judge Motz reportedly
pursued the Microsoft vs Novell case and got himself
appointed). If as in most countries the judge is allocated
at random then in becomes very difficult to know which judge
to attempt to bribe - if money is exchanged shortly after a
judge is appointed this would raise eyebrows. The method of
payment for the services the judge is expected to render
must be discrete - for example donation of money well before
the case for something that can be claimed to be unconnected
with the case, preferably an innocent looking contribution
paid well before the case so it can be claimed not to be
connected.

The second problem is the practice of judges to canvas for
election (I don't know if this is actually a practice in the
US, but I have seen movies where judges received perfectly
legal contributions to fund election). If this practice of
cultivating influence through donations is allowed for
judges as it is for politicians, then combined with the
first problem, it provides the means to corrupt US judges.

This is all uninformed conjecture on my part, but are there
any comments from anyone who is better informed than me?

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Novell never complained to Microsoft?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, August 13 2012 @ 07:33 PM EDT
"Actually, Novell provided evidence by Gary Noll that they in fact did try that at first, but the help desk at Microsoft was no longer willing to help the way they had before", Groklaw

"And Judge Motz also wrote that nobody at the top in Novell complained about it to Microsoft at the time", Groklaw

'First, as stated in section I ... there is no evidence that anyone at Novell made any complaint to anyone at Microsoft who could have reversed the decision to withdraw support for the namespace extension APIs', Judge Motz
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"The Windows Product Marketing team .. has decided to produce a and distribute a "patch" disk for both PerfectOffice and WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows .. It should be noted that these bugs, for the most part, are not problems with our software (the Win95 bugs are problems we addressed with Microsoft which they refused to fix)" Comes July 1995

"My MAPI service providers that used to work in the M7 time frame (January beta) no longer seem to work" Comes July 1995 "If the constants and API's have been removed, why are they so well documented? Also, if they have been removed, how do we integrated password changes with Windows 95" Comes Aug 1995

"Microsoft would like cooperative product testing, access to Novell’s SuperLab for Win95 testing", Comes January 1996
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