2600 Magazine Defeats Ford 221
narftrek cut-and-pastes the text from 2600's announcement that Ford has conceded the case they brought against 2600 over a certain domain. Our earlier story has some background. A Volvo repair shop near me is named "Island Vo Vo"; the L is silent, you see, because Ford really sucks.
editorializing (Score:5, Funny)
You know, it's moments like this that make me realize that the vapid, heartless, childish, snide front-page editorializing on slashdot is the only reason i still read this damn site.
keep up the good work, cheers
If Jay & Silent Bob Were Part of 2600... (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.fuckfordfuckthemuptheirstupidasses.c
(which is free, btw)
-D
You mean... (Score:2, Funny)
Silent 'L' (Score:1, Funny)
The only 'L' I see is in 'island' - does that mean they pronounce it 'eyeand Vo Vo'?
Re:Freedom of speech? (Score:2, Funny)
This seems like ethical question I've never seen discussed before. I understand both sides - would have been professional from Ford to ask 2600-guys pointing fuckGM to Ford's site - but also vice versa... would have been very nice from 2600 to ask Ford what they would like if fuckGM pointed to their site. And afterwards it isn't hard to say what would have happened...
2600: Can we point fuckGM to your site?
Ford: That's not good business for us, please don't.
2600: We'll do it anyway.
Ford: See you in court.
Eh?
Screw with their heads (Score:3, Funny)
[fords-ip] fordbites.com
[fords-ip] fordsucks.com
[fords-ip]
Then sit and write a shell script that grabs their home page using each of these names, say, once per hour.
They'll be looking at their logs, and see all these Hostname: headers coming through and be totally confused. They'll come after you for spreading these "trademark-tarnishing" domains to the world -- but little do they it's just some stupid script on your server.
Actually, what may even be a bit cooler but takes more time - write a script that generates random Hostname: headers for all requests to Ford's servers..
Hmm.
Re:I did something like this a few years ago... (Score:3, Funny)
That reminds me of the time the mathies took over alt.niggers. The new FAQ pointed out that the newsgroup name was an acronym for "Number theory, Integration, Graph theory, Group theory, Enumeration, Recursion, Set theory".