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That and more sinister explanantions regarding the desires of the parent corp, The Canopy Group. Check out this report. While much is BS, it is interesting in what it says about Canopy. There is something to be said for your explanation as Yarro was fired. Though some deals were made between SCO and Microsoft.

Bill sets anti-porn rating system, Web registry

What's wrong with a public listing of adult content sites, and a way for parents to request that the sites be blocked from their Inet connection?

A news story I read the other day about Podcasting being picked up by churches used the word "Godcasting". I wanted to puke. http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_2596528

Via one of my fav. news sites, right up there with /.
http://www.witchvox.com/xwrensnest.html

Not sure we've whipped to death the apparent civil war at SCO's parent company the Canopy Group and why exactly they can't file basic paper work on time.

I'm inclined to guess some of the stock issues that are hanging up their 10K may have involved the executives who were summarily executed at Canopy, and since law suits are flying an no one is taking to anyone it may be impossible to get the information they need for their 10K, and maybe the fired execs at Canopy are exacting a revenge on Canopy and SCO.

Apparently the Noorda's advanced age has led them to drop out of active involvement in Canopy Group leading to a vicious power struggle between their kids and two teams of executives.

All in all it appears we have confirmation now that Canopy group is institutionally insane which helps explain why SCO went institutionally insane.

It isn't confusing and SCOX isn't someone else.

It is standard practice to tag high risk companies with the scarlet letter 'E' which happened to SCO last Friday. It basicly means they are on probation and are on notice that they are going to be delisted from the Nasdaq, pending a series of hearings and appeals, and SCO stops violating Nasdaq and SEC regulations, which they did when they failed to file their 10-K on top and also failed to file it when their extension ran out:

From theStreet.com:

"SCO said it has not filed its 10-K because it is examining matters related to the issuance of common stock as part of its equity compensation plans."

You have to assume there must have been some really shady stock or options handed out to their executives, that are either so shady they are taking forever to untangle, or their accounting is in a shambles, or they turned out to be illegal and they are struggling to figure out a way to brush the mess under the rug.

Their parent company Canopy is in a complete shambles too so if the options involve Canopy its possible SCO can't figure out what happened since there was a mass executive firing at Canopy and law suits have been filed. Apparently Ray Noorda and his wife are suffering from old age and are no longer able to manage the day to day affairs of the company and their children and a couple sets of executives are engaged in a life or death battle to seize control of Canopy and destroying it in the process.

From watching the SCO litigation against Linux and the apparent pump and dump stock scam by Darl and company it was pretty apparent that SCO and Canopy had gone institutionally insane and proof that is in fact the case is now apparently surfacing.

SCOX stock is holding up remarkably well considering the numerous potential down sides of their current situation:

A. There may have been illegal or unethical copensation to someone
B. or their accounting is in such a shambles they don't know who got what
C. They might get delisted from the Nasdaq which means they will end up being traded over the counter or on the Pink Sheets which severely limits their liquidity(it will become very hard to dump any stock if you buy it). OTC and Pink Sheet stocks tend so be bought only by people who are making a long shot gamble(for example that SCO wins its case against IBM).
D. They will probobably lose their case against IBM
E. Their SCO Unix business is cratering as all of their established customer base is bailing on them, presumably to Linux, and no new customer is going to touch them with a ten foot cattle prod.

See how MS (err SCO) was handed a gift in their case with IBM here.

this article says "in recent history"...

too bad you said "mankind", otherwise it could've been the comet that wiped out the dinosaurs..

I absolutely agree! Certifications only make programmres. And that totally figured in to my research when I chose Northface University. This school is not simply a certification program. (Who in their right mind would pay $60,000 for two certifications!?)

How many programmers do you know that can also interface with the business people? At NU, we're not just tought to code and pass the certs. Collaboration is a hefty focus (few traditional universities teach CS students collaboration) and modelling is core to our education.

IBM Fellow Grady Booch (see bio at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/booc h.html) was quoted in a recent Salt Lake Tribune article (http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2383658) as saying this about NU:

"When the Northface founders showed us what they were trying to accomplish, it just made sense. The Northface vision falls in line with IBM's quest to maintain a highly skilled workforce so we can continue to develop innovative products for our customers."

Grady Booch is now on NU's advisory board. Another industry leader, Oma Sewhdat (who has held long-time positions such as: IBM Software Group's Senior Manager of WebSphere; and, jCert Initiative President) left IBM to come to NU. His goal: make sure NU lives up to the educational goals he helped research and establish at IBM over the past ten years.

Northface University will give the CS education it's students need.

The real "disincentive" to diabetes research, at least with stem cells, is political. If you vote for Bush this November, you're basically voting against science and medical research.

Scientists: Bush Distorts Science

Scientists: Bush administration distorts research

New pesticide rules let EPA skip wildlife agency reviews is the latest story of the Bush administration removing scientists from the loop when scientific findings might go against Bush's policies.

There have been more and more stories in the mainstream press mentioning Firefox as a cure for what ails your computer:

Salt Lake Tribune
The Age
Sierra Star (CA)
Sun-Sentinel (FL)
News-Press (FL)
News-Leader (MO)
The Scotsman (guys in skirts)
etc...

has anyone noticed the number of *awful* things sponsored by Sen. Orin Hatch?

Orrin Hatch is from Utah.

If that doesn't make it abundantly clear: the Church of Latter Day Saints is incredibly, -incredibly- socially conservative on all but a few points. Outside of Salt Lake City, the entire state is a Mormon stronghold; and the LDS church is trying to take over Salt Lake.

Dig around in the Salt Lake Tribune for details; look at the current cover story on the "theater student who refused to curse in class", or look up the hubbub over the -one- strip club in Salt Lake that has been repeatedly threatened because of local laws about its proximity to a "religious establishment" (iirc, a bar).

If that doesn't settle it for you, look in the bottom right corner of this snippet I scanned out of the SLtrib. Classic!

Instead of writing your senator, why not write to the media outlets? TV, radio and newspapers are more likely to get their voter base up in arms. Here are the links to the newspapers in Hatch's area: Salt Lake Trib
Deseret News

This shouldn't be a surprise. Look at the headlines they give in 50 point type, and then when it turns out to be wrong it doesn't even make front page news.

Yellow cake in Niger, for example, they hail him as nearly a god when he says there was no such thing, and that turns out to be wrong...see here here here here
here and here.

They've finally run a story about it, but wouldn't it have been a lot better for them to have investigated those Wilson allegations themselves, when they first happened?

That's only one of the latest...

Oops, wrong button....

No, though SCO are trying to spin it that way. It's what Linus said: they tracked down where all the code came from by searching through old mailing lists. It worked, but it was difficult and time consuming. This will make the whole process easier if they need to do it again...

Who would have thought anything useful could have come out of this whole charade...? ;-)

There was already a lawsuit concerning the same issue. What's different about this case?

Did Novell indirectly create a monster? Caldera's 300 million winnings against Microsoft are now being used to fund lawsuits against Linux (and Novell).

Novell also was to receive a cut of any lawsuit awards in the form of so-called "royalties."

* * *

When Canopy prevailed against Microsoft and received the settlement, it tried to first deduct its attorney fees, court costs and other expenses, the judges found. Novell, believing its still-undisclosed cut of the award should have come on the gross amount, sued for breach of contract.

To accomplish this, Novell and Canopy executed two separate documents: the first was a contract of sale, obligating Canopy to pay $400,000 for rights to the source code; the second was a temporary license obligating Canopy to pay $600,000 in license fees and "royalties." The royalties included provisions for payment to Novell of a percentage of any recoveries from lawsuits.

In "Men in Black," Tommy Lee Jones' character holds up a new intergalactic music disc the size of a postage stamp that will eventually replace CDs.
"Guess I'll have to buy the 'White Album' again," he says with a sigh.
source

The tinfoil side of me thinks that perhaps the **AA's been trying to condition people to this for quite some time. The non-tinfoil side thinks the tinfoil side's nutz.

Maybe it's this you read. It says that if SCO stays below 6.75 for 20 days BayStar can ask for redemption. While this says that it's 8.46 and SCO can force the pay off. Either way, they are already facing a BayStar pullout, so it's hard to say how much it would hurt.

Investor softens stand on SCO

"First on BayStar's list is new top-level management, a directive that sources privately confirmed called for the resignation or reassignment of Darl McBride, SCO's outspoken, occasionally vitriolic president and chief executive."

Interpretation: BayStar wants McDarling gone because his big mouth is sinking the ship.

The first of four failed in 2002 and no replacement will be available until the shuttles run again.

The station requires the remaining two gyros for normal operation, but there are other backup measures available if another one fails.

Salt Lake Trib article

Has this anything to do with the shutdown of the adult film industry?

p.s. I HATE ALL OF YOU! fuck you all!

Microsoft had nothing to fear from Sun or their litigation.

wanna bet??? Sun had saved stuff from the shredder and had the real dirt on them... what's the bet's this settlement also involves Sun quitely destroying the real evidence that Microsoft would definitely not want seen dragged into open court...

I just wonder if IBM will be putting in a court order to rescue them from Sun's shredder...

There are F-16s that have crashed in the lake. The military decided it was too expensive to recover them since they were destroyed anyway. So they let them sink in the mud (presumably they did). I imagine that there is other airplane junk in the lake too, being the flyover for a military base.

There are some interesting artifacts around the lake. Being a desert region seems to attract a number of artists that sees it as their canvas. It's where you see all the car commercials with the car zooming along in a vast desert expanse on white ground (the salt flats).

It's unfortunate, but we do not have an enviromentally conscious citzenry. All sorts of trash and junk. have been dumped out at the lake, just so they wouldn't have to pay a landfill fee or bother with it.

It's true that the lake does have an ecosystem, but not much of one, as it is very salty.

Also, the Salt Lake is not the swimmer's aquatic paradise. At one time it was considered to be. There was a large resort on the shore. Unfortunately it burned to the ground when some vagrants built a campfire on the wooden floor (smart, huh?).

The lake was so salty that you would indeed float like a cork. But because of a railway causeway across the lake, the south end (where everybody goes swimming) does not have enough salinity as the lake is fed by freshwater sources there.

The lake does not have any natural beaches, but rather mud flats for shoreline. Not like what you find at the ocean. There are some man made ones, and this is where you can go spend the day if you want.

But even if you do find a spot of sand to toss the blanket on, there are "brine flies", the other half of the lake's ecosystem. Imagine a hord of gnats that want to make you their business.

There is bacteria that thrive in this anaeoribic enviroment around the shoreline. The resulting byproduct of their efforts is hydrogen sulfide, or as we like to call it "lake stink". If the wind is just right, there is not a place in the valley that you can go to escape it. But that only happens occasionally, like before a rainstorm. I think the natives like myself have a fondness for it (since it only happens a couple times a year) as it reminds us that we live in a unique place. However, if you are down on the shore, there are days it is very bad.

After years of drought, the lake is at a low point right now. However in the mid-eighties, it was at the highest point ever. An interesting engineering feat (or more likely boondoggle) was the installation of massive pumps that are capable of pumping the lake in order to lower the level.

There are a number of mineral companies that remove salt, rare metals (magnesium), and other minerals from the lake.

However, until recently (last 15-20 years), there was not that much concern for the lake ecology. The thing that people did/do not realize is that like other resources, it is finite.

There was a time that nobody harvested brine shrimp eggs. Now there are a number of companies that have to be regulated so they do not remove the entire next generation of brine shrimp from the lake. Indications are that decades of removing minerals from the lake have depleted the salt flats. So much so, that the world famous Bonneville Speedway does not have enough rock hard salt to break speed records on anymore.

My favorite thing about the lake? Without a doubt it is Pink Floyd, an escapee from a local aviary. He's more predictable than the swallows at Capistrano. Every year he makes

Tree of Utah

Sun Tunnels

When I attempted to access the Web pages of exile groups opposed to the authoritarian Vientiane regime, I received an error message saying the pages were not accessible. My experience in the Vientiane cafe was a sobering antidote to a pervasive myth: that the Internet is a powerful force for democracy.

Disclaimer: I'm a part of this significant subset of the democratization industry that Kurlantzick mentioned. Kurlantzick is sadden by the inability of the Internet to topple regimes. Note that by Internet he means the World Wide Web and that he seriously anticipated the Internet to empower the meek and downtrodden with the weapons and ammunition needed to stage revolutions that will remove tyrants.

The Internet is a powerful force for democracy because the Internet is an enabler of open communication. It is just like a radio, a television, or a newspaper - all three of which have ignited flames of revolt all throughout history. The ability to voice one's opinion as well as one's oppression is a prerequisite to the democrazation of any social or political system. Now obviously a government can hinder the effectiveness of the Internet. China did this with Google. We did it with Early Bird. Cultures can also handicap the effectiveness of the Internet.

True story. A North African Muslim couple come to the US to study Information Systems. They catch the entrepreneurial spirit and decide to open an ISP in their home country upon returning home. A couple of years later they return to the US, having not started that ISP. Their reason was that their society was very fundamentalist Islamic despite a few liberal pockets. By starting an ISP, they would expose their customers to culturally and religiously offensive material such as WalMart.com women's casualware listings or Saks Fifth Avenue's pantyhose and shoe catalog. The couple feared a death sentence for bringing in what was considered locally, smut and porn.

This is one specific example of how the effectiveness of the Internet can be limited. However, the Internet has had more success in other places such as the former Yugoslavia. IIT's Project Kosovo and Project Bosnia have successfully used the Internet as a way of documenting war crimes and atrocities and getting the word out to the international community. Democratization efforts depend on getting information flowing. We need to get people talking. We need to start hearing more stories first-hand. The Internet hasn't been used seriously as an instrument for social change until the late 1990s, so results will take time. The ultimate goal is for the Internet to serve as conduit that permits a free exchange of ideas, and that through that exchange help can be given and lives can be improved.

The Internet has an even more important role today than envisioned years ago. Many people are frightened of sharing their political and social opinions in public out of fear of retribution by the authorities. The Internet a vital means for learning the issues from multiple perspectives and for engaging in healthy political debate. At this very moment, tech savvy groups like eToy are engaging in electronic hacktivsm, making people aware of issues that they won't hear about on corporate-controlled news channels. Even now in the US, the safest place to protest is not the free speech zones approved by the government but private chatrooms and blogs.

While it's true that the Internet has proved itself able to disseminate pop culture in authoritarian nations--not only Laos, but China, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere--to date, its political impact has been decidedly limited.

This is opinion. I've spoken with many forei

We might really see a change in authority here, this article from the Salt Lake Tribune mentions that "benefited substantially from IBM's long-running relationship with SuSE." IBM has been in the race for a while, but it looks like all the big boys are now coming out to play. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

According to this article in the Salt Lake Tribune, it needs to stay below 6.75 for 20 consecutive days. A little over a dollar to go. Buyback could be used to try to make a bounce, but I would hope that the threat of 6.75 would cause the stock to dip enough in anticipation once it is in the neighborhood and so the buyback is just throwing away more money.

Come on, we Brazilians have the most advanced space program ever. While NASA/ESA/etc spends billions of dollars in research to launch five to seven astronauts, we accomplished to launch 21 people into space and beyond. Getting them back is another story.

It's mere hours after the ARREST OF THE DEADLIEST SNIPER IN RECORD HISTORY and you people are talking about DVD compatibility???? MY GOD, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!!!!!!

The US installed Duvallier. Then they installed Aristide. Twice! Then when he asked for help again, they forcibly removed him and are now supporting the rebels.
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Get a clue. Read a newspaper. Turn on the television news. Pull your head out of your ass.

Google this: "canopy ca settlement"

Canopy Group (parent of SCO) and Center 7, another Canopy subsidiary, had a joint marketing arrangement with CA. Canopy claims that CA welshed. Canopy and Level 7 sued CA. The suit was settled with a $40 million payment.

I seem to recall, but I can't find a link, that other terms of the suit were that CA buy some Linux licenses. That would fit in with Canopy's plans.

Link to the settlement

In Utah, incumbent monopoly telco Qwest's modest investment of $50,000 in campaign contributions and its' powerful lobbyists (one is the son-in-law of the State Senate President) may be enough to kill the UTOPIA 18-city initiative to build a publicly-owned FTTH (fiber to the home) system. A bill (openly crafted by Qwest) that would effectively outlaw city's financing the project sailed out of the Senate and threatens to become law. This action comes after 18 city councils have voted to join UTOPIA and 6 have already made financial guarantees . The UTOPIA system is based on an open-access model allowing multiple competing providers to offer voice, data and video services to subscribers.

This comes as the Salt Lake City Tribune, a strong foe of the UTOPIA initiative, ran an article wondering why Utah is losing its' position as a major technology center.

There are more UTOPIA links at http://communityfiber.blogspot.com/2004_02_08_comm unityfiber_archive.html#107630357108945975

In Utah, incumbent monopoly telco Qwest's modest investment of $50,000 in campaign contributions and its' powerful lobbyists (one is the son-in-law of the State Senate President) may be enough to kill the UTOPIA 18-city initiative to build a publicly-owned FTTH (fiber to the home) system. A bill (openly crafted by Qwest) that would effectively outlaw city's financing the project sailed out of the Senate and threatens to become law. This action comes after 18 city councils have voted to join UTOPIA and 6 have already made financial guarantees . The UTOPIA system is based on an open-access model allowing multiple competing providers to offer voice, data and video services to subscribers.

This comes as the Salt Lake City Tribune, a strong foe of the UTOPIA initiative, ran an article wondering why Utah is losing its' position as a major technology center.

There are more UTOPIA links at http://communityfiber.blogspot.com/2004_02_08_comm unityfiber_archive.html#107630357108945975

In Utah, incumbent monopoly telco Qwest's modest investment of $50,000 in campaign contributions and its' powerful lobbyists (one is the son-in-law of the State Senate President) may be enough to kill the UTOPIA 18-city initiative to build a publicly-owned FTTH (fiber to the home) system. A bill (openly crafted by Qwest) that would effectively outlaw city's financing the project sailed out of the Senate and threatens to become law. This action comes after 18 city councils have voted to join UTOPIA and 6 have already made financial guarantees . The UTOPIA system is based on an open-access model allowing multiple competing providers to offer voice, data and video services to subscribers.

This comes as the Salt Lake City Tribune, a strong foe of the UTOPIA initiative, ran an article wondering why Utah is losing its' position as a major technology center.

There are more UTOPIA links at http://communityfiber.blogspot.com/2004_02_08_comm unityfiber_archive.html#107630357108945975

but it also has Hydrogen Peroxide in the atmosphere!

link

Antiseptic and life-killing, the chemical helps explain why the martian atmosphere and surface are void of life.

The UTOPIA optical-fiber-to-home plan for Utah seems to be a sensible business plan for using public bonds to bring fiber to 18 cities, but it is (surprise) getting hammered by representatives from the local phone and cable companies, Qwest and Comcast. While their representatives don't seem to mind driving to legislative hearings on public roads, they do seem set against letting this project go ahead.

One of the two area papers, the nominally non-LDS, liberal-ish one that is dominant in the affected metro area, doesn't like UTOPIA either, and thus covers it from that perspective.

In another current, pressing theme, local politicians and newspapers fret over how to best bring high-paying high-tech (back) into the state.

Does anyone have good examples of good high speed networks that bring in or otherwise enable the formation and growth of new industry? I would like to have these to forward to the UTOPIA folks and key legislative offices. (Disclosure: I am an ECE prof. at a U in the UTOPIA footprint.) The Utah legislature is in session for another couple of weeks.

The UTOPIA optical-fiber-to-home plan for Utah seems to be a sensible business plan for using public bonds to bring fiber to 18 cities, but it is (surprise) getting hammered by representatives from the local phone and cable companies, Qwest and Comcast. While their representatives don't seem to mind driving to legislative hearings on public roads, they do seem set against letting this project go ahead.

One of the two area papers, the nominally non-LDS, liberal-ish one that is dominant in the affected metro area, doesn't like UTOPIA either, and thus covers it from that perspective.

In another current, pressing theme, local politicians and newspapers fret over how to best bring high-paying high-tech (back) into the state.

Does anyone have good examples of good high speed networks that bring in or otherwise enable the formation and growth of new industry? I would like to have these to forward to the UTOPIA folks and key legislative offices. (Disclosure: I am an ECE prof. at a U in the UTOPIA footprint.) The Utah legislature is in session for another couple of weeks.

The UTOPIA optical-fiber-to-home plan for Utah seems to be a sensible business plan for using public bonds to bring fiber to 18 cities, but it is (surprise) getting hammered by representatives from the local phone and cable companies, Qwest and Comcast. While their representatives don't seem to mind driving to legislative hearings on public roads, they do seem set against letting this project go ahead.

One of the two area papers, the nominally non-LDS, liberal-ish one that is dominant in the affected metro area, doesn't like UTOPIA either, and thus covers it from that perspective.

In another current, pressing theme, local politicians and newspapers fret over how to best bring high-paying high-tech (back) into the state.

Does anyone have good examples of good high speed networks that bring in or otherwise enable the formation and growth of new industry? I would like to have these to forward to the UTOPIA folks and key legislative offices. (Disclosure: I am an ECE prof. at a U in the UTOPIA footprint.) The Utah legislature is in session for another couple of weeks.

This issue led to a battle between producers and the musicians union in New York last spring, which eventually resulted in a four-day strike ended by a new contract brokered by the mayor's office. The compromise preserves live orchestras, but reduces the required size. Most media coverage has expired (or moved into paid archives) but a simple Google search turns up:

Anti-synthesizer advocacy site.

Sinfonia article.

Settlement story.

I don't think that's much an advantage, when that single vendor is SCO. Like, how much longer are they going to be around?

And "lower[ing] the dependency on single software vendors" , as the German government is attempting to do in moving to Linux, is surely a good thing, anyway.

That "f'rubber" looks pretty good in the initial testing phases. Not 100% human-like but close.

The Salt Lake Tribune has an article positioning this as a David v. Goliath suit of SCO against IBM...IBM stealing the assets developed by a small Provo firm. Utahns are extremely susceptiple to this type of argument.

Free speech does not exist in Portland unless your speech happens to appear on the approved "progressive dogma" list.

Idaho governor Leavitt succeeds Governor Kempthorne, just named the previous Idaho governor, to head the EPA [commondreams.org], as it abandons the penalty financing of SuperFund.

I'm furious about this setup - I let it affect the construction of that sentence. Rephrase:

Utah governor Leavitt succeeds Idaho Governor Kempthorne as Bush Jr's nominee to head the EPA as it abandons the penalty financing of Superfund.

If you don't do something about the takeover of the US government, by what was once a minority "covert action" cabal under Bush Sr (in President VP Cheney's old job), even just telling someone who doesn't know some of the facts, you are culpable in the murder of liberty. If you do something, even though the deck is stacked against you, at least you'll still have your conscience, no matter what else they take from you.

Lets talk about censorship shall we ?, can you handle the truth ?, from where i sit China's is looking good at the moment compared to some places

I wish I'd found this topic before it had picked up 1000+ replies, but in case anyone is still reading, here's my "you can't say that":

Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, throws out an off-the-cuff quip while on tour in England. She said, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." Country radio stations, especially the corporate soundalikes, pull the Chicks' "Travelin' Soldier" -- a song about war and sacrifice in the Vietnam era.

Of course, this leaves people with the impression that country listeners are uneducated rednecks with a shotgun in the truck window and truck balls hanging from the bumper. That's not the case... not all country fans steamrollered their CDs, and those that did probably bought more (the album's 4x platinum). But it's hard to listen if the radio doesn't play something... so as long as Clear Channel & co. treat their listeners like fools, the Chicks won't get play.

Meanwhile, with a dozen Americans a week dying in Iraq (and my cousin serving in Tikrit to boot), I can't say I'm terribly proud of the Texan in the White House, myself.

Excuse me? You mean SCO exectutives aren't dumping SCO stock? It's not exactly an underreported story...

Yeah, in Florida you never know; if all else fails, Jeb may well shove a bill through the legislature outlawing games with the words "Theft" and "Grand" in them. Its happened before...