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Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files
An anonymous reader writes "SCO have made much of how their claims about UNIX code being improperly copied into Linux were verified by 3 teams including 'MIT Mathematicians.' However, MIT can't seem to find the mathematicians concerned!"
(SCO's explanation is that the company is talking about a team made up of people who formerly worked at MIT, rather than a group still associated with the school, but "due to contractual obligations, we cannot specifically name the individuals.")
kuwan writes "SCO has responded to the massive debunking of their 'evidence' last week. Chris Sontag claims that the BPF code was 'not intended to be an example of stolen code, but rather a demonstration of how SCO was able to detect "obfuscated" code.' That, however is a flat-out lie. If you look at their Obfuscated Copying slide (#15), it clearly states 'Obfuscated System V Code Has Been Copied Into Linux Kernel Releases 2.4x and 2.5x,' and then the slide labels the BPF code on the left as 'System V Code.'
At this point I think they realized that their case has been severly weakened and they need to spin it any way they can. And in their case this means more lying."
Captain Beefheart writes "According to this story over at The Inquirer (crediting a special edition of Terry Shannon's Shannon Knows HPC newsletter), SCO has officially announced that HP is safe from their infringement lawsuit brigade ... This leads one to suspect that HP is the Fortune 500 company that SCO claimed recently had paid for a license."
Maybe HP just wants to avoid Microsoft/BSA-style hassles: FatRatBastard writes "According to an article on Commentwire.com SCO has started sending invoices to Linux users. If a company signs up for SCO's 'Intellectual Property License for Linux,' they allow the possibility of being audited at SCO's expense to ensure that the user has been truthful about the number of Linux installations it has. Should the audit reveal that the user has underpaid SCO by 5% or $5,000, whichever is highest, the user also agrees to pay the price for the audit."
Blacklantern writes "The SCO lawsuit has made it into "Halloween Documents" gallery. Eric Raymond takes on the contents of the lawsuit point-by-point. "
I suck, you rule!!!!....wait...
fp!!
Guns n' Roses Troll where did you go? I would like to know what you had for lunch today.
Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter. The man is played by Eric Idle, the wife is played by Graham Chapman (in drag), and the waitress is played by Terry Jones, also in drag. ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam... ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress:
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress:
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: (Singing elaborately...) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!
Why do you care to read this if you are not interested in it? Obviously you have nothing better to do than sit around and read articles that don't interest you.
You aren't interested, yet you take the time out to post?
Tired of the music industry ripping you off? Try another way: emusic
I second that! Great Service
I reject your reality
But if Bill Gates was a girl he'd be praised.
The separation of church and state prevails in
Alabama
Cheers,
W00t
There is no "seperation" clause, there's merely this in the First Amendement:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... "
So what we have is the feds telling the states that they cannot have any religious references in their buildings, something the constitution expressly forbids. It's simply not within the feds power (very little is though they've managed to change that). Welcome to the One Big State of America.
The people who don't want church and state to be seperate are responsible for dumbing down america.
I think it's just great that we replaced e pluribus unum with in god we trust. Latin is gay, and it's not like from many, one is in anyone symbolic, or important, or even a remembered fascet of our national identity. It's much better to do stupid things that split people into little tribes over total nonscense like adding "under god" in an effort to stop communism. Wow. And it worked too. Good thing the oil crisis and the influx of western goods, coupled with a vastly smaller industrial capacity that left the USSR unable to keep parity with consumer goods and defense items had nothing to do with it. Let's all be fucking morons, and demand that everyone else suffer our whims.
My favorit part is that the so called christians don't even know their own book. Repeatedly it says that one's relationship with god is intensely personal, and private, and that while one should never be ashamed of it, and even share it with interested parties, other people have to make their own choices, and should be allowed to do so.
Latin isn't gay. It's bisexual.
I resemble that remark!
That's gotta fit into your schema somewhere
LOL!!!
Mod parent back up!!
Some moderators have no sense of humour at all...
Guess again. Article 3 of the Alabama Constitution expressly forbids this type of thing. No, I don't have a link. There are many on the 'net, do a quick Google and it's easy to find.
Judge Moore swore to uphold the law, then flouted it by ignoring the Constitution of the state he is supposed to preside over as judge. From the words he has said, he basically is saying that God's law is above the laws of the state of Alabama or of the US. This is exactly the type of thing that the US (and presumably Alabama) Constitution(s) was/were supposed to prevent.
This MUST be a troll. I feel that the ten commandments in Alabama prevents me from be a practicing reality-ist, a new and upcoming religion.
Do you realize there are only two relevant commandments? The one about stealing, the other about killing - the other 8 are not illegal in America, nor should they be, nor should they be represented in a place that makes decisions concerning law (or any other public place for that matter).
ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
[not illegal]
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
[not illegal]
THREE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.'
[not illegal]
FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
[not illegal]
FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
[not illegal]
SIX: 'You shall not murder.'
*A law*
SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
[not illegal]
EIGHT: 'You shall not steal.'
*A law*
NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
[not illegal (unless you count purgery, but then that isn't neccessarily your neighbor)]
TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'
[not illegal]
ymmv