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SCO Consultant S2 Strategic Consulting In Depth

cdlu writes "Wondering about SCO's contractor S2? They're the people that wrote Halloween II and indemnified SCO... well, here's all you want to know about them from NewsForge." (NewsForge is part of OSDN.) Maybe not all you want to know, but enough for one day. Several readers also point out Bruce Perens' column on CNET today which reiterates the difficulty SCO faces in attempting to get past the clarification of license terms AT&T offered Unix licensees in 1985.

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  1. no prob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I already took care of it.

    1. Re:no prob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      thx bro! you the man. and i gnaa squashed earlier... it feels good, knowing we made a difference. And that's only half the battle!

  2. John Ashcroft by tealover · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How many people were hoping he died during his gallbladder removal operation?

    I was.

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    -- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
  3. MIDGET COSPLAY PORN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Has anyone got some?

  4. John Romero drew my mockery liberally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    John Romero drew my mockery liberally. He told me he was going to "make me his bitch" and that I would "suck it down". He was performing many business mistakes. I couldnt believe what the fuck was going on. I told John Romero that Eidos would not approve of Daikatana.

    It doesn't help at all that John Romero has been spun out after seeing the poor reviews. He can hardly be taken seriously after making Daikatana. How is he possibly going to get critical acclaim when he's making shit like that gay Intergalactic Delivery Boy game? They'll make Monkeystone start developing sports franchises just to stay in the black. There it is. Carmack just called and said he started claiming "Design is king" again. He has to go.

  5. I though it said.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "SCO consulting in Death"

  6. Q: What's the best thing bout fucking 28 year olds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A: There are twenty of them! LOL OMG BS HS HACKS aIMBOT!!!11

  7. lok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    rolling with the homies!!!!!!!!!!!!111111 As if, SCO owes me $699 fee you troll, moderate clockwise 'till finished, thanks. talk to you later, bye squeeeeeeeeeeeeeelie!11

  8. Peter Molyneux dead at 48 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on the BBC -
    legendary game designer Peter Moluneux was found dead in his Guildford home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to games. Truly a British icon.

  9. Re:The GNAA Presents another FP! by dynamo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dude, you have too much time on your hands. go jump off a bridge or something. i heard it's the cool thing to do for preschoolers these days

  10. beowolf duke nukem 3 vapor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    linux, clusters, SCO, microsoft. more points means more accuracy, but don't forget about the greed of others like mel gibson, who personally washes my balls with linux kernals everynight. i'd let him compile it first, but that'd be spoiling the little jew monkey. FREE KEVIN!1 A/S/L?

  11. Nice AK-47 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Props on the fp.

  12. Your thoughts interest me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to subcribe to your newsletter. A/S/L?

  13. One reason I'll always buy proprietory software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Better QA...and interface
    That's two reasons then

  14. Re:Uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In soviet russia it reads: Wondering about S2 contractor SCO?

    seriously tho some body needs to track down Mr. Anderer. any geeks with good social engg skills out there???

  15. Darl is a sentient being! by Thinkit4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    A Theory of Everything (TOE)

    About skeptics. Skepticism is the way to distinguish truly wrong theories from others. Nothing here can be shown to be false currently. Reincarnation figures strongly into the theory, and this is often associated with pseudoscience. Thus, examples of pseudoscience that are incompatible with this theory are given.

    Free Will.

    • Can generate randomness.
    • Seeks love and music.
      Music here is a broad category that includes as well survival and power.
    • Are all identical.
      Free Will as a concept does not change from person to person.

    Free Will is a perfect concept, like that af a circle.

    God.

    • Can generate randomness.
    • Has no storage or input.
      Without storage or input, God remains outside of time. This gives him the power to generate an entire universe all at once.
    • Outputs quantized information.
    • Seeks music.

    God, then, actually has a subset of the powers of every sentient being. God cannot love, cannot store. God is essentially a random number generator. This is a deist philosophy.

    An entity is the self. It consists of free will coupled with storage.

    This is the "soul" concept common in religions.

    • a. The amount of entities is finite, unchanging, and even.
      There can be no creation or destruction of them. See the story below for why it should be even.
    • Each has no beginning.
    • Each has no end.
    • Each has a non-quantized infinite storage of previous (quantized) input from seats of consciousness.
      It is infinite because there was no beginning to the storage. Because it is infinite, it contains all that can be experienced. However, it is ordered by time.

      It can only be added to, never deleted. It has been shown that completely erasing memories, while interesting to science fiction, is very hard to do. No matter what part of the brain is damaged, there remains some recollection of ingrained memory.

      Scientific testing of this hypothesis is difficult. Remembering a specific address or phone number would be conclusive proof, but that is not the nature of this storage. It is more the stuff of dreams--fleeting.

      Output is not stored. The output may be fed back as input and stored, though. Note that God has output but no storage.

      Sorry, L. Ron, there can be no "out of body" experience.

    • The storage cannot be shared directly. It must go through systems.
      Telepathy can be thought of as a direct sharing of this storage between minds. Skeptics have convincingly shown no paranormal exchange of information.

    The beings spoke of in the beginning were not entities until the universes started.

    A seat of consciousness is the physical carrier of the entity.
    This is known as a "homunculus". The seat presumably is somewhere in the brain. As many animals do seem sentient, it is probably in an older part of the brain that evolved long before humans. We should be looking for a "black box" that processes information in a way consistent with an entity. We are finding that all sensory information converges on certain areas such as the thalamus. Consciousness could reside in a polarized gap between the two lobes of the thalamus, with one end representing input, and the other output.

    The dividing line is likely to be at the vertebrates (subphylum Vertebrata).

    A system, a "sentient being", is the fusion of one entity with one physical seat of consciousness.

    • It has a beginning.
      Likely in the womb. It may be inactive (unconscious) initially, which would be significant. When it becomes active, this is when sentient life begins.
    • It has an end.
      The system is not just inactive--it has disassembled. So this is
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    -I am an elective eunuch.
  16. Sad news .... Paul Windfield dead age 63 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor Paul Windfield was found dead in his L.A. home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to Star Trek and other movies like Roots: The Next Generation. Truly an American icon.

  17. Sad news .... Anonymous Coward dead age 13 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Slashdotter Anonymous Coward was found dead in his mother's basement this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to Slashdot and to bathroom walls everywhere. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Sad news .... Anonymous Coward dead age 13 by Thanatopsis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Paul's actually dead tho. Heart attack
      Obit here

  18. Believe! by The+Bungi · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Newsforge? Let me see... hmmm. This is the same website that printed a little piece by roblimo about how last year's blackout was "possibly" (just a hint, mind you) Microsoft's fault? A claim that was later proved wrong.

    Yeah, their investigative skills and journalistic integrity are second to none.

    This is just another squirt of gasoline in the flames. Of course it "proves" that this is all a vast conspiracy (just like ESR's incisive analysis of that useless email), so I guess I'll believe anything they say.

  19. can't stress this enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    www.freebsd.org

  20. you fail it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but the previous 47 fps make up for it, i think.

  21. Ever notice that www.sco.com is running linux? by MauMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ever notice that www.sco.com is running linux (Netcraft.com)? I guess Unixware is not up to the task....

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  22. That doesn't even scratch the surface... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Don't fool yourself into thinking you know what's going on in this world. The first duty of power is to perpetuate itself, and we don't even know who the actual powerful people are. Truman started the whole American tradition of secrecy after WWII with Project Paperclip, in which the CIA put captured Nazi scientists to work on America's nuclear arsenal, the space program, and all this "otherworldly" technology they'd come across. (And you know what I mean.) Then they got Truman to create the super-secret Majestic 12 committee to oversee Project Paperclip, not to mention other weird stuff the government wanted hidden. They ran the whole thing, and they've been running it for years, but nobody knows who "they" are. But I'm pretty sure they're all Freemasons.

    The whole Kennedy thing is so huge because it's at the center of so many other covert shadow-government operations. Kennedy himself was the smallest part of it, because it was actually a power play between Dulles' CIA, the anti-Castro military, LBJ, the Giancana Mafia, and a bunch of other dirty players. Oswald was a patsy, sure, but he put a gun on Jack. Of course, so did other test-mules from Dulles' MK-Ultra LSD-mind-control experiments. Zapruder was in on it, too: He was a KGB mole from way back. And the whole thing had ripple effects, like Jonestown, which was an assassin training camp that got found out. As for the Warren Commission, that thing was a joke--Dulles himself was on it, and there was only one person on the whole commission who wasn't on the CIA payroll and suspected Oswald didn't act alone. He died in a plane crash, after a young congressional aide named Bill Clinton drove him to the airport. It's all true, but nobody wants to admit it. Nobody.

    Now, Roswell, that's a bunch of crap. The Air Force was in possession of captured alien technology years before that. In '43, they started reverse-engineering a torus-shaped craft that came down in Arizona, and the next thing you know, America has The Bomb, supersonic aircraft, and a space program. Glenn saw stuff up there, flying lights. You can look it up. You know what I think? I think that skirt-chaser Kennedy wanted to spill the beans about our alien friends, so they killed him. He told his girlfriend Marilyn Monroe, and they killed her, too. No doubt, you're wondering, "Who are 'they'?" Well, I think the numbers speak for themselves: The Trinity site, where the first A-bomb was detonated, Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy bought the farm, and Area 51 are all on the 33rd parallel. And what other significance does the number 33 happen to have? It's the highest rank of the Masonic order. Wheels within wheels, my friend. Wheels within wheels.

    [with apologies to The Onion]

  23. SCOX down by aquabat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OT: SCO stock just touched ten dollars even, a few minutes ago - :)))))

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