It is still early in this companies lifetime - so it remains to be seen if they will keep to their own rules. The fact that they published the rules is indeed a heartening step in the right direction. I hope that other distros follow suit, especially in the category of product lifetime. If Mandrake can follow these rules, they become a more attractive alternative to the jaugernaut that is RedHat, and Suse. This is especially so for corporate rollouts where EOL is important and so is ease of installation. As the "linux market" becomes mor mature each vendor will have to carve out a niche. Mandrakes may be "Easy to install and our support lasts longer than your computer". Refreshing in these days of "rental OS" and forced upgrades.
Ahh my first loves, that PDP 11 that was on the other end of the 9600 baud dedicated circuit when I was 10. Then came our first home computer, chicklet keyboards, basic and I got it at Radio Shack - wow - what a stunner, color graphics and everything. Yes my 6809E powered Color computer
It all went downhill from there - in the room with me now are 3 alpha powered multias. Including the First box I ever ran Linux on. Now I'm surrounded by obsolete sparq boxes, some old X86s and somewhere around here is a dragon 32 I've been thinking of playing with for X10 stuff. Eventually I'll have to get a pdp 11, just so I can say I've come full circle.
On the basis of a lie, the letter coporation XYZ gets from SCO they decide to take action. Mr. coporated uninformed doo doo head purchase a SCO lisence to "protect" his company. Then finds out that the files they claim to have IP rights over were actually authored by someone else. That would be fraud - which is according to webster - DECEIT, TRICKERY; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right
OR
I am small company y barely breaking even. SCO knocks on my door and threatens to sue me if I don't "come into compliance". Since I don't have the money to fight such a suit, and the chance of me delaying it longer than SCO's 9 million/quarter lawyers is about.00000000001, I am forced to pay up or go out of business. That would be extortion which is according to webster - the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property; And the definition of extort would be - to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power
No matter how you slice it, it sounds like a case for a criminal court at this point. Unfortunately the legal definition is often QUITE different from the language definition. Otherwise the members of the RIAA would be doing 15-20 in sing-sing.
Has anyone taken the time to send an official complaint to the SEC? It seems VERY strange that these "revelations" always seem to co-inside with poor stock performance annoucements. It would seem that SCO is intentionally trying to boost it's stock performance by making clearly false statements. I do believe that would be illegal - fraudulent speech isn't protected by the first amendment. IANAL so - is it?
With this decision, perhaps people will be brave enough to go after the bad provisions of the DMCA. While intended to protect copyrighted material the DMCA has been used to stifle research, threaten researchers, prevent disclosure of security bugs and all but make reverse engineering illegal. I believe that the United States needs it's own "DVD-Jon" that will show people that the DMCA is an ill considered poorly written law. So far when the DMCA has been brought into force against teachers, the people pressing charges have backed down. Thus the law stands and there is no clear lightening rod get the publics attention.
You don't _own_ Linux. End of story. There are definite limitations on what you can and can't do with it.
To me "owning" the software means:
I can install it on more than one machine. I can buy a used machine with linux on it and not have to pay the software producer a lisence fee. I can make legal backup copies of the install media.
2 is just silly. Software has bugs, including Linux.
Since the Timberline case, consumers of software don't even have the most rudimentary of protections. If I find a bug in MS software, by some eulas, I cannot tell anyone else about it. In practice it doesn't work this way, but by the book - it should and may someday unless lawmakers step in. Software bugs are one thing, but a totally unreliable product rushed to market that doesn't work is another (Windows ME anyone?) YMMV, but I know of companies that wiped their ME laptops and installed windows 98 as soon as they arrived. Yes - it was that bad.
3. Bullshit. Linux has patches all the time, too.
Yes, but the linux patch for the kernel doesn't force me to download a seperate media player, and associate all media formats with it does it?
4. Umm, hey genius - what do you think you're doing when you download anything that's GPLd? You're giving up reasonable (like the ability to use the software in an internal, proprietary product without giving out YOUR source) rights.
I can tell your the Genius here - Come on now, I know that I miss spelled a word or two in my haste, but really - did you read my post? I said "I expect to not be forced to give up all and any reasonable legal rights". The GPL doesn't force me to give up ANY resonable right. For instance, the right to report a bug to a public forum??
5. Bullshit.
A certain government contractor is now looking at workstations from a company who is named after the star in our solar system. Why? The lisence agreement on XP was deemed "non compatible" with the classified work being done. Apparently the terms of the EULA violate the contractors agreement with the DOD. Not bovine fecal material, but lots of dollars of your tax payer money at work paying the best lawyers in the land to make sure your it's all done "by the book".
Even if your ignorant of the facts, it doensn't change what the facts are.
1. I expect to own software I pay for 2. I expect software I pay for to work as advertised 3. I expect not to be foreced into downloading other components I don't want of said software to keep my machine secure. (IE media player has to be downloaded to make explorer secure) 4. I expect to not be forced to give up all and any reasonable legal rights when I open the package. 5. I do not want to deal with software that guarantees via the liscence agreeement that the publisher can remotely look at my computer at will.
As soon as the law makers get their opposable digit out of their anal orpheus, and restore a modicum of protection to consumers I don't have any faith that any of the points that I have outlined above will be addressed. Lets face it, you pay for the software, break open the box, and you have no legal expectation that the software will work, in any way shape or form.
One: What happens if this rush to off shore "skilled" starts to succeed? We (the US) is the largest consumer of products from around the world, but if skilled labor follows blue collar labor, the amount of people left to spend money on anything goes down. Even though moving that labor forces off shore will increase the purchasing power of the people in the country where the labor went to, their combined purchasing power and demand to purchase anything will not be anywhere close to what the same jobs in the US could produce (at least short to mid term). Judging by what happens to the world economy when the US economy suffers, just how much outsourcing is a good idea? When does it stop benefieting the companies and starts hurting them because they can't sell their products in a poor economic climate?
Two: In the US the commonly held belief is that if you want to get ahead, you get an education, and your hard work and academic achievement will be the keys to your success (Unlike India or China where there are relegious and other cultural pushes for education). If the people stop believing in that, and an education isn't seen as a step up, or providing an advantage less people will pursue it. In an information age isn't one of the most important factos in the labor pool is it's education and technical skill?
It's all about global competition - or so they say. I wonder what the ROI is long term. Since more and more companies are only looking ahead a quarter at a time, just to satisfy the wall street pundits, I bet the ROI is pretty good short term. So how do Western Europeon and American workers compete? Our salaries are higher, and our standard of living is higher. Eventually with enough investement and time India will be a developed nation and these differences will slowly dissapear. Jobs will also probably leak back to the US - but how long do we have to wait, and how do we survive?
In the end the US worker has to offer something that his/her indian counterpart can't. Language, proximity to the project, and superiour skill and/or inovation are just some advantages that people might leverage.
With variation from time to time, the rules that ALWAYS applies to spammers are[From news.admin.net-abuse.email]:
Rule #1: Spammers lie. [(Proposed) Sharp's Corollary: Spammers attempt to re-define "spamming" as that which they do not do.]
Rule #2: If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule #1. Chrissman's Corollary: A spammer, when caught, blames his victims.
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid. Krueger's Corollary: Spammer lies are really stupid. Pickett's Commentary: Spammer lies are boring. Russell's Corollary: Never underestimate the stupidity of spammers.
Alan Cox did a lot of work on the "Alpha Linux" stuff for redhat. He always seemed to have the answers when those of us that used Alpha based machines ran into problems. His "online diary" can be found at http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ and when he was deeply involved in the kernel, I used to read it constantly because the stuff he was working on was the stuff that interested me. This interview just confirms one thing for me. I owe him a great big Thank You, his help to Linux over the years has been invaluable. Should I ever meet Alan, he's going to get a beer on me.
There is more than one way. Anyone that insists that there is only one way, and that is their way, is probably wrong. KDE has advatages over GNOME, and vice versa. Let the flame wars begin - err continue.
You didn't read the post did you? I'm generally D/L ing stuff I already purchased, either on tape or vinyl and am getting it in electronic format. If I enjoy an artists music I buy the CD. Call me silly, but I DO NOT buy music that I listen to on-line and dont like.
The RIAA hasn't learned that necessity is the mother of invention. While they try hard to shove substandard products down our throats (oh yeah I'm sorry, the last Brittany album is a "work of art", my bad") we try hard to pick the weat from teh chaff. Lets face it, if I could by an album with at least 5 good cuts on it, I woulnd't be spending my time taking the albums I own and making MP3 version of just he "good songs". If the Recording industry even paid the artists what they agreed to I might feel guilty about the occasional MP3 download. Since the recording industry has a regular habit of screwing their "artists", I don't.
PS: RIAA - can you prove that I didn't by that PIL album back in 1986, and am now just D/L ing a legitimate eletronique copy? If the encryption on mute is any good, the answer is no. Thankfully I still have my PIL vinyl in case I get dragged into court.
I wonder how this affects performance especially compared to regular user defined functions? (Available in later releases of MySQL). This is indeed an interesting twist. It certainly can help speed up development of large projects (java works well in a large/many programmer env.) Like a lot of other tools, it remains to be seen how people put this to use. Too often people learn one thing, and like the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Lets see where this goes shall we?
Will make it easier for thieves to steal but limit and possibly track them as well. All the thief would have to do is walk up to the register and the victims card is charged. KA CHING It becomes a race, how long can the thief use it before it's discovered stolen and they have to leave it in the submway? Do the police keep the phone running and charges piling up but use the phone to trace the thief to his residence? Is the encryption used by the phone/wireless any better than the encryption used by standard wireless cards (ie how easy is it to sniff for credit card numbers).
The FTC has proven extraordinarily effective combating adds that sell fradulent products. That is why I never recieve adds telling me how to grow bigger/get, tits, dick, wealth or Gold in south africa. We all know that a law that threatens people with government enforcement is going to REALLY scare the spammers.
The only effective law against spammers will be one that allows the spammed to take the consequences out of the cyber world and put it into the real one. The law goes like this. If you have been spammed, goto a judge and prove what machine/person did it. Once done you get a "spammer hunting liscence". This liscence allows you to attack the people that spammed you, and their computers. Acceptable hunting weapons include baseball bats, chainsaws and piano wire. I like the bounty hunter idea, in case your too squeamish to deal with spammers yourself.
Supposedly this is protected information, and as such the court needs to prevent it from becoming part of the "public record". Here is what concerns me.
What if a few lines of code ARE found to be infringing? SCO doesn't have to tell the world what the code is, it just has to prove that the code is in violation. If so SCO can then start trying to collect $$$ from linux users with a fresh court ruling in hand saying that linux 2.4 is in violation. Lets be honest, SCO isn't going to tell you WHERE the offending code is so that you can rip it out and replace it with something else.
I guess it's time to get out my 2.2 series kernels and dust them off.
Some technology in the phone that isn't talked about
It will automatically phone police when if you text "Falun Gong". Also the words democracy, voting and human rights will also cause the phone to dial the appropriate authorities to protect the poor citizen from potential harm. It also helps identify and track citizens that need to be re-educated.
Isn't technology great? **remove tongue from cheek**
Since I've been admining mail servers since 1992, here is what I can tell you.
1. The amount of spam has increased dramatically, and the amount of computing horsepower required to run a mail server has increased as well.
2. Currently we routinely refuse connections from more than 75% of all computers that ATTEMPT an SMTP connection - private open relay block lists. If we didn't do that, double the amount of disk space and computing horsepower required to continue
3. We loose customers when spam assassin doesn't keep up with spammers. They move to Earthlink and other providers that have more money to throw at the problem
4. A server with a common domain name associated with it, that has about ONLY 40 legitimate accounts on it routinely gets more than 100,000 connection attempts every day.
Filtering costs money, CPU disk space and adds expense and complexity to a very simple protocol. The amount of spam is such that some companies have stopped getting mail at their primary domain all together. This is becoming an option exercised more and more. Spam is stopping companies from posting contact information on their website, and pornographic spam, even filtered, makes getting a child an e-mail account risky unless you personally approve every message.
In the end, it's time, money, time and money time and money that the provider spends, that could be used to bring the cost of yoru internet service down, instead of inflating it.
So now we have an AARP member spamming. Does it make any difference to me? It doesn't matter if the theif is a grandma wearing a WWJD T-shirt or a young fella with a ski mask. Theft is theft, and a thief is a thief.
Whats she say to defend her theft - things like "....This (spam) lets the little guy compete". What does she think about the time, energy and costs small providers have to dish out to defend their network against SPAM? How many small guys have had their machines shut down because of false return addresses, or an onslaught of spam that makes mail services crawl? What about those small guys BUZZZZ Wrong answer grandma!
She doesn't stop there, she goes on to say the even more bizzare "When I defend what we do, I talk about free speech". I looked at the constitution to be sure and nowhere did it say "You may steal from others, and then force them to accept your speech into their homes". I believe the consitution protects speech, but doesn't force others to have to accept/listen to ones speech. The amendment is about government cesorship, NOT about theft of services to promote a get rich schemes. BUZZZZ Wrong answer grandma!
So she makes 2000 - 4000 / week. After several years of college I don't make 4k a week, but then again, even if I could improve my economic situation, my personal moral compass wouldn't allow me to what she does. Perhaps she needs to read the bible more. What was it again?? Thou shall not steal?? Thou shall not bear false witness?? - Stuff like that.
With 80% or more of all e-mail being spam, the signal to noise ratio is heading south fast. To stop spam you have to stop spammers.
Here is the towns website http://www.slidell.la.us
Now can any one let me know which provider provides this type of person with access? I have some IP blocks to add to my blacklist.
According to information - Flo Fox - Slidell LA 985 646 2225
I don't know if that number is correct - but it's publically listed.
You'll notice that the entire point is that Groklaw has now established these contributors had policy/supervisor approval.
That doesn't mean that SCO won't claim otherwise, or claim that the person that authorized such contributions didn't have the authority to do so. Lets face it, it's not like telling a falsehood is a problem for SCO. That is my point from the first post albeit not well made. I assumed everyone had read the article and would infer that I was impying that SCO would lie about the companies past contributions:) - I posted too quickly -
One good point has already been made, the the programmers are not rogue.
That doesn't mean that SCO won't claim otherwise, or claim that the person that authorized such contributions didn't have the authority to do so. Lets face it, it's not like telling a falsehood is a problem for SCO. That is my point from the first post albeit not well made. I assumed everyone had read the article and would infer that I was impying that SCO would lie about the companies past contributions:) - I posted too quickly -
While your analysis is interesting, I think there is enough legal history in the BSD case to make it hard for SCO to pursue that "all of linux is in violation".
"Groklaw today reported that they have discovered another SCO programmer, Tigran Aivazian, who has committed code to the Linux kernel."
My take is that if a SCO programmer contributed code, then of course SCO wanted the code contributed and it then falls under the GPL. This seems reasonable. The idea that worries me is that SCO may claim that the programmer(s) was/were rogue and made the contributions against their "corporate policy". Then what do you do? The genie is out of the bottle, you can't take it back and who does SCO go after - the programer or the Linux community?
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It is still early in this companies lifetime - so it remains to be seen if they will keep to their own rules. The fact that they published the rules is indeed a heartening step in the right direction. I hope that other distros follow suit, especially in the category of product lifetime. If Mandrake can follow these rules, they become a more attractive alternative to the jaugernaut that is RedHat, and Suse. This is especially so for corporate rollouts where EOL is important and so is ease of installation. As the "linux market" becomes mor mature each vendor will have to carve out a niche. Mandrakes may be "Easy to install and our support lasts longer than your computer". Refreshing in these days of "rental OS" and forced upgrades.
AngryPeopleRule
Ahh my first loves, that PDP 11 that was on the other end of the 9600 baud dedicated circuit when I was 10. Then came our first home computer, chicklet keyboards, basic and I got it at Radio Shack - wow - what a stunner, color graphics and everything. Yes my 6809E powered Color computer
It all went downhill from there - in the room with me now are 3 alpha powered multias. Including the First box I ever ran Linux on. Now I'm surrounded by obsolete sparq boxes, some old X86s and somewhere around here is a
dragon 32 I've been thinking of playing with for X10 stuff. Eventually I'll have to get a pdp 11, just so I can say I've come full circle.
AngryPeopleRule
On the basis of a lie, the letter coporation XYZ gets from SCO they decide to take action. Mr. coporated uninformed doo doo head purchase a SCO lisence to "protect" his company. Then finds out that the files they claim to have IP rights over were actually authored by someone else. That would be fraud - which is according to webster -
.00000000001, I am forced to pay up or go out of business. That would be extortion
DECEIT, TRICKERY; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right
OR
I am small company y barely breaking even. SCO knocks on my door and threatens to sue me if I don't "come into compliance". Since I don't have the money to fight such a suit, and the chance of me delaying it longer than SCO's 9 million/quarter lawyers is about
which is according to webster - the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property; And the definition of extort would be - to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power
No matter how you slice it, it sounds like a case for a criminal court at this point. Unfortunately the legal definition is often QUITE different from the language definition. Otherwise the members of the RIAA would be doing 15-20 in sing-sing.
AngryPeopleRule
Has anyone taken the time to send an official complaint to the SEC? It seems VERY strange that these "revelations" always seem to co-inside with poor stock performance annoucements. It would seem that SCO is intentionally trying to boost it's stock performance by making clearly false statements. I do believe that would be illegal - fraudulent speech isn't protected by the first amendment. IANAL so - is it?
AngryPeopleRule
With this decision, perhaps people will be brave enough to go after the bad provisions of the DMCA. While intended to protect copyrighted material the DMCA has been used to stifle research, threaten researchers, prevent disclosure of security bugs and all but make reverse engineering illegal. I believe that the United States needs it's own "DVD-Jon" that will show people that the DMCA is an ill considered poorly written law. So far when the DMCA has been brought into force against teachers, the people pressing charges have backed down. Thus the law stands and there is no clear lightening rod get the publics attention.
The US needs a DVD-Jon - any takers?
AngryPeopleRule
You don't _own_ Linux. End of story. There are definite limitations on what you can and can't do with it.
To me "owning" the software means:
I can install it on more than one machine.
I can buy a used machine with linux on it and not have to pay the software producer a lisence fee.
I can make legal backup copies of the install media.
2 is just silly. Software has bugs, including Linux.
Since the Timberline case, consumers of software don't even have the most rudimentary of protections. If I find a bug in MS software, by some eulas, I cannot tell anyone else about it. In practice it doesn't work this way, but by the book - it should and may someday unless lawmakers step in. Software bugs are one thing, but a totally unreliable product rushed to market that doesn't work is another (Windows ME anyone?) YMMV, but I know of companies that wiped their ME laptops and installed windows 98 as soon as they arrived. Yes - it was that bad.
3. Bullshit. Linux has patches all the time, too.
Yes, but the linux patch for the kernel doesn't force me to download a seperate media player, and associate all media formats with it does it?
4. Umm, hey genius - what do you think you're doing when you download anything that's GPLd? You're giving up reasonable (like the ability to use the software in an internal, proprietary product without giving out YOUR source) rights.
I can tell your the Genius here - Come on now, I know that I miss spelled a word or two in my haste, but really - did you read my post? I said "I expect to not be forced to give up all and any reasonable legal rights". The GPL doesn't force me to give up ANY resonable right. For instance, the right to report a bug to a public forum??
5. Bullshit.
A certain government contractor is now looking at workstations from a company who is named after the star in our solar system. Why? The lisence agreement on XP was deemed "non compatible" with the classified work being done. Apparently the terms of the EULA violate the contractors agreement with the DOD. Not bovine fecal material, but lots of dollars of your tax payer money at work paying the best lawyers in the land to make sure your it's all done "by the book".
Even if your ignorant of the facts, it doensn't change what the facts are.
AngryPeopleRule
Dear Mr MS Marketing,
I use linux because
1. I expect to own software I pay for
2. I expect software I pay for to work as advertised
3. I expect not to be foreced into downloading other components I don't want of said software to keep my machine secure. (IE media player has to be downloaded to make explorer secure)
4. I expect to not be forced to give up all and any reasonable legal rights when I open the package.
5. I do not want to deal with software that guarantees via the liscence agreeement that the publisher can remotely look at my computer at will.
As soon as the law makers get their opposable digit out of their anal orpheus, and restore a modicum of protection to consumers I don't have any faith that any of the points that I have outlined above will be addressed. Lets face it, you pay for the software, break open the box, and you have no legal expectation that the software will work, in any way shape or form.
AngryPeopleRule
2 ideas that spring to mind here:
One: What happens if this rush to off shore "skilled" starts to succeed? We (the US) is the largest consumer of products from around the world, but if skilled labor follows blue collar labor, the amount of people left to spend money on anything goes down. Even though moving that labor forces off shore will increase the purchasing power of the people in the country where the labor went to, their combined purchasing power and demand to purchase anything will not be anywhere close to what the same jobs in the US could produce (at least short to mid term). Judging by what happens to the world economy when the US economy suffers, just how much outsourcing is a good idea? When does it stop benefieting the companies and starts hurting them because they can't sell their products in a poor economic climate?
Two: In the US the commonly held belief is that if you want to get ahead, you get an education, and your hard work and academic achievement will be the keys to your success (Unlike India or China where there are relegious and other cultural pushes for education). If the people stop believing in that, and an education isn't seen as a step up, or providing an advantage less people will pursue it. In an information age isn't one of the most important factos in the labor pool is it's education and technical skill?
It's all about global competition - or so they say. I wonder what the ROI is long term. Since more and more companies are only looking ahead a quarter at a time, just to satisfy the wall street pundits, I bet the ROI is pretty good short term. So how do Western Europeon and American workers compete? Our salaries are higher, and our standard of living is higher. Eventually with enough investement and time India will be a developed nation and these differences will slowly dissapear. Jobs will also probably leak back to the US - but how long do we have to wait, and how do we survive?
In the end the US worker has to offer something that his/her indian counterpart can't. Language, proximity to the project, and superiour skill and/or inovation are just some advantages that people might leverage.
AngryPeopleRule
With variation from time to time, the rules that ALWAYS applies to spammers are[From news.admin.net-abuse.email]:
Rule #1: Spammers lie.
[(Proposed) Sharp's Corollary: Spammers attempt to re-define "spamming" as that which they do not do.]
Rule #2: If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule #1.
Chrissman's Corollary: A spammer, when caught, blames his victims.
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
Krueger's Corollary: Spammer lies are really stupid. Pickett's Commentary: Spammer lies are boring. Russell's Corollary: Never underestimate the stupidity of spammers.
I say see rule #1 when listening to a spammer.
AngryPeopleRule
Alan Cox did a lot of work on the "Alpha Linux" stuff for redhat. He always seemed to have the answers when those of us that used Alpha based machines ran into problems. His "online diary" can be found at http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ and when he was deeply involved in the kernel, I used to read it constantly because the stuff he was working on was the stuff that interested me. This interview just confirms one thing for me. I owe him a great big Thank You, his help to Linux over the years has been invaluable. Should I ever meet Alan, he's going to get a beer on me.
AngryPeopleRule
There is more than one way. Anyone that insists that there is only one way, and that is their way, is probably wrong. KDE has advatages over GNOME, and vice versa. Let the flame wars begin - err continue.
AngryPeopleRule
Yeah, chalk that up to my genetics. I have the "all thumbs" jene, err geen, err, jean, ARAGHAAH!!!! gene
You didn't read the post did you? I'm generally D/L ing stuff I already purchased, either on tape or vinyl and am getting it in electronic format. If I enjoy an artists music I buy the CD. Call me silly, but I DO NOT buy music that I listen to on-line and dont like.
The RIAA hasn't learned that necessity is the mother of invention. While they try hard to shove substandard products down our throats (oh yeah I'm sorry, the last Brittany album is a "work of art", my bad") we try hard to pick the weat from teh chaff. Lets face it, if I could by an album with at least 5 good cuts on it, I woulnd't be spending my time taking the albums I own and making MP3 version of just he "good songs". If the Recording industry even paid the artists what they agreed to I might feel guilty about the occasional MP3 download. Since the recording industry has a regular habit of screwing their "artists", I don't.
PS: RIAA - can you prove that I didn't by that PIL album back in 1986, and am now just D/L ing a legitimate eletronique copy? If the encryption on mute is any good, the answer is no. Thankfully I still have my PIL vinyl in case I get dragged into court.
AngryPeopleRule
I wonder how this affects performance especially compared to regular user defined functions? (Available in later releases of MySQL). This is indeed an interesting twist. It certainly can help speed up development of large projects (java works well in a large/many programmer env.) Like a lot of other tools, it remains to be seen how people put this to use. Too often people learn one thing, and like the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Lets see where this goes shall we?
Will make it easier for thieves to steal but limit and possibly track them as well. All the thief would have to do is walk up to the register and the victims card is charged. KA CHING It becomes a race, how long can the thief use it before it's discovered stolen and they have to leave it in the submway? Do the police keep the phone running and charges piling up but use the phone to trace the thief to his residence? Is the encryption used by the phone/wireless any better than the encryption used by standard wireless cards (ie how easy is it to sniff for credit card numbers).
The world of thievery just got more interesting
AngryPeopleRule
The FTC has proven extraordinarily effective combating adds that sell fradulent products. That is why I never recieve adds telling me how to grow bigger/get, tits, dick, wealth or Gold in south africa. We all know that a law that threatens people with government enforcement is going to REALLY scare the spammers.
The only effective law against spammers will be one that allows the spammed to take the consequences out of the cyber world and put it into the real one. The law goes like this. If you have been spammed, goto a judge and prove what machine/person did it. Once done you get a "spammer hunting liscence". This liscence allows you to attack the people that spammed you, and their computers. Acceptable hunting weapons include baseball bats, chainsaws and piano wire. I like the bounty hunter idea, in case your too squeamish to deal with spammers yourself.
Am I pissed off about spam? You bet I am
AngryPeopleRule
Supposedly this is protected information, and as such the court needs to prevent it from becoming part of the "public record". Here is what concerns me.
What if a few lines of code ARE found to be infringing? SCO doesn't have to tell the world what the code is, it just has to prove that the code is in violation. If so SCO can then start trying to collect $$$ from linux users with a fresh court ruling in hand saying that linux 2.4 is in violation. Lets be honest, SCO isn't going to tell you WHERE the offending code is so that you can rip it out and replace it with something else.
I guess it's time to get out my 2.2 series kernels and dust them off.
AngryPeopleRule
Actually it only phones the police if you spell the word christmas within 500 feet of a public school.
Some technology in the phone that isn't talked about
It will automatically phone police when if you text "Falun Gong". Also the words democracy, voting and human rights will also cause the phone to dial the appropriate authorities to protect the poor citizen from potential harm. It also helps identify and track citizens that need to be re-educated.
Isn't technology great? **remove tongue from cheek**
AngryPeopleRule
Since I've been admining mail servers since 1992, here is what I can tell you.
1. The amount of spam has increased dramatically, and the amount of computing horsepower required to run a mail server has increased as well.
2. Currently we routinely refuse connections from more than 75% of all computers that ATTEMPT an SMTP connection - private open relay block lists. If we didn't do that, double the amount of disk space and computing horsepower required to continue
3. We loose customers when spam assassin doesn't keep up with spammers. They move to Earthlink and other providers that have more money to throw at the problem
4. A server with a common domain name associated with it, that has about ONLY 40 legitimate accounts on it routinely gets more than 100,000 connection attempts every day.
Filtering costs money, CPU disk space and adds expense and complexity to a very simple protocol. The amount of spam is such that some companies have stopped getting mail at their primary domain all together. This is becoming an option exercised more and more. Spam is stopping companies from posting contact information on their website, and pornographic spam, even filtered, makes getting a child an e-mail account risky unless you personally approve every message.
In the end, it's time, money, time and money time and money that the provider spends, that could be used to bring the cost of yoru internet service down, instead of inflating it.
AngryPeopleRule
So now we have an AARP member spamming. Does it make any difference to me? It doesn't matter if the theif is a grandma wearing a WWJD T-shirt or a young fella with a ski mask. Theft is theft, and a thief is a thief.
Whats she say to defend her theft - things like "....This (spam) lets the little guy compete". What does she think about the time, energy and costs small providers have to dish out to defend their network against SPAM? How many small guys have had their machines shut down because of false return addresses, or an onslaught of spam that makes mail services crawl? What about those small guys BUZZZZ Wrong answer grandma!
She doesn't stop there, she goes on to say the even more bizzare "When I defend what we do, I talk about free speech". I looked at the constitution to be sure and nowhere did it say "You may steal from others, and then force them to accept your speech into their homes". I believe the consitution protects speech, but doesn't force others to have to accept/listen to ones speech. The amendment is about government cesorship, NOT about theft of services to promote a get rich schemes. BUZZZZ Wrong answer grandma!
So she makes 2000 - 4000 / week. After several years of college I don't make 4k a week, but then again, even if I could improve my economic situation, my personal moral compass wouldn't allow me to what she does. Perhaps she needs to read the bible more. What was it again?? Thou shall not steal?? Thou shall not bear false witness?? - Stuff like that.
With 80% or more of all e-mail being spam, the signal to noise ratio is heading south fast. To stop spam you have to stop spammers.
Here is the towns website
http://www.slidell.la.us
Now can any one let me know which provider provides this type of person with access? I have some IP blocks to add to my blacklist.
According to information -
Flo Fox - Slidell LA
985 646 2225
I don't know if that number is correct - but it's publically listed.
AngryPeopleRule
That doesn't mean that SCO won't claim otherwise, or claim that the person that authorized such contributions didn't have the authority to do so. Lets face it, it's not like telling a falsehood is a problem for SCO. That is my point from the first post albeit not well made. I assumed everyone had read the article and would infer that I was impying that SCO would lie about the companies past contributions
Angry People Rule
That doesn't mean that SCO won't claim otherwise, or claim that the person that authorized such contributions didn't have the authority to do so. Lets face it, it's not like telling a falsehood is a problem for SCO. That is my point from the first post albeit not well made. I assumed everyone had read the article and would infer that I was impying that SCO would lie about the companies past contributions
While your analysis is interesting, I think there is enough legal history in the BSD case to make it hard for SCO to pursue that "all of linux is in violation".
AngryPeopleRule
"Groklaw today reported that they have discovered another SCO programmer, Tigran Aivazian, who has committed code to the Linux kernel."
My take is that if a SCO programmer contributed code, then of course SCO wanted the code contributed and it then falls under the GPL. This seems reasonable. The idea that worries me is that SCO may claim that the programmer(s) was/were rogue and made the contributions against their "corporate policy". Then what do you do? The genie is out of the bottle, you can't take it back and who does SCO go after - the programer or the Linux community?
AngryPeopleRule