A member of my church asked me for help on an assignment he had for his college business writing class. The assignment was to write a cover letter and resume. Initially, I was glad to help because I had exprience with reviewing resumes and interviewing from both sides of the table.
He brought over his resume. I think it was formatted from a Microsoft Office template. His cover letter was a close copy of the one from his text book. I tried to convince him to scrap this stuff and write a resume and a base cover letter that might help him get an internship during the summer. Instead, he just wanted to follow the text book and template to get a good grade. Well, if he wasn't going to spend time on it, either was I. I looked at them, corrected the spelling and grammar and sent him on his way.
"'Listen real clearly to what's happening here,' McBride said by telephone from his Lindon office in early January. 'The situation is that we used to be the leader... we were where Red Hat [the No. 1 Linux distributor] is now. Linux then comes in, with Red Hat being the ringleader, and really attacks our [UNIX] market share and our marketplace..."
from the search warrant, it looks as though just about anybody who has bought a valve product (valve software or manuals) or even just surfed over to their website (ip address in web browser history) or contacted anybody at their office via email (product support) would qualify for a visit from the secret service / fbi.
a law must be enacted where computers can not be held for a certain period of time (5 business days) unless charges are brought up against the owner. the 5 days would give the confiscator enough time to copy the hard drives on the machines. if not, why should the citizen be responsible for the time it takes the secret service / fbi to analyze the contents of a hard drive. this kind of reminds me of the ibm sco case.
china will have more success with its manned missions because they will be more willing to accept the risk of losing an astronaut, two or ten. in china, i think that there is still a strong sense of giving everything for your mother country. i also believe that people in such a populated country try to find ways to distinguish themselves from everybody else even if it means death.
why should linus or anybody else waste their time and respond to SCO? every accusation they have made against linux has been unfounded or misconceived.
this should be linus' response to all the crap SCO dishes out:
"In this war of words, there are two parties: one party that offers the truth based upon documented fact and one party that offers false accusations based upon delusions. Anybody is able to view the work we have done to make Linux one of the best operating systems in the world. We do not hide anything. Who is telling you the truth and who is corrupt by self-delusion?"
take this example email to a corporate user from a malicious person. the email is a simple example, i'm sure other more complex examples can be created:
To: corporate user From: corporate help desk Subject: MANDATORY: Username and password verification
Last night, one of our authentication servers went down and we need to rebuild the our database. To make this process easier for us, please use the form below to verify your username and password.
http://our.corporate.intranet%01@www.malicious_s it e.com/username_and_password_verification.html
Thank you for your cooperation.
IT Help Desk
===
i can't believe that MS is just considering a patch for this. i would write to your corporate internet security officer and urge this person to take a look at this MS IE vulnerability and also to switch to Mozilla. this could be mozilla's chance.
this e-bomb would have been useful in the 80s before everything had a circuit board.
i remember reading an article about the east coast black out where auto flushing toilets ceased to work. so much stuff has circuitry in it. as i look around my cube and office: phone, computer, speakers, watch, wall clock, lights, thermostat, water fountain, auto-on/off lights in the bathroom, elevators.
i would think that dropping this type of bomb on the downtown of a top 1000 most developed city in the world would have some devastating affects. it would almost make it worth it to do it the old way of precision bombing targets.
if the bomb were to hit equipment that was responsible for pumping water or treating sewage. it would not be a good day.
i just did a google search for goatse. among the original and copycat goatse pics, i found this one. i always wondered what i looked like when i first viewed the real goatse pic. this photograph speaks volumes. (don't worry, it's not dirty.)
http://www.cellosoft.com/nash/garbage/photos/chr is d_AFTER_goatse.jpg
Does anybody know of any lawyers or legal organizations that will help developers send cease and desist letters or help them start a lawsuit (for free)? I think a generic cease and desist letter that was drawn up by a lawyer, but could be used by any of the developers would be good.
a while back i read an article about google and it said that some of the search phrases are displayed by a projector behind the "receptionists desk". everybody start searching for "GOOGLE DONT MERGE WITH MICROSOFT!" perhaps some of those will be displayed. if not, it will probably become one of the top search phrases for the day.
wasn't their talk about linus torvalds and richard stallman coming up with a GPL alternative that they would release linux under if it came down to that?
i can't believe it would come down to that... i hope to God it does not. i would lose all faith that i have in this country's law system.
after the columbia disaster, i asked myself why the NASA space program has not taken us to Mars after a great start in the 60s and 70s... i came down to the realization that the people in the space program then were all working towards a common goal without financial rewards, working long hours away from their families, etc. in the same light, i see the open source movement. for it to be swept away by the greed of a few would be heart breaking....
hypothetically after SCO collects the billions from IBM, don't the copyright holders of the linux source code who contributed their code to linux under GPL have the right to sue SCO for illegally distributing their code in the caldera distribution? i think this point has been brought up before.
Coordinate a day with other Half Life Linux Server administrators to select a day once a week, two weeks, or month to turn off your Half Life Linux Server. Make sure that the creators of Half Life 2 know that the reason that you are doing this is to convince them to release a Linux client of HL2.
if a worker bee at SCO is in disagreement with how the queen bee is leading the hive, then that worker bee has a few options:
1) leave the hive - which many of you have pointed out is difficult to do in this economy.
2) disable the queen bee or hive from within - which is illegal.
3) continue working, but also aid the open source bees by anonymously posting useful information on SCO to outlets such as slashdot.org, f_ckedcompany.com, stock forums - which may be illegal.
4) continue working as a complacent worker bee and live with the guilt that that which you once helped build is now being destroyed by the non-worker queen bee.
i'm analyzing options for worker bees at SCO, not recommending or asking that they follow my analysis.
please visit stock bulletin boards or other financial forums and let them know where they can get some honest opinions on the FUD that SCO continues to spread:
i was also disappointed. this flash video was the first that i saw an aibo in movement either live or by video. although i knew it wouldn't be anything like the teddy bear on AI, i at least thought it would have more movement that a near blind, 99 year old elderly person using a walker.
does anybody know or have any videos on how the other japanese robot (the 3ft humanoid) moves?
"Last and, according to Microsoft, of least significance is a hole in NetBIOS that a hacker could use to view information on a Windows PC or server. At worst, Toulouse says, a hacker might see "fragmented and random" data in system memory."
so an individual who exploited this hole on a government computer could potentially see:
if this one person attempts to buy a license with monopoly money and if SCO were to write back refusing the monopoly money as payment, then SCO must pay the postage on their response. if N people tried Y times to buy licenses with monopoly money, then SCO would be forced to pay the postage for X * Y responses.
we might not all like redhat (the distro), but you gotta admit, redhat (the company) just did what everybody that is against sco has been wanting the day that this whole nightmare started...
Slashdot Mirror
A member of my church asked me for help on an assignment he had for his college business writing class. The assignment was to write a cover letter and resume. Initially, I was glad to help because I had exprience with reviewing resumes and interviewing from both sides of the table.
He brought over his resume. I think it was formatted from a Microsoft Office template. His cover letter was a close copy of the one from his text book. I tried to convince him to scrap this stuff and write a resume and a base cover letter that might help him get an internship during the summer. Instead, he just wanted to follow the text book and template to get a good grade. Well, if he wasn't going to spend time on it, either was I. I looked at them, corrected the spelling and grammar and sent him on his way.
"I'm abusing my power as Slashdot editor to ask for experiences with this (or similiar) services."
YES YOU ARE.
You should have submitted your "Ask Slashdot" article to another editor to be reviewed and accepted or rejected.
"'Listen real clearly to what's happening here,' McBride said by telephone from his Lindon office in early January. 'The situation is that we used to be the leader ... we were where Red Hat [the No. 1 Linux distributor] is now. Linux then comes in, with Red Hat being the ringleader, and really attacks our [UNIX] market share and our marketplace..."
self-explanatory
a law must be enacted where computers can not be held for a certain period of time (5 business days) unless charges are brought up against the owner. the 5 days would give the confiscator enough time to copy the hard drives on the machines. if not, why should the citizen be responsible for the time it takes the secret service / fbi to analyze the contents of a hard drive. this kind of reminds me of the ibm sco case.
china will have more success with its manned missions because they will be more willing to accept the risk of losing an astronaut, two or ten. in china, i think that there is still a strong sense of giving everything for your mother country. i also believe that people in such a populated country try to find ways to distinguish themselves from everybody else even if it means death.
why should linus or anybody else waste their time and respond to SCO? every accusation they have made against linux has been unfounded or misconceived.
this should be linus' response to all the crap SCO dishes out:
"In this war of words, there are two parties: one party that offers the truth based upon documented fact and one party that offers false accusations based upon delusions. Anybody is able to view the work we have done to make Linux one of the best operating systems in the world. We do not hide anything. Who is telling you the truth and who is corrupt by self-delusion?"
take this example email to a corporate user from a malicious person. the email is a simple example, i'm sure other more complex examples can be created:
s it e.com/username_and_password_verification.html
To: corporate user
From: corporate help desk
Subject: MANDATORY: Username and password verification
Last night, one of our authentication servers went down and we need to rebuild the our database. To make this process easier for us, please use the form below to verify your username and password.
http://our.corporate.intranet%01@www.malicious_
Thank you for your cooperation.
IT Help Desk
===
i can't believe that MS is just considering a patch for this. i would write to your corporate internet security officer and urge this person to take a look at this MS IE vulnerability and also to switch to Mozilla. this could be mozilla's chance.
just read the article more carefully and noticed that they are working on very localized e bombs / rays. sorry.
this e-bomb would have been useful in the 80s before everything had a circuit board.
i remember reading an article about the east coast black out where auto flushing toilets ceased to work. so much stuff has circuitry in it. as i look around my cube and office: phone, computer, speakers, watch, wall clock, lights, thermostat, water fountain, auto-on/off lights in the bathroom, elevators.
i would think that dropping this type of bomb on the downtown of a top 1000 most developed city in the world would have some devastating affects. it would almost make it worth it to do it the old way of precision bombing targets.
if the bomb were to hit equipment that was responsible for pumping water or treating sewage. it would not be a good day.
just some thoughts...
here is a link to an alternate article on the subject:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031106/tech_sco_1.html
i just did a google search for goatse. among the original and copycat goatse pics, i found this one. i always wondered what i looked like when i first viewed the real goatse pic. this photograph speaks volumes. (don't worry, it's not dirty.)
r is d_AFTER_goatse.jpg
http://www.cellosoft.com/nash/garbage/photos/ch
Does anybody know of any lawyers or legal organizations that will help developers send cease and desist letters or help them start a lawsuit (for free)? I think a generic cease and desist letter that was drawn up by a lawyer, but could be used by any of the developers would be good.
Just a thought...
Andrew
a while back i read an article about google and it said that some of the search phrases are displayed by a projector behind the "receptionists desk". everybody start searching for "GOOGLE DONT MERGE WITH MICROSOFT!" perhaps some of those will be displayed. if not, it will probably become one of the top search phrases for the day.
wasn't their talk about linus torvalds and richard stallman coming up with a GPL alternative that they would release linux under if it came down to that?
...
i can't believe it would come down to that... i hope to God it does not. i would lose all faith that i have in this country's law system.
after the columbia disaster, i asked myself why the NASA space program has not taken us to Mars after a great start in the 60s and 70s... i came down to the realization that the people in the space program then were all working towards a common goal without financial rewards, working long hours away from their families, etc. in the same light, i see the open source movement. for it to be swept away by the greed of a few would be heart breaking.
andrew
hypothetically after SCO collects the billions from IBM, don't the copyright holders of the linux source code who contributed their code to linux under GPL have the right to sue SCO for illegally distributing their code in the caldera distribution? i think this point has been brought up before.
IANAL
andrew
it can set new records on how quickly it crashes.
Coordinate a day with other Half Life Linux Server administrators to select a day once a week, two weeks, or month to turn off your Half Life Linux Server. Make sure that the creators of Half Life 2 know that the reason that you are doing this is to convince them to release a Linux client of HL2.
drive to sco parking lot with reactor and have nuclear accident. i guess parking across the street would suffice.
if a worker bee at SCO is in disagreement with how the queen bee is leading the hive, then that worker bee has a few options:
1) leave the hive - which many of you have pointed out is difficult to do in this economy.
2) disable the queen bee or hive from within - which is illegal.
3) continue working, but also aid the open source bees by anonymously posting useful information on SCO to outlets such as slashdot.org, f_ckedcompany.com, stock forums - which may be illegal.
4) continue working as a complacent worker bee and live with the guilt that that which you once helped build is now being destroyed by the non-worker queen bee.
i'm analyzing options for worker bees at SCO, not recommending or asking that they follow my analysis.
to all of my slashdot compatriots:
please visit stock bulletin boards or other financial forums and let them know where they can get some honest opinions on the FUD that SCO continues to spread:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=88
andrew
i was also disappointed. this flash video was the first that i saw an aibo in movement either live or by video. although i knew it wouldn't be anything like the teddy bear on AI, i at least thought it would have more movement that a near blind, 99 year old elderly person using a walker.
does anybody know or have any videos on how the other japanese robot (the 3ft humanoid) moves?
i like this part -
"Last and, according to Microsoft, of least significance is a hole in NetBIOS that a hacker could use to view information on a Windows PC or server. At worst, Toulouse says, a hacker might see "fragmented and random" data in system memory."
so an individual who exploited this hole on a government computer could potentially see:
alsdfakshflkahsd LAUNCH CODES 1234567890 liasdflashfkkh
if this one person attempts to buy a license with monopoly money and if SCO were to write back refusing the monopoly money as payment, then SCO must pay the postage on their response. if N people tried Y times to buy licenses with monopoly money, then SCO would be forced to pay the postage for X * Y responses.
disclaimer: i am not suggesting that you do this.
SCO DOES!
we might not all like redhat (the distro), but you gotta admit, redhat (the company) just did what everybody that is against sco has been wanting the day that this whole nightmare started...
GO REDHAT!
GO LINUX!
GO OPEN SOURCE!