I am not sure that it will, at least until someone gets balls enough to actually go after the source of the money for SCO (dare I even mention the redmond washington firm whoes involvement is already public knowledge?).
as far as it goes, this is just another dealying tactic. really, by the time this even gets to a real trial, the kernel source in question will have changed to the point that it won't be relevant.
I just wish the judge in this matter would put it to rest, dimiss the case with predjudice and fine the current and former SCO board of directors with wasting the courts time, fraud and a few other choice charges.
comparing those who defy the mpaa and others as terrorists is a lot like call the kettle black.
This behavior on the part of the mpaa strikes me as someone (the mpaa) acting out of panic, not informed thought.
The mpaa (and others) really should be embracing the net as a possible revenue stream. it would certainly make their product available over a much wider spectrum of the viewing public.
So my question is this: what are they so afriad of?
I wonder if M$ (tm) will be true to form at take 1-2 years before they include accessibility for the blind/visually impaired (previously, it took M$ being sued under the ADA before they made it "easier" to have such tools work)?
besides, I don't use windows (much). only reason I would have to use it is to provide "tech support" to ohers not as familiar with it.
I still get that fairly often when I shop at fry's here in Phoenix. still, one has to wonder how clueless these "customers" are when they ask a BLIND PERSON where something is or if something will do somthing or other...
Granted, I am a bit more knowledgable than the "customer circus" guys that are the store employees. but still, asking a clearly blind person for help when there are a half dozen employees loitering nearby? whats the sense in that?
the bureacracy is son controlled by the corporate types that only those things they want to market ever get looked at.
blindness and other disabilities always take a back seat unless a real celebrity comes along to get the message out (remember Christopher Reeves?).
add to this the general public apathy that nothing anyone says is going to do much to change things... well, you get the idea.
btw, just so you know, I happen to be blind. I have no eyesight at all. it took me 5 years to acquire (on my own) equipment to be able to access the net and I had to do it on what the government pays in disability ($600.00/month). 5 years, scrimping and saving and bartering and "horse trading". thats a long time just for "equal access".
ah well, I am here and no matter what the powers-that-be say, I am not going away.
and what is to stop some pedophile from getting these and giving them out to kids?
this kind of technology (in its current form) can be abused in frightening ways.
consider a situation where such a child predator hands out phones to unsuspecting kids. said phonmes are setup such that you cannot make outgoing calls. at that point, its no more than a "harmless toy" and most parents will see it as such.
then, at some future point (days, weeks, etc) said predator snatches the kid(s).
I dare say it gives a person pause to think of the ugly possibilities of abuse of such a potentially "helpful" technology.
how would we make sure that the right people (parents) get these devices?
an interesting point with those with "fast cortexes"
it seems that such people are often misdiagnosed as having adhd (the willful behavior, bouncing off the walls, etc). such a misdiagnosis (and the resulting medicinal push) can have disasterous effects upon the these children (I should know, I was one of those kids 30+ years ago).
perhaps we should be looking for better alternatives than having the parents insist on doping up their kids to control them easier.
just some thoughts from a "child of the pharmecuitical age"
there was a PDF of the letter sent by the attorney's of record in that case.
A couple of small problems arise though: 1. the case file ID does not match anything on record in the state of New york 2. the indicated case material is for health care litigation and recovery of fees.
I hate to say this folks, but someone put over a very good forgery on the blogs.
gee, its starting to look like something out of George Orwell's "1984" around here. Pretty soon, its going to be "any data you produce is no longer your property, especially if it was produced on a proprietary (read that "closed source") third party application.
India is starting to see the same sets of problems.... oh yeah, do go to china (as an outside), their government doesn't like the competition (china is probably the 1 place with the highest level of dvd piracy on the entire planet and they export that to the tune of $30 Billion USD annually).
I am wondering what is up with those "congress critters". don't they realize that some of us are relegated to the analog world without any choice?
My case in point: I cannot read in the normal fashion (I am blind) and thus I depend on text-to-speech conversion (ultimate result: digital to analog conversion). This is pretty much true for my audio equipment as well (and the new digital only stuff would be priced well out of my reach anyway)
now, enough about me. here's the problem I see (sic): the media companies are wanting congress to mind their "bread and butter" with these new laws, but whats its really going to do is to kill their business model off. They (the media companies) *think* they are doing the smart thing right now. I wonder how its going to be before they realize they've cut their own throat?
/Quote
Honestly, I see this as a real exposure to a lawsuit. If I accidently install this rootkit on my system, then try to remove it (seeing as it looks like a genuine security breach) and then disable my computer, thus having to bring it in for service what then?. If a malware company uses the rootkits ability to hide $sys$ prefixed files and uses that to steal my identity, costing me thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of time to get my identity back, can I sue?/quote
Short answer: yes you can sue.
A more involved answer: you can, but how much money have you got to spend on it?
Remeber, sony is a very big monster. its going to take a few hits before it gets knocked down (took the state of New York 5 years to bring the suit into Federal court and get a judgement in the sony/disc jockey payola case).
I am not sure to take this as a joke or seriously......
seriously though, I have lived in a few places in my life that were bonnified police states (the former soviet union, yugoslavia, egypt, etc). travelling with the family as a kid because your parents worked for the government was fun in some ways (and terrifying in others).
I witnessed the results of police states first hands. first rule of thumb: such a state acts for its own interest first and cares very little for the individual. anyone not conforming to the "states" ideal is labeled a threat and "disappeared".
well, it seems to me that it is becomming increasingly obvious that we are slipping toward a police state here in the US.:(
This latest policy statement flies in the face of the first (and 5th) amendments to the US consititution. I begin to wonder how long it will be before that venerable document is shredded?
*sigh* yet one more little piece of our rights chissled away at.
at this point, I'd say blame the suits. they are much more interested in their bottom line and don't have the time or inclination to deal with the network/email/news admin types.
Thats the basic problem of having a bottom line mentality, as opposed to a QOS mentality.
Slashdot Mirror
"Seriously, when will this SCO shit end?"
I am not sure that it will, at least until someone gets balls
enough to actually go after the source of the money for SCO
(dare I even mention the redmond washington firm whoes involvement
is already public knowledge?).
as far as it goes, this is just another dealying tactic. really,
by the time this even gets to a real trial, the kernel source in
question will have changed to the point that it won't be relevant.
I just wish the judge in this matter would put it to rest,
dimiss the case with predjudice and fine the current and former
SCO board of directors with wasting the courts time, fraud and a
few other choice charges.
comparing those who defy the mpaa and others as
terrorists is a lot like call the kettle black.
This behavior on the part of the mpaa strikes me as
someone (the mpaa) acting out of panic, not informed thought.
The mpaa (and others) really should be embracing the net as a
possible revenue stream. it would certainly make their product available over
a much wider spectrum of the viewing public.
So my question is this: what are they so afriad of?
I wonder if M$ (tm) will be true to form at take 1-2 years
:)
before they include accessibility for the blind/visually
impaired (previously, it took M$ being sued under the ADA
before they made it "easier" to have such tools work)?
besides, I don't use windows (much). only reason I would have to use
it is to provide "tech support" to ohers not as familiar with it.
meanwhile, back to Unix stuff.
is it me or does there appear to be more to this
story than is being published?
there was mention of an i-pod that was not delivered, but
nothing further (no comment).
questions is:is this a scam or is he really the target of
an online revenge?
I guess that all the facts need to come out first before
one can make a "value judgement" as to who is right and who was wronged.
I still get that fairly often when I shop at fry's here in Phoenix.
still, one has to wonder how clueless these "customers" are when
they ask a BLIND PERSON where something is or if something will
do somthing or other...
Granted, I am a bit more knowledgable than the "customer circus"
guys that are the store employees. but still, asking a clearly
blind person for help when there are a half dozen employees
loitering nearby? whats the sense in that?
it seems to me that we are in a situation where the police :(
are getting called for every little problem.
are we, as a society, that afraid that we are demanding
a police state to exist?
uts worse than that, unfortunately.
the bureacracy is son controlled by the corporate types
that only those things they want to market ever get looked at.
blindness and other disabilities always take a back seat unless
a real celebrity comes along to get the message out (remember
Christopher Reeves?).
add to this the general public apathy that nothing anyone says
is going to do much to change things... well, you get the idea.
btw, just so you know, I happen to be blind. I have no eyesight
at all. it took me 5 years to acquire (on my own) equipment to
be able to access the net and I had to do it on what the government
pays in disability ($600.00/month). 5 years, scrimping and saving
and bartering and "horse trading". thats a long time just for
"equal access".
ah well, I am here and no matter what the powers-that-be say,
I am not going away.
*** Blind in Arizona
and what is to stop some pedophile from getting these
and giving them out to kids?
this kind of technology (in its current form) can be abused
in frightening ways.
consider a situation where such a child predator hands out
phones to unsuspecting kids. said phonmes are setup such
that you cannot make outgoing calls. at that point, its no
more than a "harmless toy" and most parents will see it as such.
then, at some future point (days, weeks, etc) said predator
snatches the kid(s).
I dare say it gives a person pause to think of the ugly
possibilities of abuse of such a potentially "helpful" technology.
how would we make sure that the right people (parents) get these
devices?
an interesting point with those with "fast cortexes"
it seems that such people are often misdiagnosed as having adhd
(the willful behavior, bouncing off the walls, etc). such a
misdiagnosis (and the resulting medicinal push) can have disasterous
effects upon the these children (I should know, I was one of those
kids 30+ years ago).
perhaps we should be looking for better alternatives than having the
parents insist on doping up their kids to control them easier.
just some thoughts from a "child of the pharmecuitical age"
sabers are like vacuums. they suck!
:)
so, the matter involved simply moves out of the way.
man, whats this place comming to?
did someone hand the admins a badly coated paint brush or what?
there was a PDF of the letter sent by the attorney's of record in that case.
A couple of small problems arise though:
1. the case file ID does not match anything on record in the state of New york
2. the indicated case material is for health care litigation and recovery of fees.
I hate to say this folks, but someone put over a very good forgery on the blogs.
gee, its starting to look like something out of George Orwell's "1984" around here. Pretty soon, its going to be "any data you produce is no longer your property, especially if it was produced on a proprietary (read that "closed source") third party application.
what does this say about our postings here?
disturbing thought, isn't it?
Is it me or does this start to have the appearance of the bill of rights
(at least for the US citizens) being erroded?
I guess its time to vote all the bums out (both parties). they have obviously
lost touch with the people.
It isn't just here.......
India is starting to see the same sets of problems....
oh yeah, do go to china (as an outside), their
government doesn't like the competition (china is
probably the 1 place with the highest level of dvd
piracy on the entire planet and they export that
to the tune of $30 Billion USD annually).
I am wondering what is up with those "congress critters".
don't they realize that some of us are relegated to the
analog world without any choice?
My case in point: I cannot read in the normal fashion (I am blind)
and thus I depend on text-to-speech conversion (ultimate result:
digital to analog conversion). This is pretty much true for my
audio equipment as well (and the new digital only stuff would
be priced well out of my reach anyway)
now, enough about me. here's the problem I see (sic):
the media companies are wanting congress to mind their
"bread and butter" with these new laws, but whats its
really going to do is to kill their business model off.
They (the media companies) *think* they are doing the
smart thing right now. I wonder how its going to be
before they realize they've cut their own throat?
uh yeah!
seems they have a little blurb on their site claiming it was "down for maintenance".
is this their way of saving face or are they just too embarrassed to admit they are a den of thieves?
hmmmmmmmm.
makes you wonder why we haven't "hung all the lawyers" yet?
are we even sure that Heizenberg exists now?
"what state is Heizenberg in now?...
I don't know, that ^%^%(*&^ cat hasn't reappeared yet!".
The guy that posted this originally beat me to it by only 19 hours
(guess mine will get rejected). ah well. so close and yet......
my windows box is a useless pile of crap right now!
Their rootkit did a lot of damage. my speech synth no longer works
(being blind means I use adaptive technology) and the "service pack"
did not restore the system as promised.
I am now going to have to have a complete re-install of the OS
and the speech synth software and I am going to have to pay $65.00
an hour to get it done. where am I going to get that on $600.00 a month?
I hope that class action attorney calls me. as it is, I am now using a 350 Mhz
linux box to post this (at least my older speech synth still works but not with
windows).
/Quote Honestly, I see this as a real exposure to a lawsuit. If I accidently install this rootkit on my system, then try to remove it (seeing as it looks like a genuine security breach) and then disable my computer, thus having to bring it in for service what then?. If a malware company uses the rootkits ability to hide $sys$ prefixed files and uses that to steal my identity, costing me thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of time to get my identity back, can I sue? /quote
Short answer: yes you can sue.
A more involved answer: you can, but how much money have you got to spend on it?
Remeber, sony is a very big monster. its going to take a few hits before it gets knocked down (took the state of New York 5 years to bring the suit into Federal court and get a judgement in the sony/disc jockey payola case).
I am not sure to take this as a joke or seriously......
seriously though, I have lived in a few places in my life that
were bonnified police states (the former soviet union, yugoslavia,
egypt, etc). travelling with the family as a kid because your parents
worked for the government was fun in some ways (and terrifying in others).
I witnessed the results of police states first hands.
first rule of thumb: such a state acts for its own interest
first and cares very little for the individual. anyone not conforming to the
"states" ideal is labeled a threat and "disappeared".
so. my question is this: who minds the minders?
TMH
well, :(
it seems to me that it is becomming increasingly obvious that we are slipping
toward a police state here in the US.
This latest policy statement flies in the face of the first (and 5th) amendments
to the US consititution. I begin to wonder how long it will be before that
venerable document is shredded?
*sigh* yet one more little piece of our rights chissled away at.
TMH
at this point, I'd say blame the suits. they are much more interested in their bottom line and don't have the time or inclination to deal with the network/email/news admin types.
Thats the basic problem of having a bottom line mentality, as opposed to a QOS mentality.
Technomage Hawke