Don't know if Linux/OSX are defined as spyware, but the article says the spying can only take place after you click the "I accept" button on the (presumably antispyware) program end user license agreement.
As at least Linux doesn't come with that kind of end user license agreement, I suppose Linux users would not be allowed to be investigated.
From the announcement: STEP 1: Go to http://www.test.dev.livejournal.org/ . Make an account. Probably need to change it to paid so you can make styles/etc.
So to be able to help them test their security, you have to pay them? Or am I missing something?
you lucky basterd, you must be the only one on earth that managed to even get the licence! (many others reported trying to by the licence, offering money to SCO, but SCO wouldn't tell them where to send the money).
1. "All those tabs" means all those pages active simultaneously. Presumably they are also not trivial pages containing only text, and the more-complex the pages, the more memory they consume.
But when I close a tab, no memory seems to be freed. Have been running firefox for a couple of hours now, with loads of tabs active. I close all tabs (leaving only a blank page), and the virtual memory usage of firefox stays at 181M, with resident memory staying at 74M.
2. What is the memory for, if not to be used by your active application that you are doing lots of things, opening lots of tabs, in. Would you rather have applications that are unable to use the memory that you have properly to your advantage in your active applications?
I would rather have firefox free the memory when I close the tabs, so that other programs can use it, thank you.
3. If you think the memory is really an effect of creeping memory leaks, try using the menu option "bookmark all tabs", closing Firefox, and reopening with the bookmark.
So, with only one blank tab opened (as described above), memory usage is 181M virt + 74M res. When starting anew, memory usage is about 70M virt + 23M res. Does this prove yet there are memory leaks?
You can't heat water up quickly enough with conventional resistance-based electric elements, as it would require huge amount of electricity. Not so with microwaves.
So, microwaves need less energy to heat up water the same amount? Strange... The heating with resistance-based methods is already close to 100%; the loss occurs with storage of the warm water. But you do need the same amount of energy (and thus electricity) to heat up water, whether you do it using resistance-based methods, or microwaves.
I would believe they would make more profit if they used the money they use for developing copy protection for actually creating better content.
They discovered that creating crap content is the best copy protection system ever.
Considering that the average lightbulb creates more heat than light, this is great!
As lightbulbs create about 95% to 98% heat (the rest is light), and modern LEDs about 85% to 96% heat, the LEDs still create more heat than light.
When will they do the same with TV channels? As it is now, the satellite TV provider gives me a card that will enable me to decode the Dutch satellite TV channels anywhere in Europe -- but to get the card, I have to sign a contract stating I am only allowed to actually use the card in the Netherlands.
The reason is of cource the same as with music: the copyrightholders want to sell each movie at different prices to each country. But not being able to see TV channels from other countries hinders european intergration more than not being able to by US music in the Netherlands at Spanish prices.
They don't want to release the (sterile or not) females, as they will still spread malaria. So they have to tell the males from the females, for that they use the glowing (the glowing gene only being expressed in males).
We see abberations in the pattern of global temperatures, we have physics that explains the interactions of gasses and heat, we put 2+2 together and get 4.
Of course, a real kapitalist puts 2+2 together and gets 5, that's where you differ.
conducts so well that it can be considered a superconductor
The most essential thing about a superconductor isn't the zero resistance, but the meissner effect. So if they manage to create wires with near-zero resistance, they will not have created `near-superconductors'.
For energy transportation and storage it doesn't matter all that much, cause zero resistance (even without superconductivity) would make energy transportation and storage better
Then how are you supposed to buy the product (should you be so inclined)? Could you not simply feign interest for long enough to get company details out of them, then inform the relevant authorities?
They are after *your* details, and don't have to give out the company details to sell you the product. I guess they'll just refuse to give any info about the company they work for.
ah, baf, I was wrong. It does give 403 Forbidden message. But, using
while true; do wget http://www.georgewbush.com/; done
I can still get quite a few of those messages a second, upping their bill anyway (if I were to run it any longer than a few seconds, and on a DDOS style array of hosts).
From abroad, the page *looks* very simple. But it actually is a 31700 bytes file, so if any foreign DDOS-ers want to up W's bandwidth bill, they still can.
If W really wanted to limit his bandwidth bill, I'm sure the page served to foreigners would have been smaller than 31k.
I mean, most laws I've read read like "if you do X, then the penalty is Y, unless...".
That actually looks a lot like a software program to me, the only difference being the language it's written in.
Now, wouldn't there be patents that describe algorithms that are actually used in the lawbooks too? That way, you could either make the lawmakers
see that patenting software is like patenting lawmaking, or, if the lawmakers argue that the important thing here is the different language the laws are written in, then you could write a Law-to-C translator, that translates algorithms described in a law-like language to C (or any other computer-language).
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Don't know if Linux/OSX are defined as spyware, but the article says the spying can only take place after you click the "I accept" button on the (presumably antispyware) program end user license agreement.
As at least Linux doesn't come with that kind of end user license agreement, I suppose Linux users would not be allowed to be investigated.
From the announcement:
STEP 1: Go to http://www.test.dev.livejournal.org/ . Make an account. Probably need to change it to paid so you can make styles/etc.
So to be able to help them test their security, you have to pay them? Or am I missing something?
You may write your own code, create your own processes, but if you happen to stumble on someone's patent, you'll still be in troble.
BTW, the $699 for a server is an introductory offer, valid till December 31, 2003. no word on the SCO site as to what the prices are in 2004, 2005 or 2006.
Windows have never given me any problems either.
They don't give any problems to virus/spyware/etc writers, eigther.
But when I close a tab, no memory seems to be freed. Have been running firefox for a couple of hours now, with loads of tabs active. I close all tabs (leaving only a blank page), and the virtual memory usage of firefox stays at 181M, with resident memory staying at 74M.
2. What is the memory for, if not to be used by your active application that you are doing lots of things, opening lots of tabs, in. Would you rather have applications that are unable to use the memory that you have properly to your advantage in your active applications?
I would rather have firefox free the memory when I close the tabs, so that other programs can use it, thank you.
3. If you think the memory is really an effect of creeping memory leaks, try using the menu option "bookmark all tabs", closing Firefox, and reopening with the bookmark.
So, with only one blank tab opened (as described above), memory usage is 181M virt + 74M res. When starting anew, memory usage is about 70M virt + 23M res. Does this prove yet there are memory leaks?
You can't heat water up quickly enough with conventional resistance-based electric elements, as it would require huge amount of electricity. Not so with microwaves.
So, microwaves need less energy to heat up water the same amount? Strange... The heating with resistance-based methods is already close to 100%; the loss occurs with storage of the warm water. But you do need the same amount of energy (and thus electricity) to heat up water, whether you do it using resistance-based methods, or microwaves.
I would believe they would make more profit if they used the money they use for developing copy protection for actually creating better content.
They discovered that creating crap content is the best copy protection system ever.
As lightbulbs create about 95% to 98% heat (the rest is light), and modern LEDs about 85% to 96% heat, the LEDs still create more heat than light.
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The reason is of cource the same as with music: the copyrightholders want to sell each movie at different prices to each country. But not being able to see TV channels from other countries hinders european intergration more than not being able to by US music in the Netherlands at Spanish prices.
I guess the difference in price is because with freeDOS, the SPAM/spyware industry doesn't pay dell a cut from their proffit.
The US have already been preparing an invasion of The Netherlands (Scheveningen) for a few years.
Dutch protesters already started building a defensive wall against the US
This hoax lasted only a couple of hours, that's nothing compared to the hoax that people are falling for since 1547
Linux (debian) first visited space in 1997: Debian Rides Space Shuttle.
We see abberations in the pattern of global temperatures, we have physics that explains the interactions of gasses and heat, we put 2+2 together and get 4.
Of course, a real kapitalist puts 2+2 together and gets 5, that's where you differ.
The most essential thing about a superconductor isn't the zero resistance, but the meissner effect. So if they manage to create wires with near-zero resistance, they will not have created `near-superconductors'.
For energy transportation and storage it doesn't matter all that much, cause zero resistance (even without superconductivity) would make energy transportation and storage better
Then how are you supposed to buy the product (should you be so inclined)? Could you not simply feign interest for long enough to get company details out of them, then inform the relevant authorities?
They are after *your* details, and don't have to give out the company details to sell you the product. I guess they'll just refuse to give any info about the company they work for.
Yes, get's me to slahsdot right away!
minux?
while true; do wget http://www.georgewbush.com/; done
I can still get quite a few of those messages a second, upping their bill anyway (if I were to run it any longer than a few seconds, and on a DDOS style array of hosts).
If W really wanted to limit his bandwidth bill, I'm sure the page served to foreigners would have been smaller than 31k.
Good, I'm training thunderbird's SPAM-filter, I'm eagerly awaiting every new SPAM I can get my hands on.
To save the other metric readers the trouble googling, 1 mils = 1/1000 inch = 2.54e-5 metre. conversion
That actually looks a lot like a software program to me, the only difference being the language it's written in.
Now, wouldn't there be patents that describe algorithms that are actually used in the lawbooks too? That way, you could either make the lawmakers see that patenting software is like patenting lawmaking, or, if the lawmakers argue that the important thing here is the different language the laws are written in, then you could write a Law-to-C translator, that translates algorithms described in a law-like language to C (or any other computer-language).