How many programming books do you have that contain "hello.c". All the books are copyright, and yet anyone can copy "hello.c" without infringing
Or Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie may have a way to get rich quick!
Finally another SCO story! I've had to go almost 15 hours since the last, and I've almost managed to read most comments from that one already!
Seriously though, the one thing that surprises me about this SCO thing most is the fact that I'm still interested in even more stories. Why is it that I'm not yet bored? Apparently many other other slashdotters too are still interested, judging by the number of posters for each news item.
Why doesn't Linus change the kernel to remove licencing to SCO?
The GPL makes it rather difficult for him to do so.
Well, he could release a new version of the kernel with only code in it that Linus wrote, and then change the licence. But that would be a lot of work. (rewrite most of the kernel)
So, to release under a new licence, he would have to ask permission from all contributors to change the licence. There are simply too many contributers to do that.
Flight crews could be equipped with handheld RF detectors relatively quickly
Nice, but of cource not always quick enough, for example when the aircraft is about to land, and a passager wants to quickly prepare something.
(possibly this also holds for dangerous situations in the air, which pasangers not need to notice)
If one assumes an device can be dangerous, I'm all for it to be switched off always, and not to de pend on the travallers to not switch them on when they will cause problems.
I see two problems with the reasoning. 1) if the mirror is moving (fast) away from the sun, the reflected light will have lower frequencies (doppler effect) than the incomming light, so that the reflected light is of `lower temperature'.
2) When defining the two Carnot's temperatures, T1 and T2, I think T1 is rightly set to the sun's temperature; but T2 should be that of the `outer universe', the 3K background radiation. Then one sees that the max efficiency of the aparatus is 6000K/3K, a rather high efficiency indeed. The 3K would be the push back on the mirror on the other side.
Yes, the mirror may have a black back side, but that doesn't matter. After some time, the mirror would become 3K (equilibrium, if the black side is turned to the background radiation), and it will radiate 3K ratiation. (Like it would do if the back side of the mirror would be a mirror).
Summary: on the sun-side of the mirror, there is a push of 6000K radiation (sun temperature), on the back-side is a push of 3K radiation. There you have your efficiency.
Google has strived in vain to maintain the quality of its search results in the face of a blizzard of links generated by a small number of sources. (Google searches 3,083,324,652 pages as of 4PM PT today. Assuming there are one million bloggers, and generously assuming they have a hundred pages each, that amounts to 0.032 per cent of web content indexed by Google.
Each blog usually consists of hundreds if not thousands of pages. That increases the persentage of 0.032% somewhat.
You're forgetting about the lawyer fees associated with launching such an attack. Yeah the big company has deeper pockets but it's not like companies are swimming in cash to launch a physical DDoS at their whim. There are significant "overhead" costs such as bad publicity and loss of reputation
True. That does make a real difference. On the other hand, $BIGCOMPANY has big pockets to spend on laywers, whereas I don't. Also, $BIGCOMPAN can send out thousands of cease and desist letters, at virtually no cost per letter. But if I get one, that's gonna cost me dearly.
Simmilarly, in most DOS attacs, the atacking server also uses bandwidth (the money from the laywer DOS), but it eighter is on a bigger network (bigger pockets), or it is sending special small requests that use a lot of resources at the atacked site.
Try reading your contract agreement.. If it doesn't mention it.. you are in the clear.. if it does, you need to learn how to make your NAT gateway not reveal the IP TTL.
Mine does mention it. But I think I'm still in the clear, as 1) the contract permits the use of NAT's for other members of my household, and 2) I don't have any NAT:)
This not quite an EMP weapon which usually destroys by causing induction and other similar effects. It's more of a maser (m(icrowave) a(mplification by) s(timulated) e(mission of) r(adiation)) which is tuned to silicon instead of water (microwave oven at home).
So, how about an metalic case around my silicon? Would that keep out the microwaves just as effectively as a metalic can does for food in the microwave oven?
I mean if Google would not downgrade SearchKing's rankings, that would mean that all other webpages get a lower (relative) rating on Google search results. So, the whole world should sue SearchKing, if they were allowed to `improve' their raiting in this way.
Yeah, site apparently is here, and is as I write still not up... (Another site of the ISP is running again, it was down yesterday too).
The news thread he refers to is here, but it's in dutch.
In short: site owner believes he's had both the sun exploit, and a DDoS attac. He now thinks his backups are corrupted by the cracker as well, so that's why he says he's very slow restoring the sites. (about 48 hours down now, for some).
Also, he thinks the cracker entered about 4 days or more ago (well, he's down 2 days now, and he writes the cracker entered a couple of days before the site went down).
I would like to contribute to a defense fund of sorts for FatWallet
You would have been able to, but aparently somebody copyrighted the excact amount of money to send to the fund, so no nobody can tell you how much to send.
Parallel ATA capable, at least theoretically, of speeds over 100MB
I've always wondered, why not simply connect all those harddrives with gigabit ethernet? Seems to be as fast, available, can be connected/disconnect while computer is on, can be used over much greater distances, etc, etc.
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seems his vanity-domain has an interesting take on the whole story.
Darl seems to have come to sences, see here
How many programming books do you have that contain "hello.c". All the books are copyright, and yet anyone can copy "hello.c" without infringing
Or Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie may have a way to get rich quick!
Seriously though, the one thing that surprises me about this SCO thing most is the fact that I'm still interested in even more stories. Why is it that I'm not yet bored? Apparently many other other slashdotters too are still interested, judging by the number of posters for each news item.
Also, they haven't removed the code just yet, so
Is a bit too early to say, even if they were to change the licence (GPL) instead of the code (gcc).
Well, he could release a new version of the kernel with only code in it that Linus wrote, and then change the licence. But that would be a lot of work. (rewrite most of the kernel)
So, to release under a new licence, he would have to ask permission from all contributors to change the licence. There are simply too many contributers to do that.
It doesn't jive with Mozilla 1.5a -- so there you have an excuse not to upgrade to 1.5a:)
as users of porn the world over realise they will never be able to use the `virus' excuse with their OS.
(possibly this also holds for dangerous situations in the air, which pasangers not need to notice)
If one assumes an device can be dangerous, I'm all for it to be switched off always, and not to de pend on the travallers to not switch them on when they will cause problems.
How are they going to reach the airports that are so close to the city centers nowadays?
How far from the new your city center were those airports of new york again?
So, yes, I want real competition, or, if that fails (people willing to bu printers for $80 and ink for $2000), government-enforced-competition.
I see two problems with the reasoning.
1) if the mirror is moving (fast) away from the sun, the reflected light will have lower frequencies (doppler effect) than the incomming light, so that the reflected light is of `lower temperature'.
2) When defining the two Carnot's temperatures, T1 and T2, I think T1 is rightly set to the sun's temperature; but T2 should be that of the `outer universe', the 3K background radiation. Then one sees that the max efficiency of the aparatus is 6000K/3K, a rather high efficiency indeed. The 3K would be the push back on the mirror on the other side.
Yes, the mirror may have a black back side, but that doesn't matter. After some time, the mirror would become 3K (equilibrium, if the black side is turned to the background radiation), and it will radiate 3K ratiation.
(Like it would do if the back side of the mirror would be a mirror).
Summary: on the sun-side of the mirror, there is a push of 6000K radiation (sun temperature), on the back-side is a push of 3K radiation. There you have your efficiency.
Each blog usually consists of hundreds if not thousands of pages. That increases the persentage of 0.032% somewhat.
True. That does make a real difference. On the other hand, $BIGCOMPANY has big pockets to spend on laywers, whereas I don't. Also, $BIGCOMPAN can send out thousands of cease and desist letters, at virtually no cost per letter.
But if I get one, that's gonna cost me dearly.
Simmilarly, in most DOS attacs, the atacking server also uses bandwidth (the money from the laywer DOS), but it eighter is on a bigger network (bigger pockets), or it is sending special small requests that use a lot of resources at the atacked site.
Basically, the individual is swamped with requests s/he has to answer, and using up larges amount of resources (lawyer fees).
Very similar to a DOS attack where a server has to answer loads of requests, eating away in its resources (CPU/netwerk traffic).
Mine does mention it. But I think I'm still in the clear, as 1) the contract permits the use of NAT's for other members of my household, and 2) I don't have any NAT:)
So, how about an metalic case around my silicon? Would that keep out the microwaves just as effectively as a metalic can does for food in the microwave oven?
I mean if Google would not downgrade SearchKing's rankings, that would mean that all other webpages get a lower (relative) rating on Google search results. So, the whole world should sue SearchKing, if they were allowed to `improve' their raiting in this way.
The news thread he refers to is here, but it's in dutch.
In short: site owner believes he's had both the sun exploit, and a DDoS attac. He now thinks his backups are corrupted by the cracker as well, so that's why he says he's very slow restoring the sites. (about 48 hours down now, for some).
Also, he thinks the cracker entered about 4 days or more ago (well, he's down 2 days now, and he writes the cracker entered a couple of days before the site went down).
I would like to contribute to a defense fund of sorts for FatWallet
You would have been able to, but aparently somebody copyrighted the excact amount of money to send to the fund, so no nobody can tell you how much to send.
Jes, it's possible. Downgrading is just as simple as upgrading.
However, if you're even asking if it's possible to downgrade, I doubt whether you are able to do eighter...
I tried saving my spam for awhile just for giggles, but seeing that file grow to 100+ megs made me so angry I had to delete it.
Good thing too, it's probably illegal to save it anyway, as seen on slashdot today.
I've always wondered, why not simply connect all those harddrives with gigabit ethernet? Seems to be as fast, available, can be connected/disconnect while computer is on, can be used over much greater distances, etc, etc.