How do you think we can win these suits? There are 2 ways I can think of:
1) On technicality: since they can respond to an overwhelming no. of lawsuits, we will win.
2) On merits of the argument: that we are indeed defamed, since that there isn't any possibility SCO's code in Linux.
For 1): I'm sure it'll not work, because we probably cannot coordinate court attacks using thousands that will risk litigation (remember, we are putting our collective asses in the target of the countersue squad). Furthermore, if this would work then we can also have a coordinated 'Sue Micro$oft Day' can't we?
For 2) this point is precisely the point of SCO's case against IBM, i.e. if there is really SCO's code in their products. At most this will hasten SCO's need to provide the proof that this is so - and we have no guarantees that we'll win or have the resources like IBM to fight against it.
So I don't think we can win at this stage. BUT there is something we can do: when the courts rule against SCO in the IBM case, I propose that ALL parties with interest with Linux countersue them for damages - and that means all the thousands of us. We can win on the same merits as the IBM case.
This will be an enormous deterrent against anyone else who will dream of such lawsuits against OSS projects in the future!
However, the WIN.COM code that produced this message turned out to be XOR encrypted, self-modifying, and deliberately obfuscated--all in an apparent attempt to thwart disassembly. The code also tries to defeat attempts for a debugger to step through it.
What... they decrypted and unobfuscated it??? Sic em, DMCA!:>
Design a new *anonymous* file sharing system - the excuse is to share file swap storage space as well.
Each client has a public area repository of which they don't know and can't know the content (encrypted, etc.). Songs to be shared will be distributed randomly to your peers. Well I'm sure you clever people at \. can work out a nice scheme to implement that fairly.
The 'infrastructure provider' not being liable argument for Grokster/Morpheus should apply as to the file repository users too.
Downside: might need double the drive space if you want to keep your own private stuff permanently. But hey storage is cheap right?
Nothing wrong with WEP (in terms of stability, let's not talk about the security:). If they are hot for a blame, blame the device drivers, firmware-code, or the crappy OS. Maybe even Canada, but WEP certainly does not deserve this ire.
We have always maintained that it is not random. In fact, our random number generator consistently generate numbers that are subsequently found to be NON-PRIME.
In our extensive (yet to be published) research, we have discovered that all PRIME NUMBERS are not just not random, but are found to have the property of NOT HAVING ANY DIVISORS APART FROM ITSELF AND 1. I've yet to verify with finding but it appears to be true with a correlation of 1.0 for all cases our research team have considered.
Satellites in geosynchronous orbits stay there mostly because they are in space where the damping resistance is almost nil - this way very little is needed for it to stay in orbit once it is initially set.
In the case of the space elevator, the cable will be swishing and oscillating about, and being gently tugged towards earth each time it drifts. Surely this will sap the 'centrifugal effect', causing the space-part to gradually fall towards earth, unless we expend lots of fuel and correction to get it to stay in orbit?
I could have given a whole plethora of annoying consulspeak my bosses use, but I am right now too busy trying to create more synergistic value-driven services in our company's core competency.
The bonobos who have earlier developed a simple vocabulary have rapidly evolved to include more complex vocabulary like warfore, compassionated, pillared, and vulcanize. Who knows that if this trend were to continue unabated, might they in the future be regarded not just as an equal to humans, but also be eligible to run for the highest office?
Why stop at letters? Why not a button for every song you have? Also please ensure that your key design also allows you to search and include into the playlist by genre, keywords or lyrics while sorted either by album order, alphabetically, or length of song, while you are fiddling the air-con, yakking in your cellphone, having your morning coffee thundering down the expressway.
Trying to figure this out, but if those OS stuff is preinstalled in the HD, how does it get all the hardware drivers working right? Unless i'm thinking too much in terms of WINDOZE...:)
It is important to since if I were to rip to Ogg from now on, I would want to be able to turn it back into MP3 so that it will play on my existing portable players...
>Quotas have been abolished in 2001, and all >intakes >for public universities are now based on merit. >Guess what? Bumiputras STILL outnumber non->bumis, 60% to 40%. Back in the quota days it was >55% to 45%. Now we have the non-bumi political >parties BEGGING the government to reinstate >quotas.
Actually, quotas have been disguised, not abolished. Many bumis get into university from the automatic route of MARAs and tertiary institutions that are ONLY OPEN TO BUMIS, whereas other races fight tooth-and-nail via the STPM examinations as their only route. Where is the merit and competition in this? As for the increase, a sample space of 1 year is insufficient to draw any conclusions.
Any please show me from where did you get the gem that political parties are BEGGING for the quota system to be reinstated.
> As a former scholar myself, all I can say is, > I've been given the opportunity to fight > the non-bumis who DO go overseas, on academic > grounds, in a neutral venue (if a bumi and a > non bumi go to the same non-malaysian > university, and the bumi works harder and > does better, is that discrimination too?)
I am sure you stand up brilliantly to competition:) Honestly, I detest the stereotypes and think it's complete bullshit. One thing I note is that with 25 years of affirmative action in the name of national unity and cohesion, bumis and non-bumis are not any closer, but more rife with recriminations and distrust from both sides. One of the sticking points is the policy itself.
> Mahathir HIMSELF singlehandedly abolished the > university quota system, and despite all the > opposition, it went through, and now bumis > STILL outnumber non-bumis in public > universities, on MERIT
I appauld his steps but we will still need more than just a few misleading cosmetic changes to be impressed. Whatever it is, why not get back to a complete merit system, where the best man win, with social valves for the disadvantaged, regardless of race?
> If anything, it's the clannish and cronyistic > business practices of the non-bumis that are > holding bumis back economically.
What bollocks. Non-bumi companies will love to hire bumis who are capable since they are perceived to open doors and also to make up their bumi-quota:>
What if the manufacturer applied the reverse, and put an image detector (instead of an engraver) on the drive instead -- that will read, detect and autenticate holograms (which cannot be generated by the technology of the same drive)?
It won't protect against well-organized pirates who will copy the hologram image as well, but it would certainly damp 'retail' pirating...:>
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... seeing RED over these title colors??
Well, almost everybody I know brings home their corporate copy of M$ Office to install, so big deal to M$ eh?
:>
No I won't reveal who they are... even under torture...
How do you think we can win these suits? There are 2 ways I can think of:
1) On technicality: since they can respond to an overwhelming no. of lawsuits, we will win.
2) On merits of the argument: that we are indeed defamed, since that there isn't any possibility SCO's code in Linux.
For 1): I'm sure it'll not work, because we probably cannot coordinate court attacks using thousands that will risk litigation (remember, we are putting our collective asses in the target of the countersue squad). Furthermore, if this would work then we can also have a coordinated 'Sue Micro$oft Day' can't we?
For 2) this point is precisely the point of SCO's case against IBM, i.e. if there is really SCO's code in their products. At most this will hasten SCO's need to provide the proof that this is so - and we have no guarantees that we'll win or have the resources like IBM to fight against it.
So I don't think we can win at this stage. BUT there is something we can do: when the courts rule against SCO in the IBM case, I propose that ALL parties with interest with Linux countersue them for damages - and that means all the thousands of us. We can win on the same merits as the IBM case.
This will be an enormous deterrent against anyone else who will dream of such lawsuits against OSS projects in the future!
What... they decrypted and unobfuscated it??? Sic em, DMCA!
Hey, if Slashdot make Top News in Google, it might even be possible to slashdot Slashdot!!
Design a new *anonymous* file sharing system - the excuse is to share file swap storage space as well.
Each client has a public area repository of which they don't know and can't know the content (encrypted, etc.). Songs to be shared will be distributed randomly to your peers. Well I'm sure you clever people at \. can work out a nice scheme to implement that fairly.
The 'infrastructure provider' not being liable argument for Grokster/Morpheus should apply as to the file repository users too.
Downside: might need double the drive space if you want to keep your own private stuff permanently. But hey storage is cheap right?
I thought, considering where he is from, the Earth circles around Yuri???
Nothing wrong with WEP (in terms of stability, let's not talk about the security :). If they are hot for a blame, blame the device drivers, firmware-code, or the crappy OS. Maybe even Canada, but WEP certainly does not deserve this ire.
We have always maintained that it is not random. In fact, our random number generator consistently generate numbers that are subsequently found to be NON-PRIME.
In our extensive (yet to be published) research, we have discovered that all PRIME NUMBERS are not just not random, but are found to have the property of NOT HAVING ANY DIVISORS APART FROM ITSELF AND 1. I've yet to verify with finding but it appears to be true with a correlation of 1.0 for all cases our research team have considered.
Slashdot.org?
Oh wait... reliable
On a related news, MS launches war in Iraq to distract the public now that it is not so secret anymore.
Satellites in geosynchronous orbits stay there mostly because they are in space where the damping resistance is almost nil - this way very little is needed for it to stay in orbit once it is initially set.
In the case of the space elevator, the cable will be swishing and oscillating about, and being gently tugged towards earth each time it drifts. Surely this will sap the 'centrifugal effect', causing the space-part to gradually fall towards earth, unless we expend lots of fuel and correction to get it to stay in orbit?
I could have given a whole plethora of annoying consulspeak my bosses use, but I am right now too busy trying to create more synergistic value-driven services in our company's core competency.
Faust made a bargain with the devil incarnate Mephistopheles. For that, upon Faust's death, Mephistopheles will claim the soul of Faust for eternity.
Lets hope that the story would conclude as Goethe's did, that at the final moment, Faust is rescued from the jaws of evil by the powers of good.
The bonobos who have earlier developed a simple vocabulary have rapidly evolved to include more complex vocabulary like warfore, compassionated, pillared, and vulcanize. Who knows that if this trend were to continue unabated, might they in the future be regarded not just as an equal to humans, but also be eligible to run for the highest office?
1) DNA reconstruction machine
2) Milla Jokovich's DNA
3) ???
4) PRICELESS!
No such thing, all the gay people I know Take Meat! :>
Why stop at letters? Why not a button for every song you have? Also please ensure that your key design also allows you to search and include into the playlist by genre, keywords or lyrics while sorted either by album order, alphabetically, or length of song, while you are fiddling the air-con, yakking in your cellphone, having your morning coffee thundering down the expressway.
Well there's always Adam's law:
The number of Hitchhiker references in an article is directly porportional to the complexity of the hardware under review.
Trying to figure this out, but if those OS stuff is preinstalled in the HD, how does it get all the hardware drivers working right? Unless i'm thinking too much in terms of WINDOZE... :)
What about converting Ogg -> MP3?
It is important to since if I were to rip to Ogg from now on, I would want to be able to turn it back into MP3 so that it will play on my existing portable players...
I get my current fodder from this excellent news site, but somehow I doubt the MP3 version, if they have it, would be quite so thrilling...
Left it's ok, only wank with the other. But its a bugger if you can't use Alt-F4 to close those damn pop-ups ....
>Quotas have been abolished in 2001, and all >intakes
:) Honestly, I detest the stereotypes and think it's complete bullshit. One thing I note is that with 25 years of affirmative action in the name of national unity and cohesion, bumis and non-bumis are not any closer, but more rife with recriminations and distrust from both sides. One of the sticking points is the policy itself.
:>
>for public universities are now based on merit. >Guess what? Bumiputras STILL outnumber non->bumis, 60% to 40%. Back in the quota days it was >55% to 45%. Now we have the non-bumi political >parties BEGGING the government to reinstate >quotas.
Actually, quotas have been disguised, not abolished. Many bumis get into university from the automatic route of MARAs and tertiary institutions that are ONLY OPEN TO BUMIS, whereas other races fight tooth-and-nail via the STPM examinations as their only route. Where is the merit and competition in this? As for the increase, a sample space of 1 year is insufficient to draw any conclusions.
Any please show me from where did you get the gem that political parties are BEGGING for the quota system to be reinstated.
> As a former scholar myself, all I can say is,
> I've been given the opportunity to fight
> the non-bumis who DO go overseas, on academic
> grounds, in a neutral venue (if a bumi and a
> non bumi go to the same non-malaysian
> university, and the bumi works harder and
> does better, is that discrimination too?)
I am sure you stand up brilliantly to competition
> Mahathir HIMSELF singlehandedly abolished the
> university quota system, and despite all the
> opposition, it went through, and now bumis
> STILL outnumber non-bumis in public
> universities, on MERIT
I appauld his steps but we will still need more than just a few misleading cosmetic changes to be impressed. Whatever it is, why not get back to a complete merit system, where the best man win, with social valves for the disadvantaged, regardless of race?
> If anything, it's the clannish and cronyistic
> business practices of the non-bumis that are
> holding bumis back economically.
What bollocks. Non-bumi companies will love to hire bumis who are capable since they are perceived to open doors and also to make up their bumi-quota
What if the manufacturer applied the reverse, and put an image detector (instead of an engraver) on the drive instead -- that will read, detect and autenticate holograms (which cannot be generated by the technology of the same drive)?
:>
It won't protect against well-organized pirates who will copy the hologram image as well, but it would certainly damp 'retail' pirating...