Lastly, clean room implementation is possible if someone living outside the realms of copyright protection describes the code in enough detail for someone else to reproduce. The reproduced code could probabley then be placed under any license the programmer wishes.
Where exactly doesn't have copyright protection? I know that China, and a few others, don't enforce it, but nearly everywhere HAS it.
That's because some slashdot trolls have gone to that article and edited it. The article is likely to be locked from editing while it's on the front page of slashdot if they don't let up for awhile.
Yep. If a web browser chooses to search on non-existent domains, that's the choice of the application developer. And if you don't like it, you can download Opera/Mozilla/Konqueror/about a zillion others, many of them happening to be open source.
Or you can run a platform that doesn't even support IE. But there's no choice when it comes to the DNS.
The more interesting question is why he felt the need to post the real data. If I had a database formatting error, I would have written a fake database that was corrupted in a similiar wayt and asked about it.
Unless, that is, somebody can demonstrate that a child molester used the database to identify a victim and attacked him.
Yep. And it's interesting to note that even the most hardcore gang members and heroin dealers in prison have some very interesting ways of treating anyone who even resembles a child molester. To be blunt, he would get reamed out by more than his employer,
Exactly. Personally, I would have sent an evening creating a database screwed up in a similiar way, and posted it as my example.
And this has nothing to do with whether the guy was hired through outsourcing, on-campus interviewing, monster.com, or was met at Moe's Pub. Idiots occur in every company.
They're Darl and the Brain, they're Darl and the Brain, one is a genius, the other is insane, they're Darl, Darl and the Brain, brain, brain, brain, brain, brain (fade out, and switch to SCO headquarters).
Darl: So, what are going to do tonight, Brain? Brain: The same thing we do every night, Darl, try to sue IBM! Darl: But we did that already, and we're losing! Brain: Don't worry, Darl, this time we're going to make it. Using our copyrighted Lunix code, I have created an automatic evidence generator! ***Brain sits down at odd-looking contraption, and types in "cat/dev/urandom >/dev/lp" ***Contraption begins spitting paper. Brain: Ok, Darl, now you go take this evidence down to legal, and the judge doesn't understand technology, so he'll be impressed at all the evidence we've gathered. Darl: Okey dokey, Brain, here I go! ***Darl picks up stack of paper, which is covered with vaguely code-like control characters and things, and carries it out door.
***Fade to black Big scrolling letters appear: In next week's episode, Darl and the Brain try to cope with the discovery that their claimed Lunix code is actually a screenshot from the Ancient Unix version of Nethack - be sure to tune in!
Hmm... How do we make SCO go down in a ball of fire? I remember in my BBS days in elementary school there were a lot of plans for bombs and stuff, but my dad told me those were fake!:)
I would also tend to wonder whether there's a first amendment right to counterfeit money.
That aside, the first amendment does not apply to private individuals, or companies. If I kick you off my IRC channel, you do not get to take me to court for violating your freedom of speech.
At least one problem with this - why won't the counterfeiters just buy a new printer of some different brand? Is this a major reduction in their profit margin to get even a top-of-the-line laser printer from another company?
I wonder whether a magnet available to the general public could induce enough current to burn out a RFID, keeping in mind those things are designed to be powered by induction... My guess is one of the neodymium magnets you can buy from places like this would do it - I have one that induces enough eddy currents when you brush it over a bronze statue that you can feel the drag (feels like dragging a knife through syrup).
On a more serious note - why not carry your stuff into one of those labs (there are several on my campus) with the huge 10 gauss warning signs, move it past the magnet quickly, and burn the thing out?
Well, first of all, if you made a change like that while logged out, it would be noticed.
Second of all, if I came by 4 months later and saw an obvious error like that, I would fix it, and would probably (if I had a few free minutes) poke through the edit history to figure out who put it there. If you made subtly wrong chanvges to a lot of articles, I might start the process of getting you blocked from editing the site.
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Shouldn't that be -x86?
Ok, probably wasting three karma here, but ++parent
By the way, the only times "NSA" occurs in the filenames is "scrnsave" and "transact". "DRM" occurs only once, in a filename "addrm.c".
So a lot of what we've been hearing is apparently quite false.
Where exactly doesn't have copyright protection? I know that China, and a few others, don't enforce it, but nearly everywhere HAS it.
In all seriousness, they wouldn't dare. If they turn MS against them, they're asking to get reamed completely, and not just in the courts.
MS could buy them up with a month's revenue.
You mean like ESR, who has never written any software?
First You Failed It!
We had best be careful - if SCO gets this technology, they may clone their FUD.
Oh, wait, they're already doing that.
The issue has been handled. We've locked the article due to the huge amount of vandalism.
That's because some slashdot trolls have gone to that article and edited it. The article is likely to be locked from editing while it's on the front page of slashdot if they don't let up for awhile.
You could point it towards Earth and look for those WMD's. Obviously Saddam won't tell where they are, so we need to get creative.
still works for Transmeta? That's news to me.
Yep. If a web browser chooses to search on non-existent domains, that's the choice of the application developer. And if you don't like it, you can download Opera/Mozilla/Konqueror/about a zillion others, many of them happening to be open source.
Or you can run a platform that doesn't even support IE. But there's no choice when it comes to the DNS.
The more interesting question is why he felt the need to post the real data. If I had a database formatting error, I would have written a fake database that was corrupted in a similiar wayt and asked about it.
Yep. And it's interesting to note that even the most hardcore gang members and heroin dealers in prison have some very interesting ways of treating anyone who even resembles a child molester. To be blunt, he would get reamed out by more than his employer,
Exactly. Personally, I would have sent an evening creating a database screwed up in a similiar way, and posted it as my example.
And this has nothing to do with whether the guy was hired through outsourcing, on-campus interviewing, monster.com, or was met at Moe's Pub. Idiots occur in every company.
Basically SCO ends up looking stupid again.
Can the judge moderate them -1 redundant?
They're Darl and the Brain, they're Darl and the Brain, one is a genius, the other is insane, they're Darl, Darl and the Brain, brain, brain, brain, brain, brain (fade out, and switch to SCO headquarters).
/dev/urandom > /dev/lp"
Darl: So, what are going to do tonight, Brain?
Brain: The same thing we do every night, Darl, try to sue IBM!
Darl: But we did that already, and we're losing!
Brain: Don't worry, Darl, this time we're going to make it. Using our copyrighted Lunix code, I have created an automatic evidence generator!
***Brain sits down at odd-looking contraption, and types in "cat
***Contraption begins spitting paper.
Brain: Ok, Darl, now you go take this evidence down to legal, and the judge doesn't understand technology, so he'll be impressed at all the evidence we've gathered.
Darl: Okey dokey, Brain, here I go!
***Darl picks up stack of paper, which is covered with vaguely code-like control characters and things, and carries it out door.
***Fade to black
Big scrolling letters appear: In next week's episode, Darl and the Brain try to cope with the discovery that their claimed Lunix code is actually a screenshot from the Ancient Unix version of Nethack - be sure to tune in!
Hmm... How do we make SCO go down in a ball of fire? I remember in my BBS days in elementary school there were a lot of plans for bombs and stuff, but my dad told me those were fake! :)
I would also tend to wonder whether there's a first amendment right to counterfeit money.
That aside, the first amendment does not apply to private individuals, or companies. If I kick you off my IRC channel, you do not get to take me to court for violating your freedom of speech.
At least one problem with this - why won't the counterfeiters just buy a new printer of some different brand? Is this a major reduction in their profit margin to get even a top-of-the-line laser printer from another company?
I wonder whether a magnet available to the general public could induce enough current to burn out a RFID, keeping in mind those things are designed to be powered by induction... My guess is one of the neodymium magnets you can buy from places like this would do it - I have one that induces enough eddy currents when you brush it over a bronze statue that you can feel the drag (feels like dragging a knife through syrup).
On a more serious note - why not carry your stuff into one of those labs (there are several on my campus) with the huge 10 gauss warning signs, move it past the magnet quickly, and burn the thing out?
Well, first of all, if you made a change like that while logged out, it would be noticed.
Second of all, if I came by 4 months later and saw an obvious error like that, I would fix it, and would probably (if I had a few free minutes) poke through the edit history to figure out who put it there. If you made subtly wrong chanvges to a lot of articles, I might start the process of getting you blocked from editing the site.
Yeah. Even 50% is far far better than you face with those telemarketing firms that call around asking for donations to the fire department, etc.
That's more or less an exact description of the policy of NPOV.