Also, you're not ESR. Today's ESR is a meedja whore. He'd rather be in the news than correct.
In a few weeks or months, one of us is going to look pretty stupid. Don't worry, I won't rub it in.
Iraq got diddly. Most of the money went to the U.S. military to pay for extravagant things like food for the soldiers to eat.
Somehow, I doubt the foot sloggers got 86 billion in food. My bet is that Haliburton got a doller or two of it. Obviously it didn't go for extravagances like ammo, body armor, or water, or food, since many seem to be missing those little homey touches.
I just told DirecTV to snuff themselves. I fail to see why I'm paying them close to USD$50 a month when I don't watch TV anymore. Last time I kept track, I watched two hours in a month, and that was over the air local news.
Honest to god people, look at it. Have you ever seen such painfully careful mis-spellongs?
I've seen worse from CEO's of Fortune 50 companies. And I'm not talking one or two companies.
Also, I think Eric S Raymond knows how to read email headers. If it came from SCOX IP space, I'd have to say that goes a long way to show it's genuine. Of couse, it could be from a rooted boxen. That's happened before. Also, I'd think that Eric would want to see the headers of the original email before he'd trust it. At least, I would insist on it.
As I recall, it's only illegal if you are doing it with the intent to change the value. (I can't see making a $20 bill a $2 bill, but hey, you can never tell. Changing a $20 to be a 200 dollar bill is just stupid.)
"Cnet News.com has a leading story saying that the venerable MP3 music format is getting a makeover aimed at blocking unauthorized copying.
Note that it says "unauthorized" copying. Not illegal copying, UNAUTHORIZED copying. Want to listen to it on RIO? Pay a fee. Computer? Pay a fee. Transfer to CD? Pay a fee.
Again, the simple solution to broken music is to NOT BUY IT. The people in RIAA are real smart. As soon as no one buys their crapware, they'll quit trying to shove it up our a$$.
The Register point out that ISPs like UUnet and Abovenet continue to host spammers despite advertising anti-spam AUPs."
Gee, isn't it deceptive trade to say one thing and do another? Is failure to enforce a published contract, saying that everyone has to abide by it fraudulant?
On the email servers I manage, UUNet, Level3, Shaw, Cox, and Above.net are all almost completely blocked. The bounce message says "This site does not accept email by default from your current ISP. Please call xxx-xxx-xxxx to request whitelisting."
I love it when spammers call and try to get whitelisted. Like I've never heard of SpamCop, SpamHaus, SPEWS or News.Admin.Net-Abuse.Sightings...
Reports in Computerwoche also stated that local vendors who currently code applications for the city were experiencing problems in developing applications for the open-source operating system, since they are more familiar with Windows than Linux.
Almost every single *nix crapware program I've seen was written by former Windows "programmers". I guess windows affects every part of the brain...
Why? Because, you dolts, DMCA. Yep. Some of the textbooks are "protected", come with limited life keys, and the license is good for one year only. After the license is over, you cannot access the book anymore. Poof! No used book market.
I tried finding a link to the stories about this text book (I think it was for a dentestry class), but got so many hits on things that didn't apply I couldn't find it.
I work in K-12, and a few publishers are trying this out. Most people don't need their grade school texts after they graduate (the school does, but we'll just raise taxes to pay for it), but college books? I've kept most of my electronics books. I refer to them now and again. With electronic copies, you won't be able to do that after the key expires.
I've been a railroad nut since I was a onion (sorry, NPR reference...)
Dr. Bruce Chubb has a series running in Model Railroader (Starting Jan 2004 issue) to use input/output cards to run signals, turnouts, just about everything on a model railroad. Thing is, it's useful for any computer controled need. You can find the circuit cards here: Serial cards
If model Live Steam is your thing, check out these photos here
If you have a spare USD $800,000.00, you can buy a real, running steam locomotive.
Or if you just want to know this in's and out's of a real railroad engineer you can look over Al Krug's "Tales of the Krug" (Check out the photo essays).
Or a railfan's hangout running on slash code here.
If you want to check out digital cab control for your model railroad, check out these three: EasyDCC, or North Coast Engineering, or DigiTrax. Personally, I liked EasyDCC because the main control comes with an RS232 port built in, and "It just works".
You can get it repaired with CA glue (Check hobby strores) or take it to a place that does motorcycle body panel repair, and have any missing parts re-melted and formed.
Wow! I can spend hours beating my head against a computer screen trying to turn a Wintel box loaded with Linux and extra NICs into a router...OR I could do the cost-effective thing and go buy a cheap-assed LinkSys router for $40 ($60-$80 if I want wireless), and get everything up and running in 1/10th the time.
Those are toys, not real routers. Fine for many SOHO uses, but not useful for real routing needs, while on the other hand using some nics, fast serial cards, and a linux box with IPTABLES can be (not always, but can be) a solution for quite a bit less than a Cisco 7005 or 12000. Using a package such as Zebra is a more effective solution if you require RIP, BGP and other things.
Perhaps the Federal "You can Spam" act is a blessing in disguise.
The You-Can-Spam act basically sets two types of spam: The pill-pusher organ-enhancing porno spam, which is bad, to Bidnez spam, which they call good.
With the You-CAN-SPAM act, every business gets one bite at the apple. Opt-out lists or "do-not-spam" lists will be just another tool for spammers to harvest working addresses. No, the best solution here is "A few good hangings", as the chairman of the FTC said.
The Content Reference Forum (CRF), founded by Universal Music Group backed by technology companies including Microsoft, is hoping the sharing file standard will be adopted by technology companies and incorporated into software music players.
RIAA: "Here, sucker, use our system that doesn't do squat and keeps you from doing what you were doing."
The community should come together and purchase the Unix rights from the smoking ruins of SCO and donate it to the Public Domain. That will forever end anyone from repeating McAssHat's antics.
As a community we need to think of spam as a technical problem with a technical solution. We need to have the mindset that spam is the second coming of computer viruses.
The fallicy of that is that spam is not a technical problem. There is nothing technically wrong with spam. The spammer sent an email, it got there.
No, spam is not a technical problem. Spam is a human problem, and will never be completely stopped with solely technical solutions.
At some point the spammers are going to get smart and realize that they are sitting on a free speech case. If the Supreme Court finds in there favor then we have real problems.
Ahhh. The "Frea Speech" arguement. (google for it.) Easy enough to rebut:
"Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit.
"We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often 'captives' outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain."
- Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, Rowan v US Post Office
The but "code" in question could be very innocent looking, something simple and near obvious. It doesn't have to be the fabled missing kerberos bit info or anything like that.
But that's just it. They won't show us the code. Perhaps that's making your point for you. Maybe that's why they won't show the code.
Of couse the real conspiracy nut in me says that they'd plan it out from day one, buying the soul of some small kernel hacker and actually coauthoring his contribution.
Doctrine of "unclean hands" would see that tossed out fairly quickly. If I were the attorney trying to defend against this, first thing I'd do is call for disclosure of the programmer's bank account, and make him account for every penny. Then get on the stand and swear that he had no ties to SCO.
Call me a nut, but I've half a mind to believe that MS is floating this whole SCO mess as a trial balloon, to probe the defenses of the open source community, and plans to have its' own code "stolen" and incorporated into Linux.
OK. "NUT". *grin*
Only if someone held a gun to Linus' head. Remember, anything that gets into the kernel, Linus takes at least a passing squint at. M$ code isn't good enough to get into the kernel.
"We are offering a migration path to other operating systems that have a stronger IP basis than Linux"
The GPL is a license, granting rights to use a copyrighted work.
Copyrights are based on Title 17 of the USC.
The USC is ruled on by a Federal judge.
Copyright violations are investigated by the FBI.
Ticking off a federal judge can result in Federal Marshalls on your doorstep.
Federal Marshalls and FBI agents carry guns.
What part of a man on your doorstep with a gun do you find not to be based on strong IP laws, Darl? Oh, *slaps forehead*, I forgot. "All Linux code are belong to SCO, now."
In order to save the village, we destroyed it.
To protect your rights, we limit them.
'The broadcast flag protects consumers' use and enjoyment of broadcast video programming.
Sure am glad that I don't watch TV anymore. Looks like I won't be watching movies now.
I went into Bust Buy the other day looking at a HDTV setup, with fairly good sound, a nice picture, a recorder.... all that stuff. It ran over $6,000.00 for everything.
HELLO? Like just *what* friggin' show is worth SIX FREAKIN' KILOBUCKS to watch?
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In a few weeks or months, one of us is going to look pretty stupid. Don't worry, I won't rub it in.
Well, I guess I won't rub it in then. (grin!)
Somehow, I doubt the foot sloggers got 86 billion in food. My bet is that Haliburton got a doller or two of it. Obviously it didn't go for extravagances like ammo, body armor, or water, or food, since many seem to be missing those little homey touches.
Sorry, big media corps. Get stuffed.
Sorry, you are off by an several orders of magnitude. Iraq got 86 billion .
I've seen worse from CEO's of Fortune 50 companies. And I'm not talking one or two companies.
Also, I think Eric S Raymond knows how to read email headers. If it came from SCOX IP space, I'd have to say that goes a long way to show it's genuine. Of couse, it could be from a rooted boxen. That's happened before. Also, I'd think that Eric would want to see the headers of the original email before he'd trust it. At least, I would insist on it.
It's called "adding value" and "monitizing" talent. (And I use "talent" loosely.)
As I recall, it's only illegal if you are doing it with the intent to change the value. (I can't see making a $20 bill a $2 bill, but hey, you can never tell. Changing a $20 to be a 200 dollar bill is just stupid.)
Note that it says "unauthorized" copying. Not illegal copying, UNAUTHORIZED copying. Want to listen to it on RIO? Pay a fee. Computer? Pay a fee. Transfer to CD? Pay a fee.
Again, the simple solution to broken music is to NOT BUY IT. The people in RIAA are real smart. As soon as no one buys their crapware, they'll quit trying to shove it up our a$$.
Gee, isn't it deceptive trade to say one thing and do another? Is failure to enforce a published contract, saying that everyone has to abide by it fraudulant?
On the email servers I manage, UUNet, Level3, Shaw, Cox, and Above.net are all almost completely blocked. The bounce message says "This site does not accept email by default from your current ISP. Please call xxx-xxx-xxxx to request whitelisting."
I love it when spammers call and try to get whitelisted. Like I've never heard of SpamCop, SpamHaus, SPEWS or News.Admin.Net-Abuse.Sightings...
Almost every single *nix crapware program I've seen was written by former Windows "programmers". I guess windows affects every part of the brain...
I tried finding a link to the stories about this text book (I think it was for a dentestry class), but got so many hits on things that didn't apply I couldn't find it.
I work in K-12, and a few publishers are trying this out. Most people don't need their grade school texts after they graduate (the school does, but we'll just raise taxes to pay for it), but college books? I've kept most of my electronics books. I refer to them now and again. With electronic copies, you won't be able to do that after the key expires.
Dr. Bruce Chubb has a series running in Model Railroader (Starting Jan 2004 issue) to use input/output cards to run signals, turnouts, just about everything on a model railroad. Thing is, it's useful for any computer controled need. You can find the circuit cards here: Serial cards
If model Live Steam is your thing, check out these photos here
If you have a spare USD $800,000.00, you can buy a real, running steam locomotive.
Or if you just want to know this in's and out's of a real railroad engineer you can look over Al Krug's "Tales of the Krug" (Check out the photo essays).
Or a railfan's hangout running on slash code here.
If you want to check out digital cab control for your model railroad, check out these three: EasyDCC, or North Coast Engineering, or DigiTrax. Personally, I liked EasyDCC because the main control comes with an RS232 port built in, and "It just works".
You can get it repaired with CA glue (Check hobby strores) or take it to a place that does motorcycle body panel repair, and have any missing parts re-melted and formed.
Including your own, Carly.
You keep putting out the same kind of PC equipment you have been, no one will buy it.
Those are toys, not real routers. Fine for many SOHO uses, but not useful for real routing needs, while on the other hand using some nics, fast serial cards, and a linux box with IPTABLES can be (not always, but can be) a solution for quite a bit less than a Cisco 7005 or 12000. Using a package such as Zebra is a more effective solution if you require RIP, BGP and other things.
The You-Can-Spam act basically sets two types of spam: The pill-pusher organ-enhancing porno spam, which is bad, to Bidnez spam, which they call good.
With the You-CAN-SPAM act, every business gets one bite at the apple. Opt-out lists or "do-not-spam" lists will be just another tool for spammers to harvest working addresses. No, the best solution here is "A few good hangings", as the chairman of the FTC said.
RIAA: "Here, sucker, use our system that doesn't do squat and keeps you from doing what you were doing."
User: Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha *gasp* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
These people beleive their own propaganda. What dupes.
The community should come together and purchase the Unix rights from the smoking ruins of SCO and donate it to the Public Domain. That will forever end anyone from repeating McAssHat's antics.
The fallicy of that is that spam is not a technical problem. There is nothing technically wrong with spam. The spammer sent an email, it got there.
No, spam is not a technical problem. Spam is a human problem, and will never be completely stopped with solely technical solutions.
Ahhh. The "Frea Speech" arguement. (google for it.) Easy enough to rebut:
"Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit. "We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even 'good' ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often 'captives' outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere. The asserted right of a mailer, we repeat, stops at the outer boundary of every person's domain." - Chief Justice Warren Burger, US Supreme Court, Rowan v US Post Office
But that's just it. They won't show us the code. Perhaps that's making your point for you. Maybe that's why they won't show the code.
Of couse the real conspiracy nut in me says that they'd plan it out from day one, buying the soul of some small kernel hacker and actually coauthoring his contribution.
Doctrine of "unclean hands" would see that tossed out fairly quickly. If I were the attorney trying to defend against this, first thing I'd do is call for disclosure of the programmer's bank account, and make him account for every penny. Then get on the stand and swear that he had no ties to SCO.
OK. "NUT". *grin*
Only if someone held a gun to Linus' head. Remember, anything that gets into the kernel, Linus takes at least a passing squint at. M$ code isn't good enough to get into the kernel.
The GPL is a license, granting rights to use a copyrighted work.
Copyrights are based on Title 17 of the USC.
The USC is ruled on by a Federal judge.
Copyright violations are investigated by the FBI.
Ticking off a federal judge can result in Federal Marshalls on your doorstep.
Federal Marshalls and FBI agents carry guns.
What part of a man on your doorstep with a gun do you find not to be based on strong IP laws, Darl?
Oh, *slaps forehead*, I forgot. "All Linux code are belong to SCO, now."
To protect your rights, we limit them.
'The broadcast flag protects consumers' use and enjoyment of broadcast video programming.
Sure am glad that I don't watch TV anymore. Looks like I won't be watching movies now.
I went into Bust Buy the other day looking at a HDTV setup, with fairly good sound, a nice picture, a recorder.... all that stuff. It ran over $6,000.00 for everything.
HELLO? Like just *what* friggin' show is worth SIX FREAKIN' KILOBUCKS to watch?
Is RIAA the single most criminal company in the US? What other company can sell things made by people that don't get paid for making them?
Friends don't let friends by RIAA music. It's that simple.