Yes, I realize that Linus has already stated that he won't look at the code, for good reasons, I just used him as an EXAMPLE
Linus has to keep "clean hands". In this case, he can't look at code under an NDA. This allows him to refute any charge "YOU COPIED MY CODE!!!!" by saying, "But I never saw your code. How could I have copied it?"
Now, the pun on "Clean Hands" and SCO code is obvious, so let's just let it go.
Thus, it would be possible to fragment your packets locally to a very high degree so that a router in the backbone would never be able to tell what protocol is in use because the packets would be sent via various hosts.
Highly fragmented traffic or small MTU's get an instant squint on many networks.
A friend was telling me that someone where she works got fired for using internet radio at work. They had been told twice (and written up) not to do that anymore because of bandwidth issues.
I call it employment darwinism. Trying to avoid being discovered in AUP issues like this is a good way to piss off people that can rock your world. It gains you very little for a lot of risk. So, by all means, go ahead. Someone else behind you needs a job...
Corporate america is at the controls, buddy boy. No sham too outragious, no scam too criminal, no fraud too fraught, no right too precious to trample. Hey, it's big government getting out of the way of business. Get used to it. After you loose your cherry, it doesn't hurt too much.
I'm just waiting for some bozo to re-open a whale oil lamp factory, and sue the EPA for making it illegal to hunt whales for their blubber.
Not just programmers, but accountents and others too.
Many have pointed out that there are lots of ways around the tax, and that enforcing it would be difficult. Simple enforcement idea that will grab the companies inclined to do this by the short and curlies: Evade the tax, get found guilty, lose ALL COPYRIGHTS. There. That ought to do it.
The first time a working stiff gets laid off because his job moved to elbonia, don't you think he's going to blow the whistle?
For those that say taxes are wrong, let me ask you this: If taxes are wrong, whose going to pay for the roads, public schools, defending our country, inspecting the food we eat, licensing the doctors we see, and so on and so on.
When American wages are too high, where are the customers to buy your product going to come from? What's to become of the American workers? Will we all live on welfare?
I've seen quite a bit of "getting government out of the way of business". Personally, I'd like to see government more in the way. Enron and that ilk should have been watched much closer. The whole power crisis thing in CA was just a scam to profit by billions for the people already rich.
Same thing with exempting dividend income from taxes. The reasoning is that "the tax has already been paid on that money once!" Hey, quit being stupid. Clue for you; the money earned by the working schmoe has had the tax paid on it once already too.
Look to see who holds more than 70% of dividend stocks. Hint: Ain't you and I.
So why SHOULD the rich pay "more than their fair share"?
In two days I have had maybe 100 hack attempts. All using variations on "GET/something/cmd.exe" or "GET/something/dir.exe". I'm amused, 'cause my Linux box ain't going to get hacked that way.
But, WTF... they're using up MY bandwidth. Why can't ISPs take some responsibility for detecting script kiddies. There can be exactly no un-patched useless WinNT boxen out there. Why shouldn't Mr ScriptKiddy be asked to pay for the bandwidth?
(I'm thinking about setting up a DDOS system on anybody that tries to 'hack' my server. Just for a laugh, obviously.)
Remove yourself from the internet. Do it now. You've just proven you are too
careless, clueless and uneducated
to be allowed to run a workstation, let alone a server.
Go read This. When you understand it, and know why you are clueless for your above statement and can control your juvenile "I'm god's gift to the world and everyone else is just stupid and clueless, i'm so 1337!' urges, let yourself back on the internet.
I'm betting it will be a long time, if you are honest. Dolt.
From now on, anyone with a scanner and access to the database where you bought stuff can know who you are, where you are. Walk into a Walmart on the other side of the world, and your RFID tag can identify you...
I used to work for a national rent-to-own finance company, repo arm (for when the store went broke, we'd take it over and run it until it was sold).
One of the first things done was to computerize the operation. (This in the day of 9600 baud modems at USD $1K each, mind). People were surprised when they moved from California to Georga, (skiping off with the rented items) and we would know about the stuff they hadn't paid for when they went to another store (frequently with a different name).
(Of course, policy was to act like nothing was the matter, get the delivery address, then show up to take the stuff back.)
The only thing I can add to this is...
"Avoid small system mentallity".
You want it easy for Joe-Six-Pack? Fine. Don't lock out the sysadmins and techs that have to support 18K+ desktops. The single most fustrating thing about Microfsck products is their inabillity to scale to large enviroments. That, and they are so bad they don't even suck.
I had a nice rant that I was going to post. I didn't.
Why, you didn't ask?
Because I'm afraid to. I'm afraid that I'll be visited by those kind folks in the black suits and the letters de cachete.
When a person feels that to critize the government in public is dangerous to his/her life or freedom, is he/she living in a free country?
I love my country. I don't think much of this Bush government. Why does that make me unpatrotic in your eyes? I wouldn't call you unpatrotic just because you like a drunk, coke sniffing AWOL idiot for your president. Of questionable intellect maybe, but not unpatrotic.
I don't think that Ashcroft is fully to blame here either.
No, Ashcroft is not fully to blame. Full blame and responsibillity goes to two sources:
The SCotUS, and the people for allowing the perfidious and treasonious decision to stand unchallanged.
All we can do now is our duty as citizens.
Is it the duty of the citizens to oppose repression, oppose injustice, oppose illegal and unlawful acts? If yes, then why do we a PATRIOT I, much less II being suggested?
If enough people say hey this is going too far, well, then things will change.
I'm glad you feel that way. Of course, I don't feel that way. But you knew that.
Again, I would like to see the relevant laws regarding non citzens. I believe the constituion protects CITIZENS and not those form other countries.
You can find the relevent law here. Please note that nowhere does it say "citizens", and that it does say "The People" and "The Accused". NB: In V, it says "except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger;". Please note that a decleration from congress declaring war or public emergency has not issued. Nor has a deceleration of public emergency. Nor has congress been prohibited from discharging it's duties, thus allowing the president to do so in its place.
We SHOULD be suspicious of those from suspect countries.
And who should decide who is suspicious and who isn't? Why? During WWII, we locked up anyone that was Japanese. Why? "'cause we're 'maricans, and thays not!" just doesn't strike me as fair or just.
These people do not have as many rights as we do and are treated accordingly.
Why? Is there some limited supply of rights? Must we ration "rights" to only those that can prove they belong to "us"? If something isn't applied to everyone equally, then it isn't a right. It's a privilege. It was called "The Bill Of Rights", not "The Bill of Privileges granted only to Anglo Saxon Protestant Men that vote Republican."
Principals are what a person is willing to die for rather than violate. They define a person, and identify what he/she is. Principals are not discarded when they become the least bit of trouble, otherwise they are the empty words of a selfserving lier.
until those on ROKSO harvests the addresses and spams them from Koria?
About 2 seconds? And how will you sue them? Which court? And if you win, how do you get the assets of a company run by some chickenboner that hijacked said insecure proxy and left no logs?
Nope. This bill will be part of the problem. False sense of security and a target for those that oppose The Lumber Cartel(tinlc).
Income informaion - none
bunch of other stuff, said that I carried too high a balance on my credit cards (Huh? all but one paid off, and that one that isn't has 1/2 still left on the credit line), that I needed MORE credit from retailers, and that my house was not expensive enough for my income.
WTF? You just said you didn't know what my income was, fw!
After reviewing my own reports over the years, I find that as far as credit worthiness goes, it's a waste of time and money to use a credit report to make decisions about anything. Might was well use a Magic 8 Ball.
Oh like the anti-MS crowd? Or is that 'different'?
Anti-MS? You mean like Apple, or Sun? Hmmm. Well, seems Microsoft was found guilty of breaking license agrements with Sun, and got it's wittle fingies whaps, but not too hard. Not sure about Apple, I don't follow them much.
No, my point, to the extent there's one at all, is that if RamBus technology is superior, then I have no problem paying for it. And if it's not, then I won't buy it, if at all possible. I was pointing out that many Dot-Bombs resorted to filing suits when the burn rate demanded more fuel and there wasn't anymore cash in the bunker.
'Nother dot-bomb trying to make money via suits versus innovation.
If their technology is so good, then why should be protest paying for it. If it's so bad, why would we buy it?
Listen crowd, quit yer yappin'. You don't like it, the stop FSCK'ing buying MPAA and RIAA "intellectual" property.
OK, let me try nice, short words:
Q: How long would Sony stay in business if no one bought their stuff?
A: About three months, tops.
Q: How long would movie studios stay in business if no one watches their movies because they support MPAA?
A: About two months.
Get it? Want to watch CNN? OK, then write to the advertisers on CNN and tell them why you won't buy their products if they continue to advertise on CNN. No stopping Disney, they just have to go.
Once some big players start to do the dot-bomb burn, others will learn. Until that happens, this is all so much eyewash. Quit postering and start paying dues to EFF and the like.
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Linus has to keep "clean hands". In this case, he can't look at code under an NDA. This allows him to refute any charge "YOU COPIED MY CODE!!!!" by saying, "But I never saw your code. How could I have copied it?"
Now, the pun on "Clean Hands" and SCO code is obvious, so let's just let it go.
Highly fragmented traffic or small MTU's get an instant squint on many networks.
A friend was telling me that someone where she works got fired for using internet radio at work. They had been told twice (and written up) not to do that anymore because of bandwidth issues.
I call it employment darwinism. Trying to avoid being discovered in AUP issues like this is a good way to piss off people that can rock your world. It gains you very little for a lot of risk. So, by all means, go ahead. Someone else behind you needs a job...
After the judge laughs SCO out of the court, I've a few hundred more for the legal OFFENSE fund...
If that works for you, fine. I work in a Texas School District. If I fail to report a crime involving a child, I go to jail just as fast.
Reporing child abuse is just the right thing to do. They frown on it if you kill the t*rd yourself.
By their actions, they called me a theif.
When I complained, they said the complaint was because I had "other interests" than using the software.
They ignored my complaints for months.
They reserve the right to do it again if they want.
Now why would I give my money to someone that insults and ignores me? Why would they expect me to?
Nope. I'm gone for good.
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Final-Recipient: RFC822;
abuse@emarketersamerica.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.3
Violates the RFCs. Added to local block lists.
Would someone submit them to rfc-ignorant.org?
Sadly, no prior art found. Best pay the piper...
How long until we see:
Make money FAST crusing your neighborhood! Annoy millions of people with unrelenting spam!
I'm just waiting for some bozo to re-open a whale oil lamp factory, and sue the EPA for making it illegal to hunt whales for their blubber.
I won't see a Sony movie.
I won't listen to Sony music.
I won't buy a Sony product.
Sony is evil. Sony is greedy. Sony can Kilo-Mike-Alpha.
Go ahead. Give more money to the people persecuiting Jon Johnson and others for Sony's own failed business model.
And flys cause garbage.
Many have pointed out that there are lots of ways around the tax, and that enforcing it would be difficult. Simple enforcement idea that will grab the companies inclined to do this by the short and curlies: Evade the tax, get found guilty, lose ALL COPYRIGHTS. There. That ought to do it.
The first time a working stiff gets laid off because his job moved to elbonia, don't you think he's going to blow the whistle?
For those that say taxes are wrong, let me ask you this: If taxes are wrong, whose going to pay for the roads, public schools, defending our country, inspecting the food we eat, licensing the doctors we see, and so on and so on.
When American wages are too high, where are the customers to buy your product going to come from? What's to become of the American workers? Will we all live on welfare?
I've seen quite a bit of "getting government out of the way of business". Personally, I'd like to see government more in the way. Enron and that ilk should have been watched much closer. The whole power crisis thing in CA was just a scam to profit by billions for the people already rich.
Same thing with exempting dividend income from taxes. The reasoning is that "the tax has already been paid on that money once!" Hey, quit being stupid. Clue for you; the money earned by the working schmoe has had the tax paid on it once already too.
Look to see who holds more than 70% of dividend stocks. Hint: Ain't you and I.
So why SHOULD the rich pay "more than their fair share"?
Hey, stupid! BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS.
As stated, this won't happen. First reason, money. Second reason, control. Third reason, No one would use it once they got a look at the source.
Nimda.
Look here to stop it.
(I'm thinking about setting up a DDOS system on anybody that tries to 'hack' my server. Just for a laugh, obviously.)
Remove yourself from the internet. Do it now. You've just proven you are too
- careless, clueless and uneducated
to be allowed to run a workstation, let alone a server.Go read This. When you understand it, and know why you are clueless for your above statement and can control your juvenile "I'm god's gift to the world and everyone else is just stupid and clueless, i'm so 1337!' urges, let yourself back on the internet.
I'm betting it will be a long time, if you are honest. Dolt.
I used to work for a national rent-to-own finance company, repo arm (for when the store went broke, we'd take it over and run it until it was sold).
One of the first things done was to computerize the operation. (This in the day of 9600 baud modems at USD $1K each, mind). People were surprised when they moved from California to Georga, (skiping off with the rented items) and we would know about the stuff they hadn't paid for when they went to another store (frequently with a different name).
(Of course, policy was to act like nothing was the matter, get the delivery address, then show up to take the stuff back.)
You want it easy for Joe-Six-Pack? Fine. Don't lock out the sysadmins and techs that have to support 18K+ desktops. The single most fustrating thing about Microfsck products is their inabillity to scale to large enviroments. That, and they are so bad they don't even suck.
And that's really bad.
True. It's giving him way too much credit.
I had a nice rant that I was going to post. I didn't.
Why, you didn't ask?
Because I'm afraid to. I'm afraid that I'll be visited by those kind folks in the black suits and the letters de cachete.
When a person feels that to critize the government in public is dangerous to his/her life or freedom, is he/she living in a free country?
I love my country. I don't think much of this Bush government. Why does that make me unpatrotic in your eyes? I wouldn't call you unpatrotic just because you like a drunk, coke sniffing AWOL idiot for your president. Of questionable intellect maybe, but not unpatrotic.
I don't think that Ashcroft is fully to blame here either.
No, Ashcroft is not fully to blame. Full blame and responsibillity goes to two sources:
The SCotUS, and the people for allowing the perfidious and treasonious decision to stand unchallanged.
All we can do now is our duty as citizens.
Is it the duty of the citizens to oppose repression, oppose injustice, oppose illegal and unlawful acts? If yes, then why do we a PATRIOT I, much less II being suggested?
If enough people say hey this is going too far, well, then things will change.
I'm glad you feel that way. Of course, I don't feel that way. But you knew that.Again, I would like to see the relevant laws regarding non citzens. I believe the constituion protects CITIZENS and not those form other countries.
You can find the relevent law here. Please note that nowhere does it say "citizens", and that it does say "The People" and "The Accused". NB: In V, it says "except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger;". Please note that a decleration from congress declaring war or public emergency has not issued. Nor has a deceleration of public emergency. Nor has congress been prohibited from discharging it's duties, thus allowing the president to do so in its place.
We SHOULD be suspicious of those from suspect countries.
And who should decide who is suspicious and who isn't? Why? During WWII, we locked up anyone that was Japanese. Why? "'cause we're 'maricans, and thays not!" just doesn't strike me as fair or just.
These people do not have as many rights as we do and are treated accordingly.
Why? Is there some limited supply of rights? Must we ration "rights" to only those that can prove they belong to "us"? If something isn't applied to everyone equally, then it isn't a right. It's a privilege. It was called "The Bill Of Rights", not "The Bill of Privileges granted only to Anglo Saxon Protestant Men that vote Republican."
Principals are what a person is willing to die for rather than violate. They define a person, and identify what he/she is. Principals are not discarded when they become the least bit of trouble, otherwise they are the empty words of a selfserving lier.
About 2 seconds? And how will you sue them? Which court? And if you win, how do you get the assets of a company run by some chickenboner that hijacked said insecure proxy and left no logs?
Nope. This bill will be part of the problem. False sense of security and a target for those that oppose The Lumber Cartel (tinlc).
Employment information - none
Income informaion - none
bunch of other stuff, said that I carried too high a balance on my credit cards (Huh? all but one paid off, and that one that isn't has 1/2 still left on the credit line), that I needed MORE credit from retailers, and that my house was not expensive enough for my income.
WTF? You just said you didn't know what my income was, fw!
After reviewing my own reports over the years, I find that as far as credit worthiness goes, it's a waste of time and money to use a credit report to make decisions about anything. Might was well use a Magic 8 Ball.
Anti-MS? You mean like Apple, or Sun? Hmmm. Well, seems Microsoft was found guilty of breaking license agrements with Sun, and got it's wittle fingies whaps, but not too hard. Not sure about Apple, I don't follow them much.
No, my point, to the extent there's one at all, is that if RamBus technology is superior, then I have no problem paying for it. And if it's not, then I won't buy it, if at all possible. I was pointing out that many Dot-Bombs resorted to filing suits when the burn rate demanded more fuel and there wasn't anymore cash in the bunker.
'Nother dot-bomb trying to make money via suits versus innovation.
If their technology is so good, then why should be protest paying for it. If it's so bad, why would we buy it?
*Shrug*
OK, let me try nice, short words:
Q: How long would Sony stay in business if no one bought their stuff?
A: About three months, tops.
Q: How long would movie studios stay in business if no one watches their movies because they support MPAA?
A: About two months.
Get it? Want to watch CNN? OK, then write to the advertisers on CNN and tell them why you won't buy their products if they continue to advertise on CNN.
No stopping Disney, they just have to go.
Once some big players start to do the dot-bomb burn, others will learn. Until that happens, this is all so much eyewash. Quit postering and start paying dues to EFF and the like.
Rule 1: Spammers lie.
Rule 2: Spammers are stupid. Not to say they are not cunning, but stupid.
Rule 3: If you think a spammer is telling you the truth, see Rule 1.
Rule 4: Spammers will stop when they can't make money fast! spamming.
So, lets list the costs involved in this, front to back, and see if we (there is no we) can figure out the costs:
Building - buy or rent
Office Equipment - buy or rent
Permits and Certifications of Occupiancy.
Safty inspections
taxes
Support staff - custodians and such
Garbage/sewage/water/electric/gas/phone/internet
Paraprofessionals salary - receptionist, office manager, so on
Furnature/rugs/artwork
Health insurance for employees
Professional salaries
Officer salaries
Legal retainer - non-flakey foaming at the mouth services (EG:No Napster suits)
Payroll taxes
Signage
Advertising
Building maintance
Security/armed gaurds/alarm/nightwatchman
Computers/infrastructure/lan/hardware/software
Recording equipment
Cells phones/PDA's/office supplies/postage
I'm sure I missed quite a bit here. Someone else fill in what I didn't think of off the top of my head...
It may seem silly, but I'm currently searching for a multi-channel recorder for closed circuit TV in a mall.
The question asked in the contex used might have been silly, but the question in another context isn't.
And yes, I have Karma to burn too, but I don't give a swip about Karma anyway.