I've read... the problem is that I've read 1984 too... and I think that we are getting the worst of both worlds... vigillance from government and cattle-like treatment from industries.
and its working... I'm impressed with the quantity of parents that spend huge sums so they kids can be succesful in the globalized world, with the best schools, language schools, particular classes for sports.
things that people dont seem to ask or perceive: - children don't give a fuck about success or future, at most they try to please their parents - what is succes? - who said that there will be a job waiting for your children even if they studied the "right" schools or gone to the " right" places? - there will be a world to live tomorrow?
here in Brazil there are people sending children to language schools (usually english, and when and IF the child gets fluency, spanish is almost sure to follow) very early... 5 or 6 years old, so they can learn a new language fluency and without accent. who the hell said that even native speakers don't have accents? why they think that somebody in the future will give their sons a position in the US or on the very top of an american company in brazil or somewhere in the world were that kind of skill will count?
so the imprinting of what to think in the society is already done (a la 1984 and brave new world), newspeak is at hand, since youngsters tend to read less, write less and use a limited vocabulary (Q:"what do you think about this?" ; A:"coool!")
I'm impressed with the level of lobying in the US. Any corporation, from Disney, to MS even SCO can lobby it's way in businness through a law... doesn't matter it hurts consumers (I was about to say citizens, but corporations see the people as consumers only - get used, you are a consumer with some citizenry rights that will be eroded little by little until you become just a CONSUMER)
Copyrights for 75 years? No, Mickey is already 75... let's make 120... Music sales is down? A new tax for CDR, tell people that downloading is thief... who cares if the music is shit? You are a consumer... the new hollywood blockbuster failed? the fucking consumers sending SMS messages and talking to friends that the movie is garbage, destroying a very well planned (and expensive) marketing plan... how dare you have an oppinion? shut up and buy, or else you are a communist, a terrorist or some other "ist"
Due the trail left by others I don't think that SCO is doomed to failure... I can see even a chance of victory...
There was a simmilar testing in the 80's from some audiophile magazine.
It was the time of the boom for CD players, with praces ranging from US$100 and above US$1000
The question: since the CD has a standard wich by itself guarantees a specific bandwidth, a very low harmonic distortion, wow-and-flutter almost immesurable, etc... does make a difference buying a cheap or a expensive player?
From a technical point of view, no, audiophiles said yes... the "better electronics" (whatever it was) would improve the sound.
A test rig was made, many audiophiles invited, double blind, yadda-yadda, the same person hearing the same music from different players votted the quality of sound.
result? whatever you had a US$100 player or a US$1000, the sound was the same... the standard was giving the quality...
maybe today we could have some difference due the very cheap players that are being made, maybe some manufacturers are cutting costs in the analog outputs, dropping signal levels, etc... but I can't be sure, since the components also evolved and are cheaper today and can give better results...
when playing videogames you really want do phisical effort... that's why you play video games... the problem were the flimsy controls that couldn't stand... I can see the sales soaring...
Our constitution have some points simmilar to yours, but I think that is because yours was modelled with principles from the Iluminism and French Revolution (maybe a masonic heritage?) where the legislators here got some inspiration.
The period where the official name of the country was "Republica dos Estados Unidos do Brasil" the only simmilarity was the name. At these times the states of the federation were not even close from the autonomy that you have in your states (as I recall a state can even declare indepence under some circunstances, that led to your civil war when southern states wanted separation, wasn't?... correct me if I am wrong, please)
The name was changed to Republica Federativa do Brasil in the late 60s.
Even today, after a constitutional change in '88, the autonomy improved but still way more limited than in US
Where I criticized your form of government? I replied to a critic about stupid persons in public positions. We don't have a monopoly in these types, neither you.
You should go back to the reading classes, instead urging others to civic classes... you misunderstood the whole sense of a few phrases... impressive!
It's being used here just to pressure the Brazilian Foreign Relationships Dept to act on behalf of Brazilians travelling to US, so they can be included in the list of citizens that don't need previous identification.
That law will probably be overruled in the next few days, since it wasn't issued by the Brazilian Supreme Court (don't ask... regional courts can issue directives that are valid for all country, and that can be overruled in superior courts... you don't want to understand the Brazilian legal system, believe me...)
The federal government is moving against it and also the State of Rio de Janeiro, since it can have an impact in the tourists flow, since the fingerprinting here is being done manually (cardboards were you put your fingerprint)
The relationship with foreign citizens here is based on reciprocity: i.e., the treatment applied is the same that a given country apply to Brazilian citizens. Eg. frenchs, englishes, portugueses don't need visas to come here, since their countries don't ask for visas from us. Americans need visas since they require visas from us.
That's why the only citizens asked for fingerprinting are the americans: is the only country asking that kind of identification from us.
I agree with this, since is the only way to pressure both governments (US and Brazil) to find some alternative.
I also agree that the law was passed hastily, without giving time to the Brazilian federal Police to acquire a more modern equipment (digital fingerprinting is available here) and allocate more personal to do the job, so american tourists are waiting loooooong time to be identified. It is nasty, but is not personal...
You are a lone programmer (or a small company), so for you working with softwares tailored for your clients may be better. Probably open source software could be adequate for your business as a secondary tool (eg. using mysql instead of oracle or MSSQL to lower your client expenses)
OR you may work as employee from a bigger outfit that may sell support for a open source app that you were hied to develop.
The fact that the software is free (like gratis) doesn't mean that everybody responsible for it's development isn't being finnancially rewarded for it.
I think that I understood your point of view: you are thinking that the premise from the free software is that it is gratis and all programmers should work for free (in fact killing programming as a profession, since working in something for nothing (financially speaking) can be possible only for a hobbyst or a enthusiast that already have an income for maintaing it's living).
please read carefully the faq at FSF, you'll see that they are talking about sharing your code WHEN and IF beneficial for the person that developed it initially.
two important facts that free software provide:
-you can start a specialized and useful software but don't have enough knowledge or resource to polish it the way you liked. You release it as open source, small contributions start pouring, the source code from these improvements is available for you and everybody else and in time it can be so good as you envisioned it or even better.
-if you write some code and some big company start using it without acknowledging you (the creator), nor sharing it's improvements with you, you can demand they stop using it.
you ask: why waste time and effort and not charge for it? personal marketing is a good one. when you hear about people like linus torvalds, richard stallman, you allways hear how tallented they are, and usually you also hear that they are well employed. how come if they don't charge for they products? Their tallent is recognized. personal satisfaction is other.
but, repeating, nobody is demanding that you work for free or write only open source programs! do this if this is fit for you and your business!
BUT: don't use open source code in your applications if you don't wan't to make it open source also. that was a demand from the person that wrote that open source part that you are interested. You don't want that nobody use your software if not paying for it, so don't use open source software from people that only allow it's use if you make your product open source (that's how they want to be paid, you want money, some people want more free software, you both are in your rights)
free software gave us: TCP/IP, DNS, email, ftp, WWW, in fact, gave us Internet. GAVE US, free, gratis, gave us source code, so you can use parts (or all) of these features in your program as you see fit. You can charge for it, if you want.
Just read the license, you'll see that are times that you can charge, times that you can't, sometimes you have to open source your derivative work, sometimes don't. do as you do with all your other tools: read the licence! see what it permits you to do and what don't. If it's fit for you, use, if don't go ahead!
Think like the personal edition from some borland tools (like c++ builder): you can use all the features and create your apps with it. YOU CAN'T sell any of YOUR apps created with the PERSONAL edition. Why? The licence says so. If you wan't to sell apps created with these tools you have to buy a more expensive professional or enterprise edition.
See? limitations of use already exist. what do you do? choose the ones that are more adequate for you. the same with free software!
but please don't act like the moron at forbes, that wrote an article (see older articles at/.) bashing free software because that some company acquired by Cisco (linksys?) was being prompted or to open source
and from that part I make my point: for the company the bottom line is the profit. If a company makes profit from selling a software or selling a service for their software (that can be acquired gratis), doesn't matter.
for the user the perception of payment sometime is blurred. most people think that they bought their windows copy, but what they really bought is a licence of use.
You are confusing "free" with "gratis". It's free because you (or a company) can access the source code.
Company A develop a database as free software and sells some copies, publish source, let you download it gratis (why pay if you can download gratis? paying grant yoy access to support, configuration experts, etc). company B sees that product, use the source, add features, clean bugs and have to give the corrected sources.
Company B can charge for the new features, sell its support, company A can get the corrections and improve even further.
Something like that happens with mysql. Why would you pay for mysql, since you can download it gratis? support, configuration, tailored tools.
most of the IT work in programation is made by small companies that sell services or custom programs. The IT company that makes the more money is microsoft, with their operating systems and office package.
The smaller companies wouldnt be hurt as you imagine with the adoption of free software.
haven't you seen people charging for customized Access "programs" or Excel worksheets? Why would someone pay for something that they could do themselves? because they can't do it by themselves (lack of time, knowledge)
the free software has a great potential, and it isn't a niche market.
dracula has a duality cult: for the people in transylvania he was (is) a hero, that expelled the otomans, but other people from europe (or just outside transylvania) view as the incarnation of devil (dracul)
as it can be compared to the hitler cult done by white supremacists, skinheads, neo-nazis and others I can't tell..
"the Force is really generated by bacterial midichlorians infections" is the proof that george lucas turned to the dark side... since ep. IV we knew (we, the older people (+30) son, let me rest in the chair and I'll tell you a story) that the rebelion was against the empire, trying to restore the republic that was fair and just.
what we see in ep.I? a mob of bureaucrats that can't move to do justice from an armored corporation against a pacific planet... that's what the rebels wanted to restore? come on...
the midichlorians part almost made me cry... the force was just it... something around living things that some people could sense and even control to gain apparent impossible powers, no mather race, intelligence... now it's a puny bachteria-like thing that can be detected with a blood test...
the jedi? the keepers of peace and justice? monk-like beings, that couldn't have a family or get involved with mundane matters... that part blew me away... everybdy used to read the star wars book remember jedi characters that had a family.... even luke is married in the books, corran horn came from a lineage of jedis... and the books were "aproved material" by lucas arts, so they could be considered "gospel"
george lucas ignored all this to write the first three episodes... the dark side is powerful, indeed...
the pattern seems a tumor... or an infection... but I said virus since agent Smith is a computer program and we don't have (at least we don't call) a "computer tumor" and clearly he isn't a worm... we'll... he may be spread like one, but I wouldn't say "hey smith, you worm"... no sir...:-)
reading your class I almost forgot that matrix reloaded was a shitty film, but unfortunatelly the movie wasn't so good as your summarization IMO.
All the parts were there, but something was missing...
the first movie was excellent, a hint about our own world that could be an illusion... the second... failed a little, the very long kung fu sequences weren't necessary... but was very open ended... a matrix inside a matrix, maybe neo wasn't really out of the matrix, why could he destroy the sentinels?... the third... shit... so many possibilities and they did the special SFX messiah thing...
BTW, I don't think that agent Smith cloned himself... I think that he was acting like a virus, infecting and replicating his behaviour in other programs and ignoring termsig. only when neo was infected the architect could see the procces number and kill it
and more, the horror, the horror... the matrix run a MS OS... only that damn thing can have so much viruses and proccesses running amok ignoring every kill sign:-)
are you kidding? without dmca and under a more open atmosphere kevin mitnick was accused of being capable of start a nuclear war using a pay phone and a whistler and stoling code from sun that worth 1 billion (the prosecution said it, the same code that you could buy at the time around US$300)
the russian guy... the one that cracked adobe pdf, spent days in the jail without proper defense
with that paranoia what do you think that would happen to a DVD John in the US? the miserable fella would be charged of theft, terrorism (trying to break american companies out of business)...
IF he was tried probably would be in guantanamo...
"I was pushed out by a 3rd party vendor, who labeled me the major security risk, after performing a 'vulnerability assessment.' "
If you have been fired with that argument and if you performed your job within the expected parameters find a lawyer and sue them.
Not for vengeance or something like this... just business...
Have you thought about your future employers calling your old job for references? "The old network admin? Well, nice guy, but was fired because he was a security risk"
SCO can be on the right...or at least they think. The original lawsuit of Caldera against Microsoft (Caldera alleged that MS had unfairly taken out DR-DOS from the market) had a value of US$ 2 billion. The settlement was US$ 60 million (see http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~kkoster/micro soft/caldera.html)
When they had a case they settled for much less. 60 million is quite a large sum, but when you got an initial figure 30 times over...
MS must have assumed that they could lose the case... but I don't think that the IBM legal department wants to lay down the arms... like some of these evil and ancient gods that can't be put to sleep after they are invoked... they need a human sacrifice...:-)
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I've read... the problem is that I've read 1984 too... and I think that we are getting the worst of both worlds... vigillance from government and cattle-like treatment from industries.
and its working... I'm impressed with the quantity of parents that spend huge sums so they kids can be succesful in the globalized world, with the best schools, language schools, particular classes for sports.
things that people dont seem to ask or perceive:
- children don't give a fuck about success or future, at most they try to please their parents
- what is succes?
- who said that there will be a job waiting for your children even if they studied the "right" schools or gone to the " right" places?
- there will be a world to live tomorrow?
here in Brazil there are people sending children to language schools (usually english, and when and IF the child gets fluency, spanish is almost sure to follow) very early... 5 or 6 years old, so they can learn a new language fluency and without accent. who the hell said that even native speakers don't have accents? why they think that somebody in the future will give their sons a position in the US or on the very top of an american company in brazil or somewhere in the world were that kind of skill will count?
so the imprinting of what to think in the society is already done (a la 1984 and brave new world), newspeak is at hand, since youngsters tend to read less, write less and use a limited vocabulary (Q:"what do you think about this?" ; A:"coool!")
I'm impressed with the level of lobying in the US. Any corporation, from Disney, to MS even SCO can lobby it's way in businness through a law... doesn't matter it hurts consumers (I was about to say citizens, but corporations see the people as consumers only - get used, you are a consumer with some citizenry rights that will be eroded little by little until you become just a CONSUMER)
Copyrights for 75 years? No, Mickey is already 75... let's make 120... Music sales is down? A new tax for CDR, tell people that downloading is thief... who cares if the music is shit? You are a consumer... the new hollywood blockbuster failed? the fucking consumers sending SMS messages and talking to friends that the movie is garbage, destroying a very well planned (and expensive) marketing plan... how dare you have an oppinion? shut up and buy, or else you are a communist, a terrorist or some other "ist"
Due the trail left by others I don't think that SCO is doomed to failure... I can see even a chance of victory...
scary...
There was a simmilar testing in the 80's from some audiophile magazine.
It was the time of the boom for CD players, with praces ranging from US$100 and above US$1000
The question: since the CD has a standard wich by itself guarantees a specific bandwidth, a very low harmonic distortion, wow-and-flutter almost immesurable, etc... does make a difference buying a cheap or a expensive player?
From a technical point of view, no, audiophiles said yes... the "better electronics" (whatever it was) would improve the sound.
A test rig was made, many audiophiles invited, double blind, yadda-yadda, the same person hearing the same music from different players votted the quality of sound.
result? whatever you had a US$100 player or a US$1000, the sound was the same... the standard was giving the quality...
maybe today we could have some difference due the very cheap players that are being made, maybe some manufacturers are cutting costs in the analog outputs, dropping signal levels, etc... but I can't be sure, since the components also evolved and are cheaper today and can give better results...
when playing videogames you really want do phisical effort... that's why you play video games... the problem were the flimsy controls that couldn't stand... I can see the sales soaring...
Our constitution have some points simmilar to yours, but I think that is because yours was modelled with principles from the Iluminism and French Revolution (maybe a masonic heritage?) where the legislators here got some inspiration.
The period where the official name of the country was "Republica dos Estados Unidos do Brasil" the only simmilarity was the name. At these times the states of the federation were not even close from the autonomy that you have in your states (as I recall a state can even declare indepence under some circunstances, that led to your civil war when southern states wanted separation, wasn't?... correct me if I am wrong, please)
The name was changed to Republica Federativa do Brasil in the late 60s.
Even today, after a constitutional change in '88, the autonomy improved but still way more limited than in US
Where I criticized your form of government? I replied to a critic about stupid persons in public positions. We don't have a monopoly in these types, neither you.
You should go back to the reading classes, instead urging others to civic classes... you misunderstood the whole sense of a few phrases... impressive!
not even a good troll!
1st: "...orthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis."
:-)
2nd: "Comparing the fingerprinting of people visiting our country to genocide is the height of stupidity."
in 2nd you are assuming that in 1st the judge was talking about genocide, no...he was talking about discrimination
3rd: "I'm surprised the Brazillian people allow someone so stupid to be a judge."
well... you have some examples in your country in higher offices and we don't complain
It's costing, but what matters is the principle: reciprocity.
It's being used here just to pressure the Brazilian Foreign Relationships Dept to act on behalf of Brazilians travelling to US, so they can be included in the list of citizens that don't need previous identification.
That law will probably be overruled in the next few days, since it wasn't issued by the Brazilian Supreme Court (don't ask... regional courts can issue directives that are valid for all country, and that can be overruled in superior courts... you don't want to understand the Brazilian legal system, believe me...)
The federal government is moving against it and also the State of Rio de Janeiro, since it can have an impact in the tourists flow, since the fingerprinting here is being done manually (cardboards were you put your fingerprint)
The relationship with foreign citizens here is based on reciprocity: i.e., the treatment applied is the same that a given country apply to Brazilian citizens. Eg. frenchs, englishes, portugueses don't need visas to come here, since their countries don't ask for visas from us. Americans need visas since they require visas from us.
That's why the only citizens asked for fingerprinting are the americans: is the only country asking that kind of identification from us.
I agree with this, since is the only way to pressure both governments (US and Brazil) to find some alternative.
I also agree that the law was passed hastily, without giving time to the Brazilian federal Police to acquire a more modern equipment (digital fingerprinting is available here) and allocate more personal to do the job, so american tourists are waiting loooooong time to be identified. It is nasty, but is not personal...
A better explanation here:
http://members.aol.com/johnfranc/drac05.htm
were it states that another (less common?) meaning for "dracul" in romanian is devil.
that meaning was used by german-saxon detractors.
since that meaning is detractive and dracula is a hero for the romanian, your meaning (dragon) is the correct one.
Your case is more fit in the customized software.
/.) bashing free software because that some company acquired by Cisco (linksys?) was being prompted or to open source
You are a lone programmer (or a small company), so for you working with softwares tailored for your clients may be better. Probably open source software could be adequate for your business as a secondary tool (eg. using mysql instead of oracle or MSSQL to lower your client expenses)
OR you may work as employee from a bigger outfit that may sell support for a open source app that you were hied to develop.
The fact that the software is free (like gratis) doesn't mean that everybody responsible for it's development isn't being finnancially rewarded for it.
I think that I understood your point of view: you are thinking that the premise from the free software is that it is gratis and all programmers should work for free (in fact killing programming as a profession, since working in something for nothing (financially speaking) can be possible only for a hobbyst or a enthusiast that already have an income for maintaing it's living).
please read carefully the faq at FSF, you'll see that they are talking about sharing your code WHEN and IF beneficial for the person that developed it initially.
two important facts that free software provide:
-you can start a specialized and useful software but don't have enough knowledge or resource to polish it the way you liked. You release it as open source, small contributions start pouring, the source code from these improvements is available for you and everybody else and in time it can be so good as you envisioned it or even better.
-if you write some code and some big company start using it without acknowledging you (the creator), nor sharing it's improvements with you, you can demand they stop using it.
you ask: why waste time and effort and not charge for it? personal marketing is a good one. when you hear about people like linus torvalds, richard stallman, you allways hear how tallented they are, and usually you also hear that they are well employed. how come if they don't charge for they products? Their tallent is recognized. personal satisfaction is other.
but, repeating, nobody is demanding that you work for free or write only open source programs! do this if this is fit for you and your business!
BUT: don't use open source code in your applications if you don't wan't to make it open source also. that was a demand from the person that wrote that open source part that you are interested. You don't want that nobody use your software if not paying for it, so don't use open source software from people that only allow it's use if you make your product open source (that's how they want to be paid, you want money, some people want more free software, you both are in your rights)
free software gave us: TCP/IP, DNS, email, ftp, WWW, in fact, gave us Internet. GAVE US, free, gratis, gave us source code, so you can use parts (or all) of these features in your program as you see fit. You can charge for it, if you want.
Just read the license, you'll see that are times that you can charge, times that you can't, sometimes you have to open source your derivative work, sometimes don't. do as you do with all your other tools: read the licence! see what it permits you to do and what don't. If it's fit for you, use, if don't go ahead!
Think like the personal edition from some borland tools (like c++ builder): you can use all the features and create your apps with it. YOU CAN'T sell any of YOUR apps created with the PERSONAL edition. Why? The licence says so. If you wan't to sell apps created with these tools you have to buy a more expensive professional or enterprise edition.
See? limitations of use already exist. what do you do? choose the ones that are more adequate for you. the same with free software!
but please don't act like the moron at forbes, that wrote an article (see older articles at
and from that part I make my point: for the company the bottom line is the profit. If a company makes profit from selling a software or selling a service for their software (that can be acquired gratis), doesn't matter.
for the user the perception of payment sometime is blurred. most people think that they bought their windows copy, but what they really bought is a licence of use.
You are confusing "free" with "gratis". It's free because you (or a company) can access the source code.
Company A develop a database as free software and sells some copies, publish source, let you download it gratis (why pay if you can download gratis? paying grant yoy access to support, configuration experts, etc). company B sees that product, use the source, add features, clean bugs and have to give the corrected sources.
Company B can charge for the new features, sell its support, company A can get the corrections and improve even further.
Something like that happens with mysql. Why would you pay for mysql, since you can download it gratis? support, configuration, tailored tools.
most of the IT work in programation is made by small companies that sell services or custom programs. The IT company that makes the more money is microsoft, with their operating systems and office package.
The smaller companies wouldnt be hurt as you imagine with the adoption of free software.
haven't you seen people charging for customized Access "programs" or Excel worksheets? Why would someone pay for something that they could do themselves? because they can't do it by themselves (lack of time, knowledge)
the free software has a great potential, and it isn't a niche market.
dracula has a duality cult: for the people in transylvania he was (is) a hero, that expelled the otomans, but other people from europe (or just outside transylvania) view as the incarnation of devil (dracul)
as it can be compared to the hitler cult done by white supremacists, skinheads, neo-nazis and others I can't tell..
"the Force is really generated by bacterial midichlorians infections" is the proof that george lucas turned to the dark side... since ep. IV we knew (we, the older people (+30) son, let me rest in the chair and I'll tell you a story) that the rebelion was against the empire, trying to restore the republic that was fair and just.
what we see in ep.I? a mob of bureaucrats that can't move to do justice from an armored corporation against a pacific planet... that's what the rebels wanted to restore? come on...
the midichlorians part almost made me cry... the force was just it... something around living things that some people could sense and even control to gain apparent impossible powers, no mather race, intelligence... now it's a puny bachteria-like thing that can be detected with a blood test...
the jedi? the keepers of peace and justice? monk-like beings, that couldn't have a family or get involved with mundane matters... that part blew me away... everybdy used to read the star wars book remember jedi characters that had a family.... even luke is married in the books, corran horn came from a lineage of jedis... and the books were "aproved material" by lucas arts, so they could be considered "gospel"
george lucas ignored all this to write the first three episodes... the dark side is powerful, indeed...
the pattern seems a tumor... or an infection... but I said virus since agent Smith is a computer program and we don't have (at least we don't call) a "computer tumor" and clearly he isn't a worm... we'll... he may be spread like one, but I wouldn't say "hey smith, you worm"... no sir... :-)
clap! clap! clap!
:-)
reading your class I almost forgot that matrix reloaded was a shitty film, but unfortunatelly the movie wasn't so good as your summarization IMO.
All the parts were there, but something was missing...
the first movie was excellent, a hint about our own world that could be an illusion... the second... failed a little, the very long kung fu sequences weren't necessary... but was very open ended... a matrix inside a matrix, maybe neo wasn't really out of the matrix, why could he destroy the sentinels?... the third... shit... so many possibilities and they did the special SFX messiah thing...
BTW, I don't think that agent Smith cloned himself... I think that he was acting like a virus, infecting and replicating his behaviour in other programs and ignoring termsig. only when neo was infected the architect could see the procces number and kill it
and more, the horror, the horror... the matrix run a MS OS... only that damn thing can have so much viruses and proccesses running amok ignoring every kill sign
"The US needs a DVD-Jon - any takers?"
are you kidding? without dmca and under a more open atmosphere kevin mitnick was accused of being capable of start a nuclear war using a pay phone and a whistler and stoling code from sun that worth 1 billion (the prosecution said it, the same code that you could buy at the time around US$300)
the russian guy... the one that cracked adobe pdf, spent days in the jail without proper defense
with that paranoia what do you think that would happen to a DVD John in the US? the miserable fella would be charged of theft, terrorism (trying to break american companies out of business)...
IF he was tried probably would be in guantanamo...
"I was pushed out by a 3rd party vendor, who labeled me the major security risk, after performing a 'vulnerability assessment.' "
If you have been fired with that argument and if you performed your job within the expected parameters find a lawyer and sue them.
Not for vengeance or something like this... just business...
Have you thought about your future employers calling your old job for references? "The old network admin? Well, nice guy, but was fired because he was a security risk"
and move on...
... a new way of "music consultants" to say that John Qbic will and when asked why thay will say:
- we have a scientific and proven method that even has an algorithm to sum all variables...
when in truth they should say:
- it's a guess... we've got the numbers from our assess...
"He's since been fired."
:-)
God... I loved that part... you must work in heaven...
Its too good... one more time:
"He's since been fired."
yeah
I would assume that a uniqye technology like that, with great military use would be very secured.
From the article you can guess that the thing was stashed in a barn, close to a room full of cash...
the so called "sucessful" test was recorded and witnessed?
Looks like a cover-up for a failed technology and a drain for (more) money...
SCO can be on the right...or at least they think. The original lawsuit of Caldera against Microsoft (Caldera alleged that MS had unfairly taken out DR-DOS from the market) had a value of US$ 2 billion. The settlement was US$ 60 million (see http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~kkoster/micro soft/caldera.html)
:-)
When they had a case they settled for much less. 60 million is quite a large sum, but when you got an initial figure 30 times over...
MS must have assumed that they could lose the case... but I don't think that the IBM legal department wants to lay down the arms... like some of these evil and ancient gods that can't be put to sleep after they are invoked... they need a human sacrifice...
that one was good:
Does China have a manned space program between 2001 and 2036?
I believe they are pretty close to putting a man in orbit. It shouldn't surprise you if they do that soon.
the article is just it...a troll...