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No, it only takes $2K to get PRnewswire to carry your press release and all the automated services like yahoo will automagically list it for each company that you list in the press release. I'm sure they edit for inanity, insanity and impersonation. But ESR and co should have no problem getting a few releases out on PRnewswire and associating them with SCO if they wanted to.
Except for that bit about ponying up $2k. Unless ESR was smart and dumped that RedHat stock he got at the first opportunity. Remember, Free Software programmers that work for free are generally not very rich. Free.:)
without advocating any and all spam-fighting measures I should point out that your second solution is outside the role of the United States Government. If the US gov wants to put such filters and blocks on their own gateways then they are more than welcome too. However, as the US is not China the gateway routers are not owned by the government and can not be treated as such. Companies will have to clue in here.
The US is also not Afghanistan, where tribal law is the rule of the day and leads to anarchy like this. It is completely within the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce; check your constitution. They regulate the automobile highways, and currently regulate the information superhighway. If the USA can mandate the installation of carnivore at every ISP and the equipment to tap phone calls at every telco switch, they can sure as hell mandate something that actually helps the citizenry.
Letting companies go willy nilly has been the destruction of the internet and is what allows spam. Our backbone internet providers enter secret agreements with spammers and provide them havens. I say we need to outlaw this crap and this is the easiest way to deal with it. There is absolutely no constitutional argument against this, either.
That whole orbital guidance tech for China deal in the 90s made me sick. I would have found Clinton, Congress and the Corporation all guilty of treason if it were up to me
The problem is that both Bushes let Loral do these types of missions. So it is not all Clinton. Then again, Clinton holds the distinction of being found in the pay of the Chinese army, which in my opinion just goes over the line w/r/t campaign finance shenanighans. Then again, all three have had a very pro-Beijing policy, even though Clinton promised to be tougher on dictators (and China specifically) than Bush Sr. had been.
As for selling national security short, it goes even deeper than the danger of our secret being leaked and important projects being in danger from terrorist attacks. It is clear that our greatest military asset is our economy itself. The US economy is what helped us win WWII and produce the equipment our soldiers use. Any American working to undermine the US economy as many of these corporations are doing is a traitor, pure and simple, and many of them are well aware of this as they are doing it on purpose. The rest are just being greedy, but their greed is no less treason than the people who sold secrets to foreign powers for money.
No, the guy could be sitting outside on the curb and say to me as I come home "Hey, I notice you have X brand locks on your doors and windows. You know you can open those things in 3 seconds with a credit card, I can show you if you like".
Then I wouldnt have a problem, and would appreciate his advice - the difference is he RESPECTED my property.
The same guy waiting in my living room is going to be beaten within an inch of his life (self defense ya know - my word against his), then dragged off to jail by the cops. Then sued.
I suppose you have a point. In my state I coudl get away with shooting the guy, actually. Actually your example reminds me of the time the local police, in the course of a traffic stop, asked me
"Er, you don't have anything valuable in that truck box, do you?"
"No, officer, why?"
"Well, you probably don't want to unless you get better locks. The standard locks on that box are way too easy to pick."
"Thank you, officer I will keep that in mind."
Granted, if they had wanted in the truck box they could have gotten in there. Being police officers and all, they took it upon themselves to let me know of a deficit in my security. Come to think of it, there are IIRC community programs through local police departments to help you increase home security and/or awareness thereof. Too bad the same does not exist w/r/t computer security.
This is the way security is supposed to work. You buy system insurance. They inspect your systems before they agree to take the risc. If they find weaknesses you can't sue them and say that they caused huge damages. Just like the guy who pointed out that you can't blame the building inspector for causing the problems that he finds.
The problem here is that it shifts the blame. The CEO, etc do not get hurt by having to pay more for insurance. It is much like the debacle we have now with malpractice insurance, where doctors just raise the rates of health care to high heaven as the insurance companies raise theirs with no fix to the actual fucking problem since nothing happens to the doctors. Worse, good doctors pay for high insurance as well even if they do good work.
Hammurabi had the right idea when it came to malpractice. Thousands of years ago, in the oldest known code of laws, we had a solution for malpractice. It was a criminal offense. This makes the doctor pay attention and does not raise rates when you go to good doctors.
Here as well, the case could be made for criminal negligence when the management refuses to allow fixes to the system. Especially when the holes in one system cause problems through dos attacks and worms filling up the network, or spam.
Be that as it may. OTOH, does anybody honestly believe that this will not be used as yet another excuse for the Chinese authorities to suppress real, non-spam free speech?
Interestingly enough, many Chinese spammers do have a message we would consider a legitemate use of free speech in the USA. For instance, news about SARS and the recent breaking of dams and flooding was spread by spam. it was the only way they could get the news out in China since the normal news was blocking these stories. There are also spams about Falung Gong, the outlawed "cult."
The question is, is there another way they could do this without spamming? Perhaps freenet or something like that? But then how do you let people know what there is to find?
What about people who pay nothing for their Internet connection - they only have to look at banner ads to support the service? Does spam cost them anything? What if the Internet became free for everyone. Would the spammers then have a right to send their junk?
Spam costs them more than anyone, because they are on slow dialup connections. Yes they pay for their internet connection with their eyeballs on ads and their time is still wasted.
Not intended as a flame, but there are interesting gradations here. It could be argued that spam, like the person who shouts 'fire!' in the movie theatre, is actually a DoS attack
BUt in both cases, what is punished (or should in the case of spam as it is in the case of fire in the theatre) is the action, not the speech. In other words, it is not illegal to shout fire in the theatre. It is illegal to incite a riot with intent to cause harm to people. Likewise, it is not illegal to write an email talking about viagra and small penises. But it should be illegal to waste people's bandwidth and disk space and time without them having a say in the matter.
In like manner, it should not be illegal to say whatever you want on the air (though the fcc does make distinctions) but it is certainly illegal to jam someone elses transmissions in order to do so (which is more akin to what is happening here).
It is too bad the USA and Russia couldnot get a clue here, and China has to lead the way. The solution to ending spam has always been simple, but the US admins/govt keeps throwing up their hands. he way to do it is
1) make spamming in the USA completely illegal, worth jailtime in federal pound-me-in0the-ass prison.
2) make it mandatory for border routers to block all traffic to and from servers on a black hole list which any network which is the origin of spam automatically gets added to.
If ISPs find out that if they allw spammers to have accounts wth them their whole network will be blocked, they will give up the spammers to get back in business. This is the only way to deal with these terrorists.
Isn't a Coming Soon page pretty common for most new domains?
All Network solutions/Verisign domains get a page that shows an ad for Network Solutions services unless they have a website up. I don't know of any registrar that does not currently put up something instead of the content if a customer does not put up content.
DNS is set up so you can't get screwed even if your registrar goes under
Where did you get that idea? Network Solutions won in court when they said a registrar owns the domain name database it maintains. This means that, yes, if your registrar goes under, there is no knowing what will happen to your domain. It might be available for otehrs to buy, or the database might go to some creditor who then says they own all the domains in the db, who knows? That question has not been resolved to my satisfaction.
It seems that the Network Solutions answer is that they actually own your domain and are letting you use it out of the goodness of their heart (and for the fee) which explains the cases in which they sold a domain twice or gave someone's domain away to someone else without any good explanation, then responded with "oh well" as in the sex.com case and many others. Other registrars I cannot speak for, but with such a cowboy ruling as that the rgistrar owns domains, it's pretty much up to the registrar to treat you how they feel like with no recourse whatsoever.
Interesting thing that Saudi Arabia is proven to be one of the largest "breeding ground" (for lack of a better term) and source of funding for terrorism, which is targeted at the US.
But corporations like breeding grounds for terrorism. They are the best place for them to put their sensitive data. The biggest places to outsource our jobs: India, Pakistan, China, Eastern Europe. All big nests of al-qaeda with the exception of China which is just a military enemy bent on stealing as much of our technology as possible (can't blame them). I saw it as poetic justice when Loral went under in the dot-bomb after being singlehandedly responsible for giving away military secrets to China which will make it possible for them to kill us all with ICBMs, though it does not make it any better.
Now not only are the grunt jobs being outsourced, but entire data centers and the planning of these data centers are being outsourced to India et al. Just wait till these companies get a taste of what happens when you do that, when India and Pakistan go to war again or some terrorists blow up their facility. Then again the more likely scenario is that these terrorists will infiltrate and then steal technology and data, particularly that from the DoD projects these companies are involved in. Good job assholes.
Maybe if the executives involved were tried for treason (which they are committing by aiding the enemy) things would be different. But at minimum we need to do something to make it more attractive for companies to source projects here instead of elsewhere.
I'd like to see just how poorly I rate (corrected for crappy South East Virginia wages, of course). Let me put it this way: I've seen the articles listing the average starting salary for a new college graduate; and, I want to know where I went wrong...
I think you answered your own question. If you want the good salary you have to move to a location where people actually get paid decent money. Be careful though, that you avoid places with high cost of living in your search. I found Texas is a sweet spot with decent pay and low cost of living. YMMV.
Do you want to come home to your house, turn on the lights only to find someone sitting on your sofa waiting to explain to you how insecure your house is because he was easily able to pick the locks? Even if he does no damage to your house and steals nothing is that something you'd like to come home to?
Actually, yes, if the guy offers to fix the problem. It would be wildly better than not fixing the security problems and coming home to find my TV, computers, stereo, etc gone and "J00 Sux0r!" spraypainted on my walls.
Perhaps if the FBI started going after network admins for doing such a crappy job we might start seeing less of these incidents.
In most cases, that would not solve the problem. Now if they were to go after the management who ordered holes in the security or refused to allow the admins to apply patches and implement good security practices, then you would be talking.
Well, after RTFA, it has everything to do with the SGI crap which has since been removed for being a kludge. This is the code snippet which we are aware of anyways.
Yes, but according to the submission someone else has already broken it down for us. Essentialy Perens was misquoted in a very deceitful manner (Darl decieve us? NO!:) ) Darl claims Bruce admitted the code was illegally copied. But Bruce had said it was legally copied under the license SCO provided for this code, and that the code was useless anyway and removed from the kernel.
Likewise, Darl is lying outright about ESR as usual. He claims that ESR has admitted that the DOS was from a Free Software developer. But ESR not only said that such a DOS would be wrong but on severaloccasions
I had to search really hard to find an article which even quoted ESR in a way that Darl could misquote the way he did. Darl was not nice enough to give a reference. Even so, it is clear form the article that despite Darls claims, ESR did not know the hacker and was only guessing by the nature of the attack that it was a Free Software developer who did it. He also had said from the beginning (in the above quotes) that DOSing SCO would be wrong and if it were happening it should stop. This is the source of Darl's quote that ESR asked the attacker to stop. Darl claims ESR knew hwo it was, admitted he knew who it was, and asked the person to stop but did not give him up to the authorities. THis is a complete fabrication as have been most of SCO's comments on Bruce Perens and ESR.
Would that be similar to Windows 2000's "Configuring Your Server" box that comes up upon first boot of Win2k Server?
No. Kickstart allows you to make an unattended installation disk which you can then use to install Redhat the same way on every machine. It is actually possible to do this with Windows if you learn how to edit unattend.txt....
I think this is a great move and may clear the way for Sun to be acquired by IBM or HP.
Oh hell, why don't SUN, HP, and IBM all merge and get it over with. Then they can move everything to Intel chips. After that, they can move everything to Microsoft Operating systems. You will be assimilated!:P
'm guessing you're not aware that the Onion is a real, serious publication, and only the first several pages are humor news. After you get past the first three pages or so, it's all real news (plus some good comics). Their interviews are among the best I've ever read, and their reviews of music are usually better than the typical "it's good, kinda like so-and-so". It's well worth the subscription price - I used to keep it on the back of the toilet, a mark of high regard for a newspaper indeed.
Well, I cannot speak for the print version (there is a print version?) but the Onion website is 100% malarky, though some people have been fooled into thinking its stories are real.
This is precisely why I refuse to buy ebooks. I will never buy content delivered in a format that has a time limit and has to be activated by an outside party. If that party decides to cut you off, or goes out of business, you are screwed out of your money. I laughed when Divx died because I knew it would happen eventually and all the early adopters would be screwed. Same for ebooks, unless you buy skylarov's software.
But about these parents; why did they allow this to happen? They should have known about the risks involved in trading music online, and lack of knowledge about the legal ramifications is no proper excuse. Even if a person fails to understand the laws in the area, that don't make them innocent.
From the article:
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?"... The family signed up for the Kazaa (search) music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge.... "It's not like we were doing anything illegal," said Torres. "This is a 12-year-old girl, for crying out loud."
So the parents and child thought they were paying a fee for a service to access the music (or such is their claim) and thus were not breaking any laws. Although the slashdot crowd is pretty savvy about this issue and its legal nuances, the average person isn't, and the portrayal in the media has not helped. The impression people must be getting is that these services are legal and are being challenged in court. The web sites for kazaa and morpheus do not give any impression that what is being done is illegal (of course!), and the media tend to give the impression that software like kazaa and morpheus are music swapping services offered by companies from their websites.
This all leads to a situation in which the average person could easily be led to believe that by paying kazaa they are not breaking any laws. They do not understand, nor does anyone at any point in this transaction explain to them, that they are "pirating" music from other people.
I think you're missing the point. Imagine you're living in a 10,000 sq. ft. mansion with 2 butlers, a cook, and a 26 year old supermodel wife. You come home from the office around 8:00 PM driving your Porsche 911 Turbo, pull into your 8-car garage and park between the Beamer and the Caddy, then sit down to a nice meal. After supper, you've got a teleconference in the study with the board members and 3 VC investors looking for an explanation of a recent dip in share value. You want to wrap up the meeting quickly, because you and your lovely wife are leaving on a chartered flight for a 5-day vacation in Italy to see her family.
Now, at exactly what f***ing point do you think Joe Billionaire is going to sit down and search Kazaa for the latest Madonna tripe? What in the hell makes you think he just doesn't hand his son a fistful of hundreds and ask him to pick up the CD the next time he's in town (along with a few for himself, of course)?
Although you paint a very pretty picture, there are several problems with your argument. Firstly, downloading music is the "in" thing now. It's rendy, it's cool, and people are doing it. Learning how to do it makes you savvy, or so CNN keeps telling me (despite their constant claims that mp3's are downloaded from the kazaa website).
Also, rich people seem to have plenty of time to get into trouble. Ask a Kennedy, Morton Downy Jr, Madonna, or even Winona Ryder. At the end of the day, people are people, no matter what tax bracket they belong to, and besides, rich people are used to getting their way. I wouldn't doubt that Jack Valenti would download songs if he knew how. Lars Ullrich admitted that even now he bootlegs tapes of music. So it is still possible they will sue Steve Ballmer for downloading Brittany Spears mp3's. Oh what fun it will be!:)
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No, it only takes $2K to get PRnewswire to carry your press release and all the automated services like yahoo will automagically list it for each company that you list in the press release. I'm sure they edit for inanity, insanity and impersonation. But ESR and co should have no problem getting a few releases out on PRnewswire and associating them with SCO if they wanted to.
Except for that bit about ponying up $2k. Unless ESR was smart and dumped that RedHat stock he got at the first opportunity. Remember, Free Software programmers that work for free are generally not very rich. Free. :)
without advocating any and all spam-fighting measures I should point out that your second solution is outside the role of the United States Government. If the US gov wants to put such filters and blocks on their own gateways then they are more than welcome too. However, as the US is not China the gateway routers are not owned by the government and can not be treated as such. Companies will have to clue in here.
The US is also not Afghanistan, where tribal law is the rule of the day and leads to anarchy like this. It is completely within the power of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce; check your constitution. They regulate the automobile highways, and currently regulate the information superhighway. If the USA can mandate the installation of carnivore at every ISP and the equipment to tap phone calls at every telco switch, they can sure as hell mandate something that actually helps the citizenry.
Letting companies go willy nilly has been the destruction of the internet and is what allows spam. Our backbone internet providers enter secret agreements with spammers and provide them havens. I say we need to outlaw this crap and this is the easiest way to deal with it. There is absolutely no constitutional argument against this, either.
That whole orbital guidance tech for China deal in the 90s made me sick. I would have found Clinton, Congress and the Corporation all guilty of treason if it were up to me
The problem is that both Bushes let Loral do these types of missions. So it is not all Clinton. Then again, Clinton holds the distinction of being found in the pay of the Chinese army, which in my opinion just goes over the line w/r/t campaign finance shenanighans. Then again, all three have had a very pro-Beijing policy, even though Clinton promised to be tougher on dictators (and China specifically) than Bush Sr. had been.
As for selling national security short, it goes even deeper than the danger of our secret being leaked and important projects being in danger from terrorist attacks. It is clear that our greatest military asset is our economy itself. The US economy is what helped us win WWII and produce the equipment our soldiers use. Any American working to undermine the US economy as many of these corporations are doing is a traitor, pure and simple, and many of them are well aware of this as they are doing it on purpose. The rest are just being greedy, but their greed is no less treason than the people who sold secrets to foreign powers for money.
No, the guy could be sitting outside on the curb and say to me as I come home "Hey, I notice you have X brand locks on your doors and windows. You know you can open those things in 3 seconds with a credit card, I can show you if you like".
Then I wouldnt have a problem, and would appreciate his advice - the difference is he RESPECTED my property.
The same guy waiting in my living room is going to be beaten within an inch of his life (self defense ya know - my word against his), then dragged off to jail by the cops. Then sued.
I suppose you have a point. In my state I coudl get away with shooting the guy, actually. Actually your example reminds me of the time the local police, in the course of a traffic stop, asked me
"Er, you don't have anything valuable in that truck box, do you?"
"No, officer, why?"
"Well, you probably don't want to unless you get better locks. The standard locks on that box are way too easy to pick."
"Thank you, officer I will keep that in mind."
Granted, if they had wanted in the truck box they could have gotten in there. Being police officers and all, they took it upon themselves to let me know of a deficit in my security. Come to think of it, there are IIRC community programs through local police departments to help you increase home security and/or awareness thereof. Too bad the same does not exist w/r/t computer security.
This is the way security is supposed to work. You buy system insurance. They inspect your systems before they agree to take the risc. If they find weaknesses you can't sue them and say that they caused huge damages. Just like the guy who pointed out that you can't blame the building inspector for causing the problems that he finds.
The problem here is that it shifts the blame. The CEO, etc do not get hurt by having to pay more for insurance. It is much like the debacle we have now with malpractice insurance, where doctors just raise the rates of health care to high heaven as the insurance companies raise theirs with no fix to the actual fucking problem since nothing happens to the doctors. Worse, good doctors pay for high insurance as well even if they do good work.
Hammurabi had the right idea when it came to malpractice. Thousands of years ago, in the oldest known code of laws, we had a solution for malpractice. It was a criminal offense. This makes the doctor pay attention and does not raise rates when you go to good doctors.
Here as well, the case could be made for criminal negligence when the management refuses to allow fixes to the system. Especially when the holes in one system cause problems through dos attacks and worms filling up the network, or spam.
Be that as it may. OTOH, does anybody honestly believe that this will not be used as yet another excuse for the Chinese authorities to suppress real, non-spam free speech?
Interestingly enough, many Chinese spammers do have a message we would consider a legitemate use of free speech in the USA. For instance, news about SARS and the recent breaking of dams and flooding was spread by spam. it was the only way they could get the news out in China since the normal news was blocking these stories. There are also spams about Falung Gong, the outlawed "cult."
The question is, is there another way they could do this without spamming? Perhaps freenet or something like that? But then how do you let people know what there is to find?
What about people who pay nothing for their Internet connection - they only have to look at banner ads to support the service? Does spam cost them anything? What if the Internet became free for everyone. Would the spammers then have a right to send their junk?
Spam costs them more than anyone, because they are on slow dialup connections. Yes they pay for their internet connection with their eyeballs on ads and their time is still wasted.
Not intended as a flame, but there are interesting gradations here. It could be argued that spam, like the person who shouts 'fire!' in the movie theatre, is actually a DoS attack
BUt in both cases, what is punished (or should in the case of spam as it is in the case of fire in the theatre) is the action, not the speech. In other words, it is not illegal to shout fire in the theatre. It is illegal to incite a riot with intent to cause harm to people. Likewise, it is not illegal to write an email talking about viagra and small penises. But it should be illegal to waste people's bandwidth and disk space and time without them having a say in the matter.
In like manner, it should not be illegal to say whatever you want on the air (though the fcc does make distinctions) but it is certainly illegal to jam someone elses transmissions in order to do so (which is more akin to what is happening here).
It is too bad the USA and Russia couldnot get a clue here, and China has to lead the way. The solution to ending spam has always been simple, but the US admins/govt keeps throwing up their hands. he way to do it is
1) make spamming in the USA completely illegal, worth jailtime in federal pound-me-in0the-ass prison.
2) make it mandatory for border routers to block all traffic to and from servers on a black hole list which any network which is the origin of spam automatically gets added to.
If ISPs find out that if they allw spammers to have accounts wth them their whole network will be blocked, they will give up the spammers to get back in business. This is the only way to deal with these terrorists.
Isn't a Coming Soon page pretty common for most new domains?
All Network solutions/Verisign domains get a page that shows an ad for Network Solutions services unless they have a website up. I don't know of any registrar that does not currently put up something instead of the content if a customer does not put up content.
DNS is set up so you can't get screwed even if your registrar goes under
Where did you get that idea? Network Solutions won in court when they said a registrar owns the domain name database it maintains. This means that, yes, if your registrar goes under, there is no knowing what will happen to your domain. It might be available for otehrs to buy, or the database might go to some creditor who then says they own all the domains in the db, who knows? That question has not been resolved to my satisfaction.
It seems that the Network Solutions answer is that they actually own your domain and are letting you use it out of the goodness of their heart (and for the fee) which explains the cases in which they sold a domain twice or gave someone's domain away to someone else without any good explanation, then responded with "oh well" as in the sex.com case and many others. Other registrars I cannot speak for, but with such a cowboy ruling as that the rgistrar owns domains, it's pretty much up to the registrar to treat you how they feel like with no recourse whatsoever.
Interesting thing that Saudi Arabia is proven to be one of the largest "breeding ground" (for lack of a better term) and source of funding for terrorism, which is targeted at the US.
But corporations like breeding grounds for terrorism. They are the best place for them to put their sensitive data. The biggest places to outsource our jobs: India, Pakistan, China, Eastern Europe. All big nests of al-qaeda with the exception of China which is just a military enemy bent on stealing as much of our technology as possible (can't blame them). I saw it as poetic justice when Loral went under in the dot-bomb after being singlehandedly responsible for giving away military secrets to China which will make it possible for them to kill us all with ICBMs, though it does not make it any better.
Now not only are the grunt jobs being outsourced, but entire data centers and the planning of these data centers are being outsourced to India et al. Just wait till these companies get a taste of what happens when you do that, when India and Pakistan go to war again or some terrorists blow up their facility. Then again the more likely scenario is that these terrorists will infiltrate and then steal technology and data, particularly that from the DoD projects these companies are involved in. Good job assholes.
Maybe if the executives involved were tried for treason (which they are committing by aiding the enemy) things would be different. But at minimum we need to do something to make it more attractive for companies to source projects here instead of elsewhere.
CEOs fall in the "thieving bastard" category. Also see: the reason we are having a recession.
I'd like to see just how poorly I rate (corrected for crappy South East Virginia wages, of course). Let me put it this way: I've seen the articles listing the average starting salary for a new college graduate; and, I want to know where I went wrong...
I think you answered your own question. If you want the good salary you have to move to a location where people actually get paid decent money. Be careful though, that you avoid places with high cost of living in your search. I found Texas is a sweet spot with decent pay and low cost of living. YMMV.
Do you want to come home to your house, turn on the lights only to find someone sitting on your sofa waiting to explain to you how insecure your house is because he was easily able to pick the locks? Even if he does no damage to your house and steals nothing is that something you'd like to come home to?
Actually, yes, if the guy offers to fix the problem. It would be wildly better than not fixing the security problems and coming home to find my TV, computers, stereo, etc gone and "J00 Sux0r!" spraypainted on my walls.
Perhaps if the FBI started going after network admins for doing such a crappy job we might start seeing less of these incidents.
In most cases, that would not solve the problem. Now if they were to go after the management who ordered holes in the security or refused to allow the admins to apply patches and implement good security practices, then you would be talking.
How about the part about avoiding radar detection. You know, the "stealth" part.
That would be good tech for my sports car :)
Well, after RTFA, it has everything to do with the SGI crap which has since been removed for being a kludge. This is the code snippet which we are aware of anyways.
Yes, but according to the submission someone else has already broken it down for us. Essentialy Perens was misquoted in a very deceitful manner (Darl decieve us? NO! :) ) Darl claims Bruce admitted the code was illegally copied. But Bruce had said it was legally copied under the license SCO provided for this code, and that the code was useless anyway and removed from the kernel.
Likewise, Darl is lying outright about ESR as usual. He claims that ESR has admitted that the DOS was from a Free Software developer. But ESR not only said that such a DOS would be wrong but on several occasions
I had to search really hard to find an article which even quoted ESR in a way that Darl could misquote the way he did. Darl was not nice enough to give a reference. Even so, it is clear form the article that despite Darls claims, ESR did not know the hacker and was only guessing by the nature of the attack that it was a Free Software developer who did it. He also had said from the beginning (in the above quotes) that DOSing SCO would be wrong and if it were happening it should stop. This is the source of Darl's quote that ESR asked the attacker to stop. Darl claims ESR knew hwo it was, admitted he knew who it was, and asked the person to stop but did not give him up to the authorities. THis is a complete fabrication as have been most of SCO's comments on Bruce Perens and ESR.
Would that be similar to Windows 2000's "Configuring Your Server" box that comes up upon first boot of Win2k Server?
No. Kickstart allows you to make an unattended installation disk which you can then use to install Redhat the same way on every machine. It is actually possible to do this with Windows if you learn how to edit unattend.txt....
Developers should know basic operating system principles and have some knowledge of how to use Unix(Unless the college they went to was brain-dead).
e.g. their cs department was funded by Microsoft.
I think this is a great move and may clear the way for Sun to be acquired by IBM or HP.
Oh hell, why don't SUN, HP, and IBM all merge and get it over with. Then they can move everything to Intel chips. After that, they can move everything to Microsoft Operating systems. You will be assimilated! :P
'm guessing you're not aware that the Onion is a real, serious publication, and only the first several pages are humor news. After you get past the first three pages or so, it's all real news (plus some good comics). Their interviews are among the best I've ever read, and their reviews of music are usually better than the typical "it's good, kinda like so-and-so". It's well worth the subscription price - I used to keep it on the back of the toilet, a mark of high regard for a newspaper indeed.
Well, I cannot speak for the print version (there is a print version?) but the Onion website is 100% malarky, though some people have been fooled into thinking its stories are real.
This is precisely why I refuse to buy ebooks. I will never buy content delivered in a format that has a time limit and has to be activated by an outside party. If that party decides to cut you off, or goes out of business, you are screwed out of your money. I laughed when Divx died because I knew it would happen eventually and all the early adopters would be screwed. Same for ebooks, unless you buy skylarov's software.
But about these parents; why did they allow this to happen? They should have known about the risks involved in trading music online, and lack of knowledge about the legal ramifications is no proper excuse. Even if a person fails to understand the laws in the area, that don't make them innocent.
From the article:
"I thought it was OK to download music because my mom paid a service fee for it. Out of all people, why did they pick me?" ... The family signed up for the Kazaa (search) music-swapping service three months ago, and paid a $29.99 service charge. ... "It's not like we were doing anything illegal," said Torres. "This is a 12-year-old girl, for crying out loud."
So the parents and child thought they were paying a fee for a service to access the music (or such is their claim) and thus were not breaking any laws. Although the slashdot crowd is pretty savvy about this issue and its legal nuances, the average person isn't, and the portrayal in the media has not helped. The impression people must be getting is that these services are legal and are being challenged in court. The web sites for kazaa and morpheus do not give any impression that what is being done is illegal (of course!), and the media tend to give the impression that software like kazaa and morpheus are music swapping services offered by companies from their websites.
This all leads to a situation in which the average person could easily be led to believe that by paying kazaa they are not breaking any laws. They do not understand, nor does anyone at any point in this transaction explain to them, that they are "pirating" music from other people.
I think you're missing the point. Imagine you're living in a 10,000 sq. ft. mansion with 2 butlers, a cook, and a 26 year old supermodel wife. You come home from the office around 8:00 PM driving your Porsche 911 Turbo, pull into your 8-car garage and park between the Beamer and the Caddy, then sit down to a nice meal. After supper, you've got a teleconference in the study with the board members and 3 VC investors looking for an explanation of a recent dip in share value. You want to wrap up the meeting quickly, because you and your lovely wife are leaving on a chartered flight for a 5-day vacation in Italy to see her family.
Now, at exactly what f***ing point do you think Joe Billionaire is going to sit down and search Kazaa for the latest Madonna tripe? What in the hell makes you think he just doesn't hand his son a fistful of hundreds and ask him to pick up the CD the next time he's in town (along with a few for himself, of course)?
Although you paint a very pretty picture, there are several problems with your argument. Firstly, downloading music is the "in" thing now. It's rendy, it's cool, and people are doing it. Learning how to do it makes you savvy, or so CNN keeps telling me (despite their constant claims that mp3's are downloaded from the kazaa website).
Also, rich people seem to have plenty of time to get into trouble. Ask a Kennedy, Morton Downy Jr, Madonna, or even Winona Ryder. At the end of the day, people are people, no matter what tax bracket they belong to, and besides, rich people are used to getting their way. I wouldn't doubt that Jack Valenti would download songs if he knew how. Lars Ullrich admitted that even now he bootlegs tapes of music. So it is still possible they will sue Steve Ballmer for downloading Brittany Spears mp3's. Oh what fun it will be! :)