The other aspect of it is that when you export farm products you are effectively exporting important components of the soil. The result is a reduction of arable land. In the long run, it's better not to export agricultural products, but of course that needs to be coupled with better waste management systems (pumping waste products into the ocean is idiotic, for instance, because they're pollution in the ocean, but fertiliser in a more appropriate location).
The problems the rovers have had have cut into thier research time - due to the dust build up on thier respective solar panels.
If dust build-up was a problem, surely a solution could have been found that didn't require nuclear power could be found. Off the top of my head I can think of several ways to design a system to remove the dust.
Getting a "your server is attracting the attention of our investigators" letter from a federal agency is probably enough...
I can picture their email box now:
His Excellency, Minister Okufla BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
Suzy Come see my naked webcam
Bill Gates Forward this message to receive $1000
Lotteries Administrator You're a winner
John Jones Credit Application Declined
FBI Your server is attracting the attention of our investigators
Yes sirree, they're going to be real sure to take that emailed warning seriously.
Driver compatibility is an issue for people converting to Linux for the first time using a machine that used to run Windows. After that, one of their questions when purchasing new equipment becomes "does it work under Linux"?
The effect of this is that as time goes on, more vendors will be supplying their hardware with Linux drivers - in fact it makes no sense not to, as the additional costs involved with porting the driver to Linux are tiny compared with the cost of being locked out of the Linux market.
couldn't the other group members have kicked them out?
Ironically, no. SCO have a proprietary interest in the group, and so cannot be kicked out unless the group has a constitution that provides for this. It doesn't really matter that SCO are doing their best to destroy the value of that interest.
On the other hand, there was nothing to stop them all quitting and starting a new organisation with the same goals.
we need some good, solid, well-written points in rebuttal to include in those letters.
I'm not sure we do. I'd moderate the thing "+5 Funny". The "legal" arguments made are ludicrous on their face. I particularly enjoyed they way they read Eldred v Ashcroft - it actually has the opposite implication for SCO to what SCO were trying to claim.
SCO tried to claim that Eldred v Ashcroft said the US Constitution actually required a profit motive, but in fact it says that Congress has the absolute discretion to decide what alterations to copyright law will "promote the... useful arts", thus giving what is known as plenary - or unrestricted - power to make copyright law without regard to purpose. It thus actually prevents any challenge that claims copyright law is not serving its constitutional purpose, or is being used in a way contrary to its constitutional purpose (this is different to the fair use cases, where the fair use provisions in the US Code are interpreted in the context of the constitution, rather than the constitutionality of the clauses being determined).
Otherwise, more of the US would be on the inside than on the outside
More of the US are on the inside rather than the outside. Well, near enough anyway. The US imprisons more of their population than any other country on Earth.
What I'd like is a one handed wireless "keyboard & mouse on a stick".
The stick would have, say, 5 buttons for the four fingers (two for the index finger), and probably three or four for the thumb. Characters would be selected by simultaneously pressing more than one button.
The mouse movement would be controlled by tilting the stick.
It's probably not a good idea to include the vibrating feedback system in it though.
tearing apart someones business plan is not the best pick-up approach
There's no real loss there, really. A marketing chick is like the high school slut - everybody's happy to poke her, but no self-respecting person would ever consider a long-term relationship.
We've purchased our SSL Certs from VeriSign for the last four years. We didn't recieve a single email from them EVER saying that our clients users (over 10,000 a day) might see this because of their cert expiring.
Neither did we. Then again, we block email from VeriSign to avoid their spam, so that's hardly surprising.
Because certs don't have to cost money, and the opensource community would be able to pull this off, wouldn't it?
The certificates issued by VeriSign are (in principle, assuming you can trust VeriSign, which you can't) based on validated identification using real-world documents. This is done manually, and requires time, hence staff, hence money.
Further, VeriSign has the advantage that their certificates are in Internet Explorer, which is still the dominant browser. In fact *only* VeriSign (and its turncoat subsidiary) offers ActiveX certificates with a trust-chain including a root that is in Internet Explorer. If it weren't for this advantage I'd have started a new "Thawte" myself.
You missed one: skill defecit - they have no effective choice but to remain where they are (ie. the person's skills are insufficient for them to find new employment quickly. If they weren't working in an IT job at an unethical company that can't get better employees, they'd be working as a parking station attendant).
...I must tell you that the list of files has everyone I am hearing from falling on the floor laughing. We will be issuing a statement explaining why as soon as they recover.
The brief reason why is that these are interface files. It has been established for over a decade that there is no breach of copyright when interface files have been copied, even if they have been literally ripped off (Computer Associates v Altai). Even I thought they'd come up with something better than this, and I've thought they were full of it from day one. That's why Groklaw are doubled over laughing - SCO have literally come up with the weakest possible argument they could have attempted.
In countries with WASPish legal systems, trademark laws only tend to protect against "similar" marks if they have the potential to create confusion. In continental Europe, they tend to protect where the newer mark attempts to capitalise on the goodwill of the earlier mark, even though there may be no prospect of confusion. Different underlying philosophies, different laws, different results.
Actually, there's plenty to say about Windows as a server platform. For file services and web serving, it's OK, but its resource architecture sucks for many types of large scale resource intensive server applications. There are limits there that you hit very quickly with some types of applications, some of which can't be worked around.
VAX? - Great box and OS...
You are clearly insane. VMS was a cruddy operating system. Windows NT, being largely derived from VMS, is similarly cruddy. Unix has a far better kernel interface.
HPUX? - Was a great box and ok OS...
As a server OS, HPUX sucked and continues to suck. In particular, the memory management architecture is appalling, and severely limits server scalability. This is something you wouldn't necessarily know unless you had coded large, memory intensive server apps on it.
For server applications, the commercial operating systems of choice are whatever Digital Unix is called this week (except that HP have killed the Alpha, which is a shame because architecturally it shits on anything else HP have), AIX and Solaris. For lower price environments use Linux.
This bill needs to be stopped...not just for the threat to the internet, but to basic research...
Not to mention that it is most likely unconstitutional, given that Feist was heavily influenced by the copyright & patent clause of the US Constitution. The Bill also lacks the fair use clause present in the Copyright provisions in the US Code.
Slashdot Mirror
The other aspect of it is that when you export farm products you are effectively exporting important components of the soil. The result is a reduction of arable land. In the long run, it's better not to export agricultural products, but of course that needs to be coupled with better waste management systems (pumping waste products into the ocean is idiotic, for instance, because they're pollution in the ocean, but fertiliser in a more appropriate location).
I once coded an IP (and UDP) stack in Fortran. Frightening.
Yeah, and I bet they know more about the culinary thermality qualities of viscous animal derivative liquids than anybody else in the place.
One PhD is bad enough for commercial job prospects, but multiples pretty much eliminates you as even a remote possibility in most places.
If dust build-up was a problem, surely a solution could have been found that didn't require nuclear power could be found. Off the top of my head I can think of several ways to design a system to remove the dust.
I can picture their email box now:
His Excellency, Minister Okufla BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
Suzy Come see my naked webcam
Bill Gates Forward this message to receive $1000
Lotteries Administrator You're a winner
John Jones Credit Application Declined
FBI Your server is attracting the attention of our investigators
Yes sirree, they're going to be real sure to take that emailed warning seriously.
With the 2.4 kernel I couldn't get the NVIDIA driver to work if the kernel was himem enabled - will this work with the 2.6 kernel?
The effect of this is that as time goes on, more vendors will be supplying their hardware with Linux drivers - in fact it makes no sense not to, as the additional costs involved with porting the driver to Linux are tiny compared with the cost of being locked out of the Linux market.
Ironically, no. SCO have a proprietary interest in the group, and so cannot be kicked out unless the group has a constitution that provides for this. It doesn't really matter that SCO are doing their best to destroy the value of that interest.
On the other hand, there was nothing to stop them all quitting and starting a new organisation with the same goals.
I'm not sure we do. I'd moderate the thing "+5 Funny". The "legal" arguments made are ludicrous on their face. I particularly enjoyed they way they read Eldred v Ashcroft - it actually has the opposite implication for SCO to what SCO were trying to claim.
SCO tried to claim that Eldred v Ashcroft said the US Constitution actually required a profit motive, but in fact it says that Congress has the absolute discretion to decide what alterations to copyright law will "promote the ... useful arts", thus giving what is known as plenary - or unrestricted - power to make copyright law without regard to purpose. It thus actually prevents any challenge that claims copyright law is not serving its constitutional purpose, or is being used in a way contrary to its constitutional purpose (this is different to the fair use cases, where the fair use provisions in the US Code are interpreted in the context of the constitution, rather than the constitutionality of the clauses being determined).
Darl is clearly delusional.
More of the US are on the inside rather than the outside. Well, near enough anyway. The US imprisons more of their population than any other country on Earth.
Land of the free, home of the self-deluded.
We have a SS2 with 32MB of RAM that still runs our production mail server.
The mouse movement would be controlled by tilting the stick.
It's probably not a good idea to include the vibrating feedback system in it though.
You obviously didn't read the same article the rest of us did.
There's no real loss there, really. A marketing chick is like the high school slut - everybody's happy to poke her, but no self-respecting person would ever consider a long-term relationship.
MailBank (Now NetIdentity) has been doing exactly this since 1996. I don't see these cretins getting very far.
Neither did we. Then again, we block email from VeriSign to avoid their spam, so that's hardly surprising.
The certificates issued by VeriSign are (in principle, assuming you can trust VeriSign, which you can't) based on validated identification using real-world documents. This is done manually, and requires time, hence staff, hence money.
Further, VeriSign has the advantage that their certificates are in Internet Explorer, which is still the dominant browser. In fact *only* VeriSign (and its turncoat subsidiary) offers ActiveX certificates with a trust-chain including a root that is in Internet Explorer. If it weren't for this advantage I'd have started a new "Thawte" myself.
It's a shame they have never been able to do either one of these then isn't it?
You still trust VeriSign? Where the hell have you been for the past five years?
You missed one: skill defecit - they have no effective choice but to remain where they are (ie. the person's skills are insufficient for them to find new employment quickly. If they weren't working in an IT job at an unethical company that can't get better employees, they'd be working as a parking station attendant).
The brief reason why is that these are interface files. It has been established for over a decade that there is no breach of copyright when interface files have been copied, even if they have been literally ripped off (Computer Associates v Altai). Even I thought they'd come up with something better than this, and I've thought they were full of it from day one. That's why Groklaw are doubled over laughing - SCO have literally come up with the weakest possible argument they could have attempted.
Actually, I can think of a very good reason why a spammer might be heavily into religion - these scum require forgiveness by the truckload.
In countries with WASPish legal systems, trademark laws only tend to protect against "similar" marks if they have the potential to create confusion. In continental Europe, they tend to protect where the newer mark attempts to capitalise on the goodwill of the earlier mark, even though there may be no prospect of confusion. Different underlying philosophies, different laws, different results.
Actually, there's plenty to say about Windows as a server platform. For file services and web serving, it's OK, but its resource architecture sucks for many types of large scale resource intensive server applications. There are limits there that you hit very quickly with some types of applications, some of which can't be worked around.
VAX? - Great box and OS...
You are clearly insane. VMS was a cruddy operating system. Windows NT, being largely derived from VMS, is similarly cruddy. Unix has a far better kernel interface.
HPUX? - Was a great box and ok OS...
As a server OS, HPUX sucked and continues to suck. In particular, the memory management architecture is appalling, and severely limits server scalability. This is something you wouldn't necessarily know unless you had coded large, memory intensive server apps on it.
For server applications, the commercial operating systems of choice are whatever Digital Unix is called this week (except that HP have killed the Alpha, which is a shame because architecturally it shits on anything else HP have), AIX and Solaris. For lower price environments use Linux.
Not to mention that it is most likely unconstitutional, given that Feist was heavily influenced by the copyright & patent clause of the US Constitution. The Bill also lacks the fair use clause present in the Copyright provisions in the US Code.