A couple comments: first, the O.P. was right, in a fashion. The expensive parts ARE the molded plastics. They may have cost a total of 15 cents, but that's far more expensive than the solvent they hold.:-)
My other comment is the most expensive part of the printer is probably the advertising (although the legal fees with the whole DMCA thing will probably start to run up soon.) You gotta admit, the HP commercials featuring the dude with the picture frames is really, really cool the first time you see it.
However I do wonder when they police use them just to subdue a wildman
I can't think of a better use.
Policemen are not paid to die, nor are they paid to get mauled or beaten by idiots. If someone is acting dangerously and/or irrationally, and in their opinion needs to be stopped for the protection of themselves or others, exactly how are the police supposed to stop him? Get him to fill out a questionnaire regarding potential motives thereby establishing his mental state and suggesting a course of treatment? Sorry, it takes force. Any device that can minimize the risk to the cop (#1 priority) and reduce the risk to the civillians in the area (#2) and to the perp himself (#3) is a huge win.
The thing to keep in mind is that a cop doesn't usually have a lot of knowledge of what's going on inside the minds of these people. They walk into a situation where a guy is screaming and threatening people, and then have to make an immediate judgement. They don't have time to answer questions like did he just get fired, and is extremely distraught? Or does he have a mental illness? Or is he cranked up on dope, and completely unresponsive to logical questions? All three look like crazy people when you approach them. So, apply that to reality: look at the random nutcase shouting at people and waving their fists around on the sidewalk, and figure out how much time you really have to answer that question. While tasers might not be a one-size-fits-all solution, it's better than a bullet.
My cop buddies try to do the right thing every time, even though it's not always easy. They don't whip out the 9 mils as a first response; they first ask the guy to chill, try to get him talking and try to calm him down a bit. When the response is screamed epithets and the violent behavior doesn't change, it's quickly apparent that a different course of action is required. Tasers have the big advantage of mostly-non-lethality. Pulling out the service revolver might terrify some people into submission, but it also aggravates the guys actively trying to commit suicide-by-cop (and there are plenty of those.) Tasers have pretty much the same mental effect on people as guns -- they look wicked, and nobody really wants to get shot by one. If pulling it out doesn't stop the guy, pulling the trigger usually does.
(I wish one of my friends had actually used the taser earlier - a perp jumped him and knocked him down a flight of steps, breaking his back. My pal gets to spend the rest of his career driving a desk.)
Sure, someone's always going to have video of abuse cases. (When you learn what kind of shit cops really put up with to keep us all mostly safe, the only surprise is that all cops don't sink to that level.) And was this video of cops taking turns deliberately making a perp twitch (abuse), or was it just three cops simltaneously taking the guy down (accident)? Anyway, from what I know abuse is definitely the exception, not the rule.
Take your computer offline, reboot, set your BIOS date forwards four years, bring it back up in Windows and try printing again. If it comes up bitching, take the debugger to their printer drivers and sniff out any Win32 API calls to GetSystemDate(). Patch according to taste (hardwiring a return value of 1/1/2000 should make their carts happy that they haven't expired yet.)
I can't think of any legitimate reason for a printer driver to know the current date, so there doesn't appear to be an immediate reason why this wouldn't work.
Two things: first, I don't see that as a problem at all.
As a legislator, you should be properly afraid of going to prison for passing bad laws. Just because you're no longer holding office doesn't make you less accountable for your actions while in office. Sure, we won't have a trial for a dead guy, (legally we can't, he can't defend himself from the grave,) but it does mean you better be damn sure of the laws you do vote in favor of. If you're afraid that your law might be in violation of some twisted loophole in the constitution, don't vote for it. It's that simple.
A more moderate version might be to limit the scope of the three strikes proposal to the signer of the law. The President swears in his oath of office to "defend the Constitution of the United States." That's his A-number-1 job, his Prime Directive, to make sure the Constitution isn't violated by the rabble in Congress. If he signs an unconstitutional bill into law, then he's guilty of dereliction of duty at the very least. You can bet that nothing more controversial than "The Congress declares next Tuesday to be 'Oxygen is Good for You Day'" will get signed.
The other thing is that your example is of a state law. At the moment, I'd be happy even if it only happened at a Federal level.
With a legal setting such as this, I'd be surprised if Congress would pass an average of even one law per session. And that would be just fine with me. We already have enough bad laws on the books -- why allow them to continue to add more?
The government -- any government with satellites -- doesn't want you or anyone else to know the location of its secret satellites.
Please. NORAD has never released TLEs on the United States' classified satellites. The only data they ever provided was for locating weather, geosynchronous, communications, nav and other civilian / foreign birds, and other big junk like abandoned rocket boosters. There's not a sensitive bird on that list, and there never has been.
That's not what the article was about. The article was about two separate events: NASA terminating their mandated OIG support a few weeks early due to a hardware failure, (it's understandable even if it's violating the terms Congress laid down.) But more importantly, it's about them no longer providing unfettered access to absolutely, totally harmless data. What's the risk in letting anyone (terrorists included) know where the GPS satellites are? The weather satellites? Civilian commo birds? They're 60 miles straight up in space! I can't do anything to them and neither can anyone else. (Or, to rephrase, the only organizations capable of harming those satellites are already capable of tracking them.)
More specifically though, why do I have to sign up on a list to get this data? "You want freedom? Register yourself on this list of free people." WTF is up with that? I could almost understand it if they requested me to pay for the bandwidth I use, but this is simply tracking me for the purpose of tracking me. I want to know why.
Finally, the crack about "quietly" was in regards to this legislation being passed in 2003, and it took a NASA server failure two years later for me to find out about it.
Because the accurate data is no longer "freely" available. The NORAD numbers were always spot-on precise, while the amateur observers were merely close, and certainly not complete. NORAD used to publish thousands of elsets for tracked satellites.
Do you want to register yourself with space-track? Do you want it to be known that you are interested in satellite data? Do you want to be on that list?
This is the same freedom-of-speech argument, just in reverse. I'd like to be able to read what I want, without having to worry if I'm on a "list" for having done so.
Personally, I have downloaded satellite data for years and loaded it into my Palm. I have PocketSat+ and I use it to predict and identify the satellites we see when I'm outside with the Boy Scouts doing the Astronomy merit badge. Now, I have to "register with the government" for this info? And I'm also signing up to be responsible for keeping my copy secret from the likes of you.
What this means is that if Al-Kaida ducks out of sight just before the satellites come overhead, I don't know if my door will be among the first they knock on to ask: did you give them this info? Read up on Supreme Court decisions regarding the "chilling effect" of limits to free speech.
I've always wanted a "three strikes" law for legislators. If you vote in favor of three laws that are later overturned by the Supreme Court as being unconstitutional, you should be tried for treason.
There should be the severest consequences for the "criminal" legislation that the Congress emits. Putting fear into their hearts would be the best way to ensure they don't try taking rights away from the population.
Absolutely true. I have a Dell Precision dual Xeon 3.6 GHz at work and it's quieter than the background noise. Granted, it's a typical cube farm so there's always a constant level of (surprisingly high) background noise, but I can't tell audibly that the machine is on.
I will say, though, that it's wasn't an "inexpensive solution" by any measure.
So when the FBI publishes a report saying "Hackers wirelessly attack Lowe's Home Improvement stores", are you saying that Lowe's should pitch themselves as "the largest provider of free Wi-Fi network access in the United States, offering non-WEP-secured access points at 1,075 locations in 48 states"?
Not that I've dealt with them directly, but I've been forced to wait several hours for AT&T wireless people to fight with unfunctional screens, overloaded servers, and the poorest workflow I've ever seen in my life. It took TWO HOURS to buy three g*ddamn cell phones. TWO HOURS to click on a dozen screens or so. People were walking out of the store in disgust waiting for other people to get activated. It also took THREE HOURS on hold to resolve the issues related to the salesperson selecting the wrong package on the web screen anyway.
I found out later from a/.er that siebel was responsible for that piece of crap CRM system. (He worked in their call center and dealt with the exact same screens that the salespeople were forced to use.)
I complained, for whatever that's not worth. The experience left me so soured that I am completely done dealing with AT&T, and that disgust is carrying over to Cingular. The first chance I get to break this contract I'm heading over to T-Mobile like flies to sh!t. As far as I'm concerned, AT&T Wireless bet the company on siebel and lost.
BTW, if anyone here on/. works for siebel, please don't take personal offense just because I wish your company would be swallowed up by a giant cesspool and all the employees slowly drowned in the feces of the victims of your CRM system. It's just business.
Why wouldn't you switch away from Nokia? They've done nothing but design craptastic keyboards for the last three years. Like I want to dial on a Nike-swooosh or something.
I bought a SonyEriiccssoonn (I can never remember which letters are doubled, so I doubled them all) T-637 last year, and have been very happy with it. Sound quality is OK, but the Bluetooth support just rocks! As a matter of fact, I'm running off to go have a Bluetooth car handsfree kit installed for it right this minute.
I never consolidated -- I carry both a Palm and a cell phone, and have for the last 8 years.
I watched friends buy every combined device ever made, from the original Qualcomm brick-phone (thing weighed in around a pound) to various Kyoceras, Visorphones, and a couple of other hybrid things. One of my buddies went through three separate devices trying to find one that worked well. He's now back to a Verizon phone (with crippled bluetooth support) and a Palm Tungsten T3.
The problem is the form factor of an ideal PDA simply is not congruent to the form factor of an ideal phone. I never want to hold a giant Palm to my ear, nor do I ever want a tiny, oil-smeared screen in my hand. If my Palm usage was more occasional, then I'd consider a combined device, but I spend lots of time each day on both devices, so a compromise is uncomfortable.
If you look at it that way the question then becomes: which device to use for music? For me personally, it's neither because I don't want to carry around Yet Another Electronic Thing (namely headphones.) Since I don't have a public-transit commute, I have music in my vehicle and at my desk so it's not a big deal for me. If I had to pick, I suppose I'd pick my Tungsten T simply because it already supports MP3 playing. However, what I really don't need is another usage draining either device's battery -- I'm already about two or three days between charges, which is a lot more frequent than I want.
That was actually the biggest drawback I saw purchasing my Tungsten -- I hate built-in rechargeable batteries. They never have adequate power reserves.
Long, long ago, (back in the 1970s) the terminal frontends for the CDC Cyber 72 system I used to modem into would send the ^ character to indicate the following character was "unprintable" (ASCII values 0-31). For example when you hit C to interrupt a printout, it would actually remotely echo "^C" back to the user.
Lots of us were using Teletype machines at that time (CRTs were prohibitively expensive, so printing Teletypes were made available to the schools.) Since you can't really "erase" a black ink character from a yellow piece of paper, the next best thing was to indicate to the user that the previous characters shouldn't exist. The backspace character is ASCII value 8, and so the terminal controller would send us a "^H" to indicate the backspace was received.
Because the front ends still interpreted the control characters, they'd still do whatever commands were contained within them. If you hit XOFF/XON (<CTRL>S, <CTRL>Q) it would pause and resume the data. <CTRL>G would ring the bell. And if you transmitted a <CTRL>D, (EOT, the ASCII code for End-Of-Terminal-session command), it would hang up on the modem. I quickly discovered that great fun could be had by leaving PRINT CHR$(4) statements in my friends' programs. (Yes, that was me.)
Perhaps you should take the opportunity to help address the problem.
I'm trying to get into the habit of sending letters to sites complaining that they don't work with Firefox or Mozilla. I figure if more people take their business away because they have useless IE-only pages, they'll be forced to revisit these ill-considered decisions.
The same thing is even more true for those sites with popup messages: "This site only works with Internet Explorer." Fix your damn site -- don't blame me for your stupid decision to hire VB programmers.
Hell, even microsoft.com is perfectly usable with Mozilla and Firefox. I certainly haven't noticed a "lack of richness in my browsing experience" there.
Heh. We got a support call on a cash register once. "Hi, there's water coming out of my cash drawer." "Excuse me?!?" "Water. Coming out of the cash drawer." "Get away from it, and if the plug is dry, pull it out of the wall!!!"
Turns out it was a leaky pipe that had water following the drawer cable from the wall down to the till.
But that wasn't the best water experience: I was in my cube and heard a giant *>SPLASH<*!!! Went over to my supervisor's cube, where there was an inch of water on his floor, the PC and keyboard knocked off his desk, and water pouring out of the keyboard. Big messes of other junk just floating in the water with it all. I took a dry wooden broomhandle and whacked the power button on his powerstrip, then waited for him to come in to get the whole story.
Turns out there was a roof leak above his cube. He complained to the building people, and the maintenance guy balanced a teetering plastic wastebasket on top of the open light fixture over his cube. My supe asked him "how often do I have to empty it?" to which the guy replied, "don't bother, it'll probably evaporate faster than it will fill up." Apparently, that part wasn't true. And once the basket filled up enough, it got so heavy it swing the light fixture over far enough to tip the wastebasket off. Kind of like playing "Mousetrap".
I have been wondering why Kimball hasn't granted summary judgement against SCO months ago. I think your comments give a good insight as to why he hasn't. If SCO is given every chance to present evidence and fails, there's not an appellate court in the federal system that would touch this one. He's giving them all the rope they need to hang themselves good and dead, and they're taking every inch.
By allowing this case to proceed to a final conclusion he's making sure it will be SCO's final resting place; the coffin will be nailed, screwed, glued and welded shut. IBM's countersuit for expenses will be swift and merciless.
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Your iPod thinks it's a TiVo?
My other comment is the most expensive part of the printer is probably the advertising (although the legal fees with the whole DMCA thing will probably start to run up soon.) You gotta admit, the HP commercials featuring the dude with the picture frames is really, really cool the first time you see it.
You kids and your fancy-schmancy color graphics adapters. Pah!
What, a 386 isn't an x86 (#76)? Or a toughbook (#58)? Or a NEC ultralight (#27) or even a thinkpad (#19)?
I can't think of a better use.
Policemen are not paid to die, nor are they paid to get mauled or beaten by idiots. If someone is acting dangerously and/or irrationally, and in their opinion needs to be stopped for the protection of themselves or others, exactly how are the police supposed to stop him? Get him to fill out a questionnaire regarding potential motives thereby establishing his mental state and suggesting a course of treatment? Sorry, it takes force. Any device that can minimize the risk to the cop (#1 priority) and reduce the risk to the civillians in the area (#2) and to the perp himself (#3) is a huge win.
The thing to keep in mind is that a cop doesn't usually have a lot of knowledge of what's going on inside the minds of these people. They walk into a situation where a guy is screaming and threatening people, and then have to make an immediate judgement. They don't have time to answer questions like did he just get fired, and is extremely distraught? Or does he have a mental illness? Or is he cranked up on dope, and completely unresponsive to logical questions? All three look like crazy people when you approach them. So, apply that to reality: look at the random nutcase shouting at people and waving their fists around on the sidewalk, and figure out how much time you really have to answer that question. While tasers might not be a one-size-fits-all solution, it's better than a bullet.
My cop buddies try to do the right thing every time, even though it's not always easy. They don't whip out the 9 mils as a first response; they first ask the guy to chill, try to get him talking and try to calm him down a bit. When the response is screamed epithets and the violent behavior doesn't change, it's quickly apparent that a different course of action is required. Tasers have the big advantage of mostly-non-lethality. Pulling out the service revolver might terrify some people into submission, but it also aggravates the guys actively trying to commit suicide-by-cop (and there are plenty of those.) Tasers have pretty much the same mental effect on people as guns -- they look wicked, and nobody really wants to get shot by one. If pulling it out doesn't stop the guy, pulling the trigger usually does.
(I wish one of my friends had actually used the taser earlier - a perp jumped him and knocked him down a flight of steps, breaking his back. My pal gets to spend the rest of his career driving a desk.)
Sure, someone's always going to have video of abuse cases. (When you learn what kind of shit cops really put up with to keep us all mostly safe, the only surprise is that all cops don't sink to that level.) And was this video of cops taking turns deliberately making a perp twitch (abuse), or was it just three cops simltaneously taking the guy down (accident)? Anyway, from what I know abuse is definitely the exception, not the rule.
Take your computer offline, reboot, set your BIOS date forwards four years, bring it back up in Windows and try printing again. If it comes up bitching, take the debugger to their printer drivers and sniff out any Win32 API calls to GetSystemDate(). Patch according to taste (hardwiring a return value of 1/1/2000 should make their carts happy that they haven't expired yet.)
I can't think of any legitimate reason for a printer driver to know the current date, so there doesn't appear to be an immediate reason why this wouldn't work.
As a legislator, you should be properly afraid of going to prison for passing bad laws. Just because you're no longer holding office doesn't make you less accountable for your actions while in office. Sure, we won't have a trial for a dead guy, (legally we can't, he can't defend himself from the grave,) but it does mean you better be damn sure of the laws you do vote in favor of. If you're afraid that your law might be in violation of some twisted loophole in the constitution, don't vote for it. It's that simple.
A more moderate version might be to limit the scope of the three strikes proposal to the signer of the law. The President swears in his oath of office to "defend the Constitution of the United States." That's his A-number-1 job, his Prime Directive, to make sure the Constitution isn't violated by the rabble in Congress. If he signs an unconstitutional bill into law, then he's guilty of dereliction of duty at the very least. You can bet that nothing more controversial than "The Congress declares next Tuesday to be 'Oxygen is Good for You Day'" will get signed.
The other thing is that your example is of a state law. At the moment, I'd be happy even if it only happened at a Federal level.
With a legal setting such as this, I'd be surprised if Congress would pass an average of even one law per session. And that would be just fine with me. We already have enough bad laws on the books -- why allow them to continue to add more?
Please. NORAD has never released TLEs on the United States' classified satellites. The only data they ever provided was for locating weather, geosynchronous, communications, nav and other civilian / foreign birds, and other big junk like abandoned rocket boosters. There's not a sensitive bird on that list, and there never has been.
That's not what the article was about. The article was about two separate events: NASA terminating their mandated OIG support a few weeks early due to a hardware failure, (it's understandable even if it's violating the terms Congress laid down.) But more importantly, it's about them no longer providing unfettered access to absolutely, totally harmless data. What's the risk in letting anyone (terrorists included) know where the GPS satellites are? The weather satellites? Civilian commo birds? They're 60 miles straight up in space! I can't do anything to them and neither can anyone else. (Or, to rephrase, the only organizations capable of harming those satellites are already capable of tracking them.)
More specifically though, why do I have to sign up on a list to get this data? "You want freedom? Register yourself on this list of free people." WTF is up with that? I could almost understand it if they requested me to pay for the bandwidth I use, but this is simply tracking me for the purpose of tracking me. I want to know why.
Finally, the crack about "quietly" was in regards to this legislation being passed in 2003, and it took a NASA server failure two years later for me to find out about it.
Now, I'm a registered satellite observer, and will be as long as I remain a citizen in good standing.
Do you want to register yourself with space-track? Do you want it to be known that you are interested in satellite data? Do you want to be on that list?
This is the same freedom-of-speech argument, just in reverse. I'd like to be able to read what I want, without having to worry if I'm on a "list" for having done so.
Personally, I have downloaded satellite data for years and loaded it into my Palm. I have PocketSat+ and I use it to predict and identify the satellites we see when I'm outside with the Boy Scouts doing the Astronomy merit badge. Now, I have to "register with the government" for this info? And I'm also signing up to be responsible for keeping my copy secret from the likes of you.
What this means is that if Al-Kaida ducks out of sight just before the satellites come overhead, I don't know if my door will be among the first they knock on to ask: did you give them this info? Read up on Supreme Court decisions regarding the "chilling effect" of limits to free speech.
There should be the severest consequences for the "criminal" legislation that the Congress emits. Putting fear into their hearts would be the best way to ensure they don't try taking rights away from the population.
Sigh. I can't believe I'm defending a grammar NRZI, but the NRZI was right: it hurt's to rea'd some of thi's stuf'f.
I will say, though, that it's wasn't an "inexpensive solution" by any measure.
Of course, it's not going to do much for pr0n browsing, now, is it?
Just checking.
At yeast you gluten to this cereal pun chain. Many people avoid these crusty jokes.
Not that I've dealt with them directly, but I've been forced to wait several hours for AT&T wireless people to fight with unfunctional screens, overloaded servers, and the poorest workflow I've ever seen in my life. It took TWO HOURS to buy three g*ddamn cell phones. TWO HOURS to click on a dozen screens or so. People were walking out of the store in disgust waiting for other people to get activated. It also took THREE HOURS on hold to resolve the issues related to the salesperson selecting the wrong package on the web screen anyway.
I found out later from a /.er that siebel was responsible for that piece of crap CRM system. (He worked in their call center and dealt with the exact same screens that the salespeople were forced to use.)
I complained, for whatever that's not worth. The experience left me so soured that I am completely done dealing with AT&T, and that disgust is carrying over to Cingular. The first chance I get to break this contract I'm heading over to T-Mobile like flies to sh!t. As far as I'm concerned, AT&T Wireless bet the company on siebel and lost.
BTW, if anyone here on /. works for siebel, please don't take personal offense just because I wish your company would be swallowed up by a giant cesspool and all the employees slowly drowned in the feces of the victims of your CRM system. It's just business.
I bought a SonyEriiccssoonn (I can never remember which letters are doubled, so I doubled them all) T-637 last year, and have been very happy with it. Sound quality is OK, but the Bluetooth support just rocks! As a matter of fact, I'm running off to go have a Bluetooth car handsfree kit installed for it right this minute.
And nobody's put out a virus for it yet. Bonus!
I watched friends buy every combined device ever made, from the original Qualcomm brick-phone (thing weighed in around a pound) to various Kyoceras, Visorphones, and a couple of other hybrid things. One of my buddies went through three separate devices trying to find one that worked well. He's now back to a Verizon phone (with crippled bluetooth support) and a Palm Tungsten T3.
The problem is the form factor of an ideal PDA simply is not congruent to the form factor of an ideal phone. I never want to hold a giant Palm to my ear, nor do I ever want a tiny, oil-smeared screen in my hand. If my Palm usage was more occasional, then I'd consider a combined device, but I spend lots of time each day on both devices, so a compromise is uncomfortable.
If you look at it that way the question then becomes: which device to use for music? For me personally, it's neither because I don't want to carry around Yet Another Electronic Thing (namely headphones.) Since I don't have a public-transit commute, I have music in my vehicle and at my desk so it's not a big deal for me. If I had to pick, I suppose I'd pick my Tungsten T simply because it already supports MP3 playing. However, what I really don't need is another usage draining either device's battery -- I'm already about two or three days between charges, which is a lot more frequent than I want. That was actually the biggest drawback I saw purchasing my Tungsten -- I hate built-in rechargeable batteries. They never have adequate power reserves.
They'll probably be marketed as "Microsoft Reduced Ring-Tone Phones"
Lots of us were using Teletype machines at that time (CRTs were prohibitively expensive, so printing Teletypes were made available to the schools.) Since you can't really "erase" a black ink character from a yellow piece of paper, the next best thing was to indicate to the user that the previous characters shouldn't exist. The backspace character is ASCII value 8, and so the terminal controller would send us a "^H" to indicate the backspace was received.
Because the front ends still interpreted the control characters, they'd still do whatever commands were contained within them. If you hit XOFF/XON (<CTRL>S, <CTRL>Q) it would pause and resume the data. <CTRL>G would ring the bell. And if you transmitted a <CTRL>D, (EOT, the ASCII code for End-Of-Terminal-session command), it would hang up on the modem. I quickly discovered that great fun could be had by leaving PRINT CHR$(4) statements in my friends' programs. (Yes, that was me.)
I'm trying to get into the habit of sending letters to sites complaining that they don't work with Firefox or Mozilla. I figure if more people take their business away because they have useless IE-only pages, they'll be forced to revisit these ill-considered decisions.
The same thing is even more true for those sites with popup messages: "This site only works with Internet Explorer." Fix your damn site -- don't blame me for your stupid decision to hire VB programmers.
Hell, even microsoft.com is perfectly usable with Mozilla and Firefox. I certainly haven't noticed a "lack of richness in my browsing experience" there.
Come to think of it, it was before the computer stopped working. And it was also before I bought the new motherboard.
Turns out it was a leaky pipe that had water following the drawer cable from the wall down to the till.
But that wasn't the best water experience: I was in my cube and heard a giant *>SPLASH<*!!! Went over to my supervisor's cube, where there was an inch of water on his floor, the PC and keyboard knocked off his desk, and water pouring out of the keyboard. Big messes of other junk just floating in the water with it all. I took a dry wooden broomhandle and whacked the power button on his powerstrip, then waited for him to come in to get the whole story.
Turns out there was a roof leak above his cube. He complained to the building people, and the maintenance guy balanced a teetering plastic wastebasket on top of the open light fixture over his cube. My supe asked him "how often do I have to empty it?" to which the guy replied, "don't bother, it'll probably evaporate faster than it will fill up." Apparently, that part wasn't true. And once the basket filled up enough, it got so heavy it swing the light fixture over far enough to tip the wastebasket off. Kind of like playing "Mousetrap".
Oh well, he got a new PC out of the deal.
By allowing this case to proceed to a final conclusion he's making sure it will be SCO's final resting place; the coffin will be nailed, screwed, glued and welded shut. IBM's countersuit for expenses will be swift and merciless.