Those of you who are concerned that SCO might just take some basic code and claim that the Linux kernel contains a copy of it should realize that this cuts both ways: by the same argument, Linux advocates can also point out code that existed in the kernel before 1994 and appeared in a similar form in SCO's codebase.
Also, if SCO is giving out 95% of its revenues (from the code) to Novell, it is highly unlikely that they are licensing out any of their own code.
Suppose both don't agree: then what? Which one do you rely on? If you are an airliner on landing approach, it's not like you can stop in mid-air and ask for directions, you know.
Anyone interested in getting more info (as well as monthly statistics about the actual cellphone users (excluding the CDMA ones)) can visi the site of Cellular Operators Association of India.
Why blame Unix? As long as you have the ability to open a telnet to the outside world (port 25, to be more precise), you can do it from any connected machine.
Heck, I remember telnetting to the victims' MX servers and typing in the message by hand. It wasn't too difficult.
What is a "scraping robot"? A program that downloads data from a website without human intervention? (It sure as hell isn't a robot that primes a surface for painting, it would seem). My point is: modern browsers (like Mozilla) will pre-fetch pages from a site, even though you may not actually view them (and instead head off somewhere else). What about a caching proxy?
The question is, where do you draw the line? The data already is being accessed in an "automated" fashion (by the browser).
Plus, who will speak up for the rights of robots? Who are we to deny access to all this goody-goody data to robots? What if a robot really wanted to travel ?
Sure, but the whole point of AI was that we were supposed to be able to ask it where it thought it was going...
So is that why Bill asks us, "where do you want to go today?" ? Does he think we are some kind of AI?
Something to ponder...
Re:One word: Sumitomo
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IIRC there was a fire at the Sumitomo plant. Just like the stock market (anyone remember the late 90s? I thought so), there's a lot of speculation that goes on in this market. When people heard of the fire, they started hoarding chips, anticipating a shortfall later; this lead to some appearance of shortage and hence higher prices; which led to more hoarding; which led to more shortage; and so on.
#136 Explain string theory using only sock puppets. [19 points]
For some of my (former) TAs, this would be 19 easy points.
Wait.. they said "The Judge must understand. ". Oops, never mind.
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I agree with you in principle, but it could be that they are asking for a piece of Columbia that need not necessarily be debris; it could be a piece that NASA had given out in the past. Obviously, a debris piece would not be allowed by NASA to be taken away (hence the "NASA verification" rider).
I don't know about you guys, but I just got this from my buddy Steve Ballmer today:
From SteveBallmer@ceo.microsoft.com Thu May 08 01:26:33 2003 Return-Path: <SteveBallmer@ceo.microsoft.com> Delivered-To: unknown@somewhere.com Received: (qmail 8935 invoked from network); 8 May 2003 01:26:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO delivery.pens.microsoft.com) (207.46.248.68) by xxxxxxxxxxxx with SMTP; 8 May 2003 01:26:12 -0000 Received: from TK2MSFTDDSQ04 ([10.40.1.68]) by delivery.pens.microsoft.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Wed, 7 May 2003 18:21:11 -0700 Reply-To: "Steve Ballmer" <GUID-DELETED-@ceo.microsoft.com> From: "Steve Ballmer" <SteveBallmer@ceo.microsoft.com> To: <unknown@somewhere.com> Subject: Rights Management: Enabling New Opportunities for Customers Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:24:10 -0700 Message-ID: <37337373373733737337xxxx@phx.gbl> MIME-Versio n: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 ontent-Class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Return-Path: SteveBallmer@ceo.microsoft.com X-OriginalArrivalT ime: 08 May 2003 01:20:07.0109 (UTC) FILETIME=[DEADBEEF:3MTA3] Status: RO Content-Length: 11377 Lines: 206
May 7, 2003
I'm writing to you today about a set of emerging technologies that hold great promise for enhancing privacy and enabling important new uses for computers and other digital devices. Before I share my thoughts about this in more detail, I want to explain why you're receiving this email.
So, in case you guys need to contact Steve, you have his email address now!
From the press release: Nominations should include a short paragraph justifying the case and can include videotapes and other material. They should be sent to James Morris at Carnegie Mellon -- James.morris@cmu.edu. The jury will select the inductees by October 1, 2003, and announce the results at a suitable ceremony by November 30 of this year.
Quick, everybody! Put your favorite Bender scenes on a tape and send them over to Jim above. Lets all vote for Bender!
Does this tie in with yesterday's slashdot story about Cisco supporting intercepting of VOIP calls? Given that story, what kind of <ahem> weaknesses will there be in these phones?
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Why do you think s/he posted anonymously?
What is your ZIP+4 code? I can tell you conclusively what it resolves to (I have access to the databases).
ZIP+4 does not resolve to a single house. It resolves to a block of houses, or in the case of apartments, a group of apartments.
Check the related USPS FAQ about ZIP+4 codes.
Also, if SCO is giving out 95% of its revenues (from the code) to Novell, it is highly unlikely that they are licensing out any of their own code.
As the person with the most in-depth knowledge of BitTorrent, what do you see are the weaknesses of the BitTorrent model?
Just something to think about.
Why blame Unix? As long as you have the ability to open a telnet to the outside world (port 25, to be more precise), you can do it from any connected machine.
Heck, I remember telnetting to the victims' MX servers and typing in the message by hand. It wasn't too difficult.
How about a ".kids" domain for email, to which sending such 'explicit' spam is strictly FORBIDDEN?
The question is, where do you draw the line? The data already is being accessed in an "automated" fashion (by the browser).
Plus, who will speak up for the rights of robots? Who are we to deny access to all this goody-goody data to robots? What if a robot really wanted to travel ?
So is that why Bill asks us, "where do you want to go today?" ? Does he think we are some kind of AI?
Something to ponder...
Oh, I'd hazard a guess and say not as long as this did?
Hey, if *I* am taking the trouble to evesdrop, I want the full monty, dammit!!
For some of my (former) TAs, this would be 19 easy points.
Wait.. they said "The Judge must understand. ". Oops, never mind.
See, for example, this.
So, in case you guys need to contact Steve, you have his email address now!
Just because it uses radix sort it doesn't mean it isn't O(N log N). The radix itself is O(log N); you have to look at each entry at least once.
Remember, we're talking theoretical issues here (since you brought up the O(.) notation).
Nominations should include a short paragraph justifying the case and can include videotapes and other material. They should be sent to James Morris at Carnegie Mellon -- James.morris@cmu.edu. The jury will select the inductees by October 1, 2003, and announce the results at a suitable ceremony by November 30 of this year.
Quick, everybody! Put your favorite Bender scenes on a tape and send them over to Jim above. Lets all vote for Bender!
Looks like we just brought the house down...
badum-bum.. thank you! I'll be here all week.
What's the status on the Perl Apache modules, wrt Apache 2.0 ? Have you got them working too?
I recommend /mnt/fuji /mnt/barji
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One can only assume its her product... ?