Nope. If you took the time to read the article, you would have seen that the poster has it right: The data were given to NASA, not to the NSA. Of course, the NSA probably already has all of that information...
"SCO® owns the contract rights to the UNIX® operating system. SCO has the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux® by any UNIX vendor." (Italics mine).
They go on to say that:
"Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights."
For those who won't take the time to read the Novell letter, Novell claims to hold all of the patents and copyrights for the Unix operating system, thus refuting SCO's claim to IP rights.
--
"Depth is to your life what dead air is to a talk show."
I was a victim of identity theft a several years ago and had my credit rating basically destroyed as a result (you would be astonished at how hard it is to get that stuff off your record, even when everyone agrees that you were ripped off). I found myself interviewing for a VP position at a rather large company and, after several meetings, the company extended me a pretty sweet offer. Among the conditions, they wanted to obtain a credit history. I knew that if I refused, they would simply move on to another candidate, figuring that I had something to hide. In the end, I went into the HR VP, explained my situation and asked for an opportunity to respond to anything they might find that would rule me out. I was astonished when the company agreed.
A few weeks later, I met with three reps of the company and brought all of the documentation I had. We spent two hours going over their concerns and at the end of the meeting, the HR VP said that she would get back to me. I figured I was history.
As I got into my car, my cell phone rang. It was the HR VP, calling to tell me that their original offer was still good. I must have sounded surprised, because she went on to explain that the other VPs in the meeting were very impressed with the way I handled this. She said most people just make a huge fuss and walk away.
I left that company after 6 good years to start my own firm. That same company is my biggest client!
Its probably not fair to characterize Sarah Flannery's work as having had, "no solid documentation." As this page at Cryptome points out, Sarah's work did not "revolutionize cryptography" because several mathematicians -- including Sarah herself -- identified a "definitive attack" on the technique described in her winning paper (which was an application of the Cayley-Purser algorithm). Her book remains a good read, especially for young women, and I don't think anyone believes that the math in her original paper is anything less than exceptional for a 15-year-old.
We just got back to the office after seeing a noon show in northern Virginia and had the same experience with the sound synchronization during Boromir's death scene and the 3-4 minutes after it. We all bitched at the theater and got refunds, but I wonder now if it was the theater's fault. Could it be a problem with specific prints of the film?
not to play one-up (one-down?) but i started my career developing c apps on an original ibm xt. 10mb of hard drive but enough room for dos, datalight c, light tools and (of course) brief.
that said, mea culpa for not proofing my entry more carefully. >-headbonz-<
i use a (new) ibook (500mhz g3, 128mb, 10gb, dvd model) running macosx. it cost $1499 but included an additional 256mb ram. my only complaints: no pcmcia slot (yada), no ir and "only" a 10mb disk. otherwise, it's zippy, light and quite sexy. further, i get apache, mysql, php, perl,... on a machine that also runs photoshop, illustrator, imovie, itunes, and ms office...even windows apps (not that i indulge)! no pc laptop comes close.
>-headbonz-
year by year
the monkey's mask
reveals the monkey.
- basho
ps: did i mention the builtin 10/100 ethernet, 56kbs modem, usb (x2)and firewire ports?
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$150/hour as a 1099 contractor and I bill about 50 hours/week to 4 different clients. I do mostly Java, but some LAMP stuff, too.
Nope. If you took the time to read the article, you would have seen that the poster has it right: The data were given to NASA, not to the NSA. Of course, the NSA probably already has all of that information...
From the bullet list below the screen shot:
Most things actually work!
The future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed. - Willaim Gibson
...given this SCO response to Novell's recent open letter. It says, and I quote,
"SCO® owns the contract rights to the UNIX® operating system. SCO has the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux® by any UNIX vendor." (Italics mine).
They go on to say that:
"Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights."
For those who won't take the time to read the Novell letter, Novell claims to hold all of the patents and copyrights for the Unix operating system, thus refuting SCO's claim to IP rights.
--
"Depth is to your life what dead air is to a talk show."
Thomas de Zengatita
I was a victim of identity theft a several years ago and had my credit rating basically destroyed as a result (you would be astonished at how hard it is to get that stuff off your record, even when everyone agrees that you were ripped off). I found myself interviewing for a VP position at a rather large company and, after several meetings, the company extended me a pretty sweet offer. Among the conditions, they wanted to obtain a credit history. I knew that if I refused, they would simply move on to another candidate, figuring that I had something to hide. In the end, I went into the HR VP, explained my situation and asked for an opportunity to respond to anything they might find that would rule me out. I was astonished when the company agreed.
A few weeks later, I met with three reps of the company and brought all of the documentation I had. We spent two hours going over their concerns and at the end of the meeting, the HR VP said that she would get back to me. I figured I was history.
As I got into my car, my cell phone rang. It was the HR VP, calling to tell me that their original offer was still good. I must have sounded surprised, because she went on to explain that the other VPs in the meeting were very impressed with the way I handled this. She said most people just make a huge fuss and walk away.
I left that company after 6 good years to start my own firm. That same company is my biggest client!
Its probably not fair to characterize Sarah Flannery's work as having had, "no solid documentation." As this page at Cryptome points out, Sarah's work did not "revolutionize cryptography" because several mathematicians -- including Sarah herself -- identified a "definitive attack" on the technique described in her winning paper (which was an application of the Cayley-Purser algorithm). Her book remains a good read, especially for young women, and I don't think anyone believes that the math in her original paper is anything less than exceptional for a 15-year-old.
We just got back to the office after seeing a noon show in northern Virginia and had the same experience with the sound synchronization during Boromir's death scene and the 3-4 minutes after it. We all bitched at the theater and got refunds, but I wonder now if it was the theater's fault. Could it be a problem with specific prints of the film?
>-headbonz-
not to play one-up (one-down?) but i started my career developing c apps on an original ibm xt. 10mb of hard drive but enough room for dos, datalight c, light tools and (of course) brief.
that said, mea culpa for not proofing my entry more carefully.
>-headbonz-<
i use a (new) ibook (500mhz g3, 128mb, 10gb, dvd model) running macosx. it cost $1499 but included an additional 256mb ram. my only complaints: no pcmcia slot (yada), no ir and "only" a 10mb disk. otherwise, it's zippy, light and quite sexy. further, i get apache, mysql, php, perl, ... on a machine that also runs photoshop, illustrator, imovie, itunes, and ms office...even windows apps (not that i indulge)! no pc laptop comes close.
>-headbonz-
year by year
the monkey's mask
reveals the monkey.
- basho
ps: did i mention the builtin 10/100 ethernet, 56kbs modem, usb (x2)and firewire ports?
actually, the book was _the mind's i_ and it was a collection of essays by dennett, hofstadter, lem and others with comments by d&h.