SCO Germany has to pay a 10'000-Euro fine. The basis for this decision of the court of the district of Munich is a preliminary injunction of the company Tarent and Linuxtag against SCO, according to which the company [SCO] may not state that Linux contains illegally aqcuired intellectual property of SCO. SCO is supposed to have violated this ruling on its homepage, and Tarent had requested a ruling against this in June.
According to a communication of Tarent Ltd. the court accuses SCO of "negligent actions" regarding its corporate homepate. It's supposed to have contained - even after the preliminary injuction - the claim that "endusers who use the software linux can be held responsible for violating intellectual property of SCO".
Tarent's lawyer Till Jaeger is of the opinion that the courts decision confirms that the behaviour of SCO is "massively economically damaging" which concern a "very sensible area". Business with fear on the back of third parties is made with unproven statements, continues Jaeger. Nobody could be reached for comment at SCO Germany; when a ruling had been requested at the beginning of June, Hans Bayer, CEO of SCO Germany, said: "It was our intention to conform to the preliminary injunction". The violation of the preliminary injunction had not been intentional.
That does in no way absolve _anybody_ (including you) to try _very hard_ to do something about it. Otherwise we might as well give in to environemntal pollution, exploitation of natural ressources, injustice done to variuos peoples and imperialism. Oh wait: we've already done that. Sorry, you're absolutely right. Let's sit back and do nothing.
IMHO the ministry is used for governing the use of nano-tech by human beings - after all, there are some potentially serious implications in deploying, or even developping nano tech (take Billy Joy's article, or, for that matter, Vonneguts Ice-9).
Now it doesn't really matter if those scenarios become reality anytime soon, but the mere thought of them becoming real convinces me that a governing body is needed, the sooner the better.
In some parts of the world UH is known as Universidad de Habana... (currently not reachable). But yes, you can expect a great deal from that one (given the scarce ressources).
Now, some of you young folks are too steeped in postmodernism to know anything about postmodernism, so let's review. Postmodernism in its most vicious form started out with the notion that there exist various cultural constructs, or texts, or memes, that allow some human beings to oppress other human beings. Of course, in Soviet Russia it's the other way around. Which is why they managed to deconstruct themselves, I guess.
If the driver fails to respond, the car brakes more and tightens the seat belt further to soften the blow of the crash.
The system should be expanded such that a driver who fails for, say, three times to brake when she should is not allowed to drive anymore. Or not allowed to accelarate to more than 25 mph. That should increase the drivers awareness instantly, shouldn't it ?
The first one is: use your imagination. When it says "Use the preview button" it acutally means "re-read your comment, and watch out for logical inconsistencies, spelling errors and ECHOLON-triggering expressions".:)
Why should he ? SCO goes on about code copying, whilst Hans makes the point of design copying - and that's what GNU's all about, and Linux is almost the same (remember, it started out as a Un*x for x86 ?)
To sum up the last few posts: Electronic Voting can't be trusted, NVidia can't be trusted, Microsoft Update can't be trusted... that's enough for one day. I'll go to sleep right now.
Sorry, didn't want to confuse anybody here. I simply think it's easier to blame a body of humans than a machine.
Plus there's another twist to it: the process of taking action (if you are so inclined). It's a lot more satisfactory to shoot the members of the Supreme Court than to punch a hole into a machine.
The vendor's point of view (unsurprisingly) is that "bugginess" is only a hypothetical threat, and that it in real-life situations no glitches will occur.
This is very clearly horseshit. Every IT-implementation has bugs. Repeat: Every. The question is: how many of them can we tolerate ? If it comes down to a word-processor, or a webserver, or even telecom infrastructure: we can afford quite some. If it comes to medical facilities, nuclear plants, or, as in this case, political decisions, the threshold has to be a lot lower. You wouldn't want George W. Bush to have been elected by a bug, would you ?
The (currently feasible safeguard) solution of the paper trail sounds like an excellent solution:
a) the voter can immediately control if her vote was cast correctly
b) the same rule applies as with financial and legal records (where a paper trail has to be conserved)
c) the "black box" problem that is mentioned in the article is circumvented: the citizen doesn't have to understand how the e-voting booth works, but (see a) can control if her intentions match the outcome.
Benchmarks are nothing else than statistics: In order to get to a (more or less) meaningful benchmark, you repeat the same process over and over, possibly in different environments. Then you analyze the results, resulting in a statistic of whatever you've benchmarked.
Therefore, the old Disraeli saying applies: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Or, to essentially say the same thing without expletives: Never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself.
A "thing" which is to be beamed has to be deassembled into it's parts (read: atoms), the parts have to be transmitted and reassembled at the destination. Now it is totally thinkable that instead of deassembling the original "thing" (read: human being), it is only scanned, only the information is transmitted, and a second, identical "thing" is assemled on the receiving end, thus creating, as Lem puts it, "the same me in Buenos Aires, with my house keys, who will eventually come back to Poland and claim my/his house... and he even has a point.
Now if they would only allow for political roaming too (tanks are not considered as such !), then Asia would not only be innovative, but it would suddenly become interesting too...
Strange, I've never come across "now or never", the minimum I've seen is 1 hour.
But you are of course right, this is a user-defined feature which is often overlooked.
The funny thing though is that phones & SMSC's don't necessarily agree on the validity period: the maximum I've seen on a phone is 4 weeks, whilst all operators I've worked with have a default validity period of 1 week max (one even had it set to 1 day).
Just as a sideline: Don't ever forget that delivery of short messages is never guaranteed. The situation's even worse if messages cross operator boundaries (i.e. get delivered to a user on a different network). This is the reason why critical systems (firefighters, hospitals, emergency crews etc.) don't use SMS.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't believe it, and this is a in the first minute after the story became available (to non-subscribers, okay...). Mirror anybody ?
SCO Germany has to pay a 10'000-Euro fine. The basis for this decision of the court of the district of Munich is a preliminary injunction of the company Tarent and Linuxtag against SCO, according to which the company [SCO] may not state that Linux contains illegally aqcuired intellectual property of SCO. SCO is supposed to have violated this ruling on its homepage, and Tarent had requested a ruling against this in June.
According to a communication of Tarent Ltd. the court accuses SCO of "negligent actions" regarding its corporate homepate. It's supposed to have contained - even after the preliminary injuction - the claim that "endusers who use the software linux can be held responsible for violating intellectual property of SCO".
Tarent's lawyer Till Jaeger is of the opinion that the courts decision confirms that the behaviour of SCO is "massively economically damaging" which concern a "very sensible area". Business with fear on the back of third parties is made with unproven statements, continues Jaeger. Nobody could be reached for comment at SCO Germany; when a ruling had been requested at the beginning of June, Hans Bayer, CEO of SCO Germany, said: "It was our intention to conform to the preliminary injunction". The violation of the preliminary injunction had not been intentional.
That does in no way absolve _anybody_ (including you) to try _very hard_ to do something about it. Otherwise we might as well give in to environemntal pollution, exploitation of natural ressources, injustice done to variuos peoples and imperialism. Oh wait: we've already done that. Sorry, you're absolutely right. Let's sit back and do nothing.
IMHO the ministry is used for governing the use of nano-tech by human beings - after all, there are some potentially serious implications in deploying, or even developping nano tech (take Billy Joy's article, or, for that matter, Vonneguts Ice-9).
Now it doesn't really matter if those scenarios become reality anytime soon, but the mere thought of them becoming real convinces me that a governing body is needed, the sooner the better.
Sorry, I left out the -tags :)
What Can You Expect From A University Named "UH?"
In some parts of the world UH is known as Universidad de Habana... (currently not reachable). But yes, you can expect a great deal from that one (given the scarce ressources).
Is Larry a slashdot regular ? :)
Now, some of you young folks are too steeped in postmodernism to know anything about postmodernism, so let's review. Postmodernism in its most vicious form started out with the notion that there exist various cultural constructs, or texts, or memes, that allow some human beings to oppress other human beings. Of course, in Soviet Russia it's the other way around. Which is why they managed to deconstruct themselves, I guess.
I'm still trying to figure out the first one.
That was my stance after having seen the original Star Wars Trilogy...
If the driver fails to respond, the car brakes more and tightens the seat belt further to soften the blow of the crash.
The system should be expanded such that a driver who fails for, say, three times to brake when she should is not allowed to drive anymore. Or not allowed to accelarate to more than 25 mph. That should increase the drivers awareness instantly, shouldn't it ?
Damned slashcode. Why can't I go fix it?
A hundred obvious reasons.
The first one is: use your imagination. When it says "Use the preview button" it acutally means "re-read your comment, and watch out for logical inconsistencies, spelling errors and ECHOLON-triggering expressions". :)
Why should he ? SCO goes on about code copying, whilst Hans makes the point of design copying - and that's what GNU's all about, and Linux is almost the same (remember, it started out as a Un*x for x86 ?)
Well, let's hope Fizzer is more advanced than Windows-Update.
I'll take it, but only with an extension module: I want to run my own webserver inside myself. Must be a chilling experience to personally get DoSed.
To sum up the last few posts: Electronic Voting can't be trusted, NVidia can't be trusted, Microsoft Update can't be trusted... that's enough for one day. I'll go to sleep right now.
Sorry, didn't want to confuse anybody here. I simply think it's easier to blame a body of humans than a machine.
Plus there's another twist to it: the process of taking action (if you are so inclined). It's a lot more satisfactory to shoot the members of the Supreme Court than to punch a hole into a machine.
The two main points in electronic voting are:
The vendor's point of view (unsurprisingly) is that "bugginess" is only a hypothetical threat, and that it in real-life situations no glitches will occur.
This is very clearly horseshit. Every IT-implementation has bugs. Repeat: Every. The question is: how many of them can we tolerate ? If it comes down to a word-processor, or a webserver, or even telecom infrastructure: we can afford quite some. If it comes to medical facilities, nuclear plants, or, as in this case, political decisions, the threshold has to be a lot lower. You wouldn't want George W. Bush to have been elected by a bug, would you ?
The (currently feasible safeguard) solution of the paper trail sounds like an excellent solution:
a) the voter can immediately control if her vote was cast correctly
b) the same rule applies as with financial and legal records (where a paper trail has to be conserved)
c) the "black box" problem that is mentioned in the article is circumvented: the citizen doesn't have to understand how the e-voting booth works, but (see a) can control if her intentions match the outcome.
Benchmarks are nothing else than statistics: In order to get to a (more or less) meaningful benchmark, you repeat the same process over and over, possibly in different environments. Then you analyze the results, resulting in a statistic of whatever you've benchmarked.
Therefore, the old Disraeli saying applies: "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Or, to essentially say the same thing without expletives: Never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself.
As long as the name doesn't change it's A-OK: immagine the dollar being called the "Amerio"...
Like Stansilaw Lem pointed out in Summa Technologiae, "beaming" (ie. teletransportation) creates an enormous dilemma:
A "thing" which is to be beamed has to be deassembled into it's parts (read: atoms), the parts have to be transmitted and reassembled at the destination. Now it is totally thinkable that instead of deassembling the original "thing" (read: human being), it is only scanned, only the information is transmitted, and a second, identical "thing" is assemled on the receiving end, thus creating, as Lem puts it, "the same me in Buenos Aires, with my house keys, who will eventually come back to Poland and claim my/his house... and he even has a point.
The entire problematic goes away if "Desktop" is redefined as "command line". Granted, you can still fsck up that one, but it's a bit more difficult.
Those states should be get subsidies for fighting overpopulation.
Well, if this can happen, Australia could also bump into Asia, couldn't it ?
I think you wanted to say I-Mode :)
Now if they would only allow for political roaming too (tanks are not considered as such !), then Asia would not only be innovative, but it would suddenly become interesting too...
Strange, I've never come across "now or never", the minimum I've seen is 1 hour.
But you are of course right, this is a user-defined feature which is often overlooked.
The funny thing though is that phones & SMSC's don't necessarily agree on the validity period: the maximum I've seen on a phone is 4 weeks, whilst all operators I've worked with have a default validity period of 1 week max (one even had it set to 1 day).
Just as a sideline: Don't ever forget that delivery of short messages is never guaranteed. The situation's even worse if messages cross operator boundaries (i.e. get delivered to a user on a different network). This is the reason why critical systems (firefighters, hospitals, emergency crews etc.) don't use SMS.