The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the Unix operating system.
What is it with the mass media not wanting to say that a given worm or trojan affects only systems running Microsoft Windows?
In fact, the statement is wildly inaccurate. It doesn't affect VAX computers running VMS. It doesn't affect computers running AmigaOS. It doesn't affect IBM AS/400s running OS/400. It doesn't affect computers running OS/2. It doesn't affect computers running BeOS. It doesn't affect computers running MS-DOS.
I mean, it's patently ridiculous, quite honestly. None of those OSes are Apple Macintoshes nor are they UNIX variants. Actually, for that matter neither is Linux, technically. It's an original from the ground up POSIX-compliant OS (unless you believe SCO;)
Sun buys SCO. Sun is now failing, IBM picks up Sun. Microsoft starts failing because Linux is kicking its ass. IBM buys Microsoft, and now the Old Evil Empire replaces the New Evil Empire, and everything starts all over again. Bill Gates rises to power at IBM and becomes chairperson. I, who have played the stock market well through all this, buy Bill Gates and become Ruler of the Known Universe.
On the other hand, it could be a case of marketing foot-in-mouth without clearing stuff with lawyers etc. *shrug*
Um, yeah, but... they *did*! Who donated the SMP motherboard Alan Cox used to write the initial SMP code in the Linux kernel? Oh, right. It was *SCO* (nee Caldera).
That's the problem with much of the scientific community -- too closed-minded.
You are the one sounding closed minded here, by scoffing about scientific theories you clearly don't understand.
No, I understand the theories, I simply disagree with them. Those who disagree with them are immediately scoffed at as being "non-scientific." My view is that the Universe is *infinite* and as such it is *infinitely "expanding"*. And if it is infinite, then it was *always* infinite, and was never finite.
A good, honest scientist will never purport anything to be fact beyond "When I did X, I observed Y". Note, this doesn't stop the media from attributing all sorts of "facts" to the scientist erroneously.
That's a rarer and rarer beast. And yes, the media is to be blamed for twisting scientific findings around.
My problem with the scientific community is that far too few of its members are the good, honest scientists that I described above, and far too many are administrators, or dishonest scientists more concerned with protecting their jobs and/or ego investments in their theories than keeping the body of understanding growing.
Science is not closed minded, but yes, too often the scientific community can be. We need more scientists in the scientific community.
What's observable? What's not? Who's to say that what is not observable doesn't have a direct influence on what is observable? Don't make me break out the metaphysics!;)
Although Sun has broader rights than do other Unix licensees such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, it doesn't have the right to release Unix source code or Sun modifications to it as open-source software, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said.
Yeah...but...*flashback to Linuxworld 2000*
But clearly we are going to add components back to the Linux kernel on both IA-32 and IA-64 platforms. We'll work with Linus and everyone in order to make that available.... so *you* did, and, apparently well, you *did*. Therefore, you should just shut up now. M'kay?
A CD-ROM never appeared as standard equipment on a IIgs. It was always just an option. Just like it was an option on any PC going back to 1986.
True, that's what I said. But not every PC had a CD-ROM as an option available from the manufacturer in 1986. Sure you could plop a SCSI board (which were *very* expensive in 1986) into a IBM PC and run a SCSI CD-ROM drive (which was also *very* expensive in 1986) but my point was that SCSI was *standard* on the IIgs, whereas on most (non-Apple) computers it was still an option.
Was it not purported as fact that the universe is x billion years old? That's what the article said.
That 'fact' is based on the big bang theory. As such, it cannot be a 'fact'.
If the Universe is *infinite* rather than *finite* then the whole big bang theory, and everything that hangs off of it, including the purported age of the universe, and for that matter, the purported age of this particular planet is entirely nonsensical.
Nobody ever said there was nothing to *make* a big bang.
Everything that exists is a part of the Universe. If the Universe was created in a Big Bang, then everything in the Universe wasn't here when that Big Bang occurred because it didn't exist yet. Right? So where did this Big Bang occur? And what caused it? Clearly NOT in the Universe.
According to Fig. 1A, the ten listings of virtues, values, and ideals are organized into dual descending columns of five groupings each; the left column representing the hierarchy of authority roles, whereas the right describes the corresponding follower roles. This dual style of schematic format represents the sum-totality of reciprocating interactions between the authority and follower figures, as the directional arrows serve to indicate. The distinctive groupings listed for each individual level are further represented in a quartet style of schematic format (depicted as quadrants in a Cartesian system). Some of the more traditional groupings (such as the cardinal virtues) are already represented as four-part listings, fitting quite nicely into such a quadrant-style of format. Others (such as the theological virtues) are supplemented beyond their traditional number in order to achieve this quartet-style of status.
Who's virtues? Who's values? Read the figure. Rather Western-society specific wouldn't you say?
Who's this guy to decide ethics and morality for everyone else? It is important to remember that ethics and morality are based on culture and social norms. Each culture has its own set of taboos, its own morality, and its own ethical codes. Codefing these is dubious at best, and applicable to only one culture or set of cultures at worst. Patenting these is just ridiculous beyond belief.
almost certainly formed in a low metallicity environment, that might be difficult in this case
'Almost certainly'? I love how astrophysists base their hypotheses on theories that are so far from being conclusively proven that it's ridiculous.
First off, how do we know that the Universe is 13 billion years (or whatever?) We don't. How do we know given that this planet is 1 billion years younger? We don't. More importantly, How do we know that the Universe has a finite existence? We don't.
If the Universe's existence *is* finite, what was there before the Universe? How did the Universe form? "Big bang"? And this happened how? Remember, there was no Universe, so there was nothing to make a big bang!
It's all predicated on silly little assumptions that are based on no credible, reliable information. Just assumptions on top of assumptions. And then purported to be 'fact'.
That's the problem with much of the scientific community -- too closed-minded.
I wonder how many civilizations have buzzed by in their spacecraft looked down at [SCO || Microsoft || **AA || GW Bush || CmdrTaco's house || insert your favorite here] and said: "Nah, no intelligent life down there, guys. Let's go on to the next one.":-P
The Ensoniq chip in the IIgs was the same one found in the Mirage music synthesizers from the period. It wasn't bad, and *did* support stereo in/out, it just wasn't provided by Apple.
Also, before you mock the IIgs for its floppy storage, remember that thing supported SCSI, so you could hook a *hard drive* and a *CD-ROM* drive to thing. Apple sold each of these as options. Not bad for 1986, considering CD-ROMs didn't start appearing as standard equipment in higher-end PCs until around 1990 or so.
And not to nitpick, but the early IIgs's came standard with 256K, and later they bumped that to 512K and 1 mb.
Don't forget that clicking the button on the end of the pen indicates your acceptance of these terms of use.
And your pen would surrepititously write information about what you wrote and send it to the manufacturer whenever you 'upgraded' the ink cartridge.
And you could only use paper compatible with your pen, of course. And the company would make sure that only *its* paper would work with its pen.
And some people would independently develop their own "open" pen and paper systems, where pens and papers would work interchangeably, only to be sued by SCO for violating the copyright on their pen design.
Ummm...did you actually *read* any of those works? They're The Cathedral and the Bazaar and Homesteading the Noosphere are *specifically* about the management/sociological models of open source. The Magic Cauldron deals with the *economics* models of open source. These are the classics that deal with the management, sociology and economics makeup of OSS.
If you haven't read them, by all means do so. All of the concepts you hear about 'scratching the itch' and 'organized chaos' here on Slashdot and on various OSS mailing lists, etc. are discussed in depth and in detail in those books. Despite what you might think of ESR and his politics, his books are *very* insightful.
There's nothing at all stopping these "broadcasters" from playing non-RIAA label music. There's no way the RIAA can prevent it. And this fact is irrelevant, because it's not the non-RIAA music these "indies" want. The RIAA is fighting to retain control of their own poduct - they cannot control product to which they have NOT paid for rights.
But under *their* terms. A major radio station in Detroit *does* play unsigned music. Despite *numerous* requests from their listeners to expand this playing of local bands, WRIF confines their local bands coverage to a show that airs only from 10-11 p.m. on Sunday nights exactly when no one is likely to even hear them. (Remember, this is a UAW town.;) Any one know what NBC did when it wanted to kill off the original Star Trek in the 1960s? That's right, they gave it a 10-11 p.m. slot on Sunday nights. Ratings plummeted. (This is part of the reason Roddenberry decided to take ST:TNG to syndication.)
When I asked a the program director at WRIF, he told me that it was due to their RIAA contract that they didn't expand their local bands coverage much beyond the 10-11 p.m. slot of Sunday. It's why they don't mix indie music with major labels.
But that's just what these smaller broadcasters want to do.
If indie music catches on, RIAA becomes irrelevant. It's the same reason they're suing filesharers, as I've said before.
These guys are *just* shy of violating RICO. RIAA isn't an association, it's a *cartel*. Only THEY get to decide what the public likes and listens to. If you don't like it, don't listen they tell you.
If you don't believe me, e-mail Podell. He'll tell you what he told me IRL. (Well, I'd assume anyway)
You've apparently never worked in a large enterprise, working on a project where business requirements truly drove the design.
I have. We had our choice of programmers that were skilled in any number of languages and platforms. The languages chosen were based on requirements more than anything else, because we could. The design team and the programmers were too separate groups -- the design team included business domain experts and technical analysts and managers like myself who bridged the gap between the business domain experts and the programming staff(s). A lot of our code was outsourced to a contract company and they could get us whatever we wanted. And we did.:)
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The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the Unix operating system.
;)
What is it with the mass media not wanting to say that a given worm or trojan affects only systems running Microsoft Windows?
In fact, the statement is wildly inaccurate. It doesn't affect VAX computers running VMS. It doesn't affect computers running AmigaOS. It doesn't affect IBM AS/400s running OS/400. It doesn't affect computers running OS/2. It doesn't affect computers running BeOS. It doesn't affect computers running MS-DOS.
I mean, it's patently ridiculous, quite honestly. None of those OSes are Apple Macintoshes nor are they UNIX variants. Actually, for that matter neither is Linux, technically. It's an original from the ground up POSIX-compliant OS (unless you believe SCO
Some random guy says grillions of computers are infected with an undetectable virus and is going to distribute kiddie porn!!"
;)
Is that some sort of new grilled onion sandwich at Burger King?
If X has an effect on something observable, X is observable by inference.
Exactly.
crack-pot consiracy folks? nah.
:-P
bible thumper? nah.
metaphysicist. Yeah.
*sigh* Dream scenario:
;-)
Sun buys SCO. Sun is now failing, IBM picks up Sun. Microsoft starts failing because Linux is kicking its ass. IBM buys Microsoft, and now the Old Evil Empire replaces the New Evil Empire, and everything starts all over again. Bill Gates rises to power at IBM and becomes chairperson. I, who have played the stock market well through all this, buy Bill Gates and become Ruler of the Known Universe.
Muahahahahah!!!! My EVIL PLANS are SUCCEEDING!
(yes, there is the "other half" of a hyperbola that exists beyond the T=0 point, but that half is not contiguous with the first half.)
Hmmm...based on that theory, in that case, maybe a *mirror* Universe exists *beyond* T=0 point, in the "other half"? Interesting...
On the other hand, it could be a case of marketing foot-in-mouth without clearing stuff with lawyers etc. *shrug*
... they *did*! Who donated the SMP motherboard Alan Cox used to write the initial SMP code in the Linux kernel? Oh, right. It was *SCO* (nee Caldera).
Um, yeah, but
That's the problem with much of the scientific community -- too closed-minded.
You are the one sounding closed minded here, by scoffing about scientific theories you clearly don't understand.
No, I understand the theories, I simply disagree with them. Those who disagree with them are immediately scoffed at as being "non-scientific." My view is that the Universe is *infinite* and as such it is *infinitely "expanding"*. And if it is infinite, then it was *always* infinite, and was never finite.
A good, honest scientist will never purport anything to be fact beyond "When I did X, I observed Y". Note, this doesn't stop the media from attributing all sorts of "facts" to the scientist erroneously.
That's a rarer and rarer beast. And yes, the media is to be blamed for twisting scientific findings around.
My problem with the scientific community is that far too few of its members are the good, honest scientists that I described above, and far too many are administrators, or dishonest scientists more concerned with protecting their jobs and/or ego investments in their theories than keeping the body of understanding growing.
Science is not closed minded, but yes, too often the scientific community can be. We need more scientists in the scientific community.
Exactly.
What's observable? What's not? Who's to say that what is not observable doesn't have a direct influence on what is observable? Don't make me break out the metaphysics! ;)
Although Sun has broader rights than do other Unix licensees such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, it doesn't have the right to release Unix source code or Sun modifications to it as open-source software, SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said.
... so *you* did, and, apparently well, you *did*. Therefore, you should just shut up now. M'kay?
Yeah...but...*flashback to Linuxworld 2000*
But clearly we are going to add components back to the Linux kernel on both IA-32 and IA-64 platforms. We'll work with Linus and everyone in order to make that available.
Thank you.
A CD-ROM never appeared as standard equipment on a IIgs. It was always just an option. Just like it was an option on any PC going back to 1986.
True, that's what I said. But not every PC had a CD-ROM as an option available from the manufacturer in 1986. Sure you could plop a SCSI board (which were *very* expensive in 1986) into a IBM PC and run a SCSI CD-ROM drive (which was also *very* expensive in 1986) but my point was that SCSI was *standard* on the IIgs, whereas on most (non-Apple) computers it was still an option.
Okay, Doofus, where in my post did I use the word "good"? I didn't. So what you just said, made *no* sense whatsoever.
Was it not purported as fact that the universe is x billion years old? That's what the article said.
That 'fact' is based on the big bang theory. As such, it cannot be a 'fact'.
If the Universe is *infinite* rather than *finite* then the whole big bang theory, and everything that hangs off of it, including the purported age of the universe, and for that matter, the purported age of this particular planet is entirely nonsensical.
Nobody ever said there was nothing to *make* a big bang.
Everything that exists is a part of the Universe. If the Universe was created in a Big Bang, then everything in the Universe wasn't here when that Big Bang occurred because it didn't exist yet. Right? So where did this Big Bang occur? And what caused it? Clearly NOT in the Universe.
It's the whole chicken and the egg thing.
I hear that a balloon nearly that size was solely responsible for that hit band of the 1980s, "The Chipmunks."
You're right, of course. I was in too much of a hurry, though. ;)
Ummm...*you* didn't RTFA.
Look at this page, which is linked from the patent page.
According to Fig. 1A, the ten listings of virtues, values, and ideals are organized into dual descending columns of five groupings each; the left column representing the hierarchy of authority roles, whereas the right describes the corresponding follower roles. This dual style of schematic format represents the sum-totality of reciprocating interactions between the authority and follower figures, as the directional arrows serve to indicate. The distinctive groupings listed for each individual level are further represented in a quartet style of schematic format (depicted as quadrants in a Cartesian system). Some of the more traditional groupings (such as the cardinal virtues) are already represented as four-part listings, fitting quite nicely into such a quadrant-style of format. Others (such as the theological virtues) are supplemented beyond their traditional number in order to achieve this quartet-style of status.
Who's virtues? Who's values? Read the figure. Rather Western-society specific wouldn't you say?
Who's this guy to decide ethics and morality for everyone else? It is important to remember that ethics and morality are based on culture and social norms. Each culture has its own set of taboos, its own morality, and its own ethical codes. Codefing these is dubious at best, and applicable to only one culture or set of cultures at worst. Patenting these is just ridiculous beyond belief.
almost certainly formed in a low metallicity environment, that might be difficult in this case
'Almost certainly'? I love how astrophysists base their hypotheses on theories that are so far from being conclusively proven that it's ridiculous.
First off, how do we know that the Universe is 13 billion years (or whatever?) We don't. How do we know given that this planet is 1 billion years younger? We don't. More importantly, How do we know that the Universe has a finite existence? We don't.
If the Universe's existence *is* finite, what was there before the Universe? How did the Universe form? "Big bang"? And this happened how? Remember, there was no Universe, so there was nothing to make a big bang!
It's all predicated on silly little assumptions that are based on no credible, reliable information. Just assumptions on top of assumptions. And then purported to be 'fact'.
That's the problem with much of the scientific community -- too closed-minded.
I wonder how many civilizations have buzzed by in their spacecraft looked down at [SCO || Microsoft || **AA || GW Bush || CmdrTaco's house || insert your favorite here] and said: "Nah, no intelligent life down there, guys. Let's go on to the next one." :-P
The Ensoniq chip in the IIgs was the same one found in the Mirage music synthesizers from the period. It wasn't bad, and *did* support stereo in/out, it just wasn't provided by Apple.
Also, before you mock the IIgs for its floppy storage, remember that thing supported SCSI, so you could hook a *hard drive* and a *CD-ROM* drive to thing. Apple sold each of these as options. Not bad for 1986, considering CD-ROMs didn't start appearing as standard equipment in higher-end PCs until around 1990 or so.
And not to nitpick, but the early IIgs's came standard with 256K, and later they bumped that to 512K and 1 mb.
This sounds an awful lot like an urban legend to me. Can anyone confirm?
Don't forget that clicking the button on the end of the pen indicates your acceptance of these terms of use.
And your pen would surrepititously write information about what you wrote and send it to the manufacturer whenever you 'upgraded' the ink cartridge.
And you could only use paper compatible with your pen, of course. And the company would make sure that only *its* paper would work with its pen.
And some people would independently develop their own "open" pen and paper systems, where pens and papers would work interchangeably, only to be sued by SCO for violating the copyright on their pen design.
Ummm...did you actually *read* any of those works? They're The Cathedral and the Bazaar and Homesteading the Noosphere are *specifically* about the management/sociological models of open source. The Magic Cauldron deals with the *economics* models of open source. These are the classics that deal with the management, sociology and economics makeup of OSS.
If you haven't read them, by all means do so. All of the concepts you hear about 'scratching the itch' and 'organized chaos' here on Slashdot and on various OSS mailing lists, etc. are discussed in depth and in detail in those books. Despite what you might think of ESR and his politics, his books are *very* insightful.
There's nothing at all stopping these "broadcasters" from playing non-RIAA label music. There's no way the RIAA can prevent it. And this fact is irrelevant, because it's not the non-RIAA music these "indies" want. The RIAA is fighting to retain control of their own poduct - they cannot control product to which they have NOT paid for rights.
;) Any one know what NBC did when it wanted to kill off the original Star Trek in the 1960s? That's right, they gave it a 10-11 p.m. slot on Sunday nights. Ratings plummeted. (This is part of the reason Roddenberry decided to take ST:TNG to syndication.)
But under *their* terms. A major radio station in Detroit *does* play unsigned music. Despite *numerous* requests from their listeners to expand this playing of local bands, WRIF confines their local bands coverage to a show that airs only from 10-11 p.m. on Sunday nights exactly when no one is likely to even hear them. (Remember, this is a UAW town.
When I asked a
the program director at WRIF, he told me that it was due to their RIAA contract that they didn't expand their local bands coverage much beyond the 10-11 p.m. slot of Sunday. It's why they don't mix indie music with major labels.
But that's just what these smaller broadcasters want to do.
If indie music catches on, RIAA becomes irrelevant. It's the same reason they're suing filesharers, as I've said before.
These guys are *just* shy of violating RICO. RIAA isn't an association, it's a *cartel*. Only THEY get to decide what the public likes and listens to. If you don't like it, don't listen they tell you.
If you don't believe me, e-mail Podell. He'll tell you what he told me IRL. (Well, I'd assume anyway)
You've apparently never worked in a large enterprise, working on a project where business requirements truly drove the design.
:)
I have. We had our choice of programmers that were skilled in any number of languages and platforms. The languages chosen were based on requirements more than anything else, because we could. The design team and the programmers were too separate groups -- the design team included business domain experts and technical analysts and managers like myself who bridged the gap between the business domain experts and the programming staff(s). A lot of our code was outsourced to a contract company and they could get us whatever we wanted. And we did.