Re:Some of the testimonials are very old
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SCOoby Snacks
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If you look at their last annual report, not many. Their UNIX revenue has been declining for the last four years, and the deferred income from long-term contracts got cut in half from 2002-2003. I guess they're getting little new business and current contracts are expiring or being canceled.
And as opposed to the public statements we've heard, the report states that Novell and others indemnifying Linux users is a risk to their business.
One MS ad telling you Linux TCO is higher than Windows and one from ZoneAlarm reminding you of all the security vulnerabilities you're going to have to guard against.
the system allows users to add software patches -- such as a glitch fix or upgrade -- without interruption while a mission is in flight. "We've always had that [feature] so you don't have to shut down, reload and restart after every patch,"
All you needed to read was that to know they weren't using Windows.
We can't solve their problems, they need to solve their problems. After all, they are their problems. Such hubris to think that we can fix everything.
At a recent Arab summit, leaders flat out said that the Arabs need more freedom of the press, freedom in general, open government, government that doesn't squander the nation's wealth through corruption, and job opportunity. In a nutshell, they said they need to realize that their problems are of their own making, from within their own societies. The West is simply a high-profile scapegoat and people like you believe them.
Therefore, while these laws run directly against our most cherished values, they are the only defence against the threat.
For that reason, there is no real defence. It's a no-win situation. If we continue to play by these rules, we've already lost.
The The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 already gave the FBI the power to investigate suspected terrorists and spies, and to aid them even set up a special secret court system with rubber-stamp sealed warrants with no opportunity for challenge. The PATRIOT Act didn't do anything but erode our rights.
Step 4: sign a final deal, compensating the Palestinians for their loss.
That's pretty simplistic. Even if that problem were entirely our fault, and we set up all Palestinians with their own country and lots of free stuff, they'd still hate us because, well, we're us. Osama started against us claiming we needed to get our troops out of the holy land of Saudi Arabia, and now we're out and I haven't heard anything about a cease fire.
Re:Can't we just buy SCO and sack McBride?
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No, because that's what he wants. He used the suits to pump up his failed company for a buyout. The contract with the lawyers even says they get a cut in case of a buyout, so you know they were planning for it.
If we're talking about IT, I ended up doing some of it during the gulf war (if you're the guy who can do it and you're there at the time, then you do it). It's hard to concentrate on what you're doing when artillery is falling.
So, in effect you're saying that Microsoft can steal all the GPL code it wants and put it in Windows, because nobody can prove that they did it without access to Windows source? Seems like there needs to be a middle ground here of reasonable requirements.
If you find evidence of your source code, such as exact functionality or a specific network signature, bring a suit and ask for that one specific piece of code during discovery. Not "somewhere in the network architecture" like SCO would, but specific like in "X functionality in service Y that produces the network traffic pattern Z..." I believe something like this was news here on/. recently.
I have lots of German and American DVDs and was about to buy a multizone DVD player so I can stop using my computer to play the German ones, but I'll wait until I find out whether this one will be restricted or can be modded.
They'll get in trouble if they do release the claimed source code to the public, that's for sure. However, couldn't they release file names and line numbers in CVS?
Many people, Americans and other, call foul on the issue w/Iraq using the slogan "but you supported him/it 20 years ago!".
To put it in simpler terms, it's like people getting mad at President Johnson's Cold War policies towards the USSR, saying "But you supported Stalin 20 years ago."
Any IP lawyer should know that you can't copyright a list of facts. Making such a claim in light of such basic IP law should fall under the category of "knowingly misrepresents." Still tough to prove, but would make for great precedent.
They could have rightfully sued under trade secrets, but the DMCA is everybody's favorite hammer these days.
What money? I'd say wait for Best Buy to drop their claim like Wal-Mart did, essentially admitting they had no case about the information being copyrighted (Supreme Court precedent is clearly against them in the telephone book case), and let their lawyer go after Best Buy on a contingency fee basis.
`(f) MISREPRESENTATIONS- Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section--
`(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
`(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
Linda Lamone, director of the state elections board, largely dismissed Rubin's concerns and insisted Diebold had completed all the recommended changes in its software.
and
Russell Doupnick, the state's deputy chief information officer, rejected Rubin's call for full disclosure of the SAIC report. He said officials did not want to provide "a road map to intrude into the system."
If Diebold has made fixed all of the vulnerabilities, then how is a report of the vulnerabilities going to tell people how to exploit them? Any system should be able to maintain high security with full disclosure of all code and APIs. If not, they're relying on security through obscurity, and we all know that works pretty well until some 14-year-old reverse engineers it.
Anyone here who's experienced the Army supply line can tell you this could be very useful. Right now most things are barcoded, but that still takes time. The Army needs fast, efficient inventory control as much as Wal-Mart does.
They've already done more than you believe in this area. We have very good ways of identifying friendly tanks. I should know since I just finished working for a tank division.
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If you look at their last annual report, not many. Their UNIX revenue has been declining for the last four years, and the deferred income from long-term contracts got cut in half from 2002-2003. I guess they're getting little new business and current contracts are expiring or being canceled.
And as opposed to the public statements we've heard, the report states that Novell and others indemnifying Linux users is a risk to their business.
With Pixar out of the picture, Disney won't have much worth watching anyway.
One MS ad telling you Linux TCO is higher than Windows and one from ZoneAlarm reminding you of all the security vulnerabilities you're going to have to guard against.
They chose the Times New Roman typeface at 14 point, consisting of the fonts regular, italic, bold and bold italic.
A typeface could technically be a font if you only have one version of that typeface = the one font in it.
the system allows users to add software patches -- such as a glitch fix or upgrade -- without interruption while a mission is in flight. "We've always had that [feature] so you don't have to shut down, reload and restart after every patch,"
All you needed to read was that to know they weren't using Windows.
We can't solve their problems, they need to solve their problems. After all, they are their problems. Such hubris to think that we can fix everything.
At a recent Arab summit, leaders flat out said that the Arabs need more freedom of the press, freedom in general, open government, government that doesn't squander the nation's wealth through corruption, and job opportunity. In a nutshell, they said they need to realize that their problems are of their own making, from within their own societies. The West is simply a high-profile scapegoat and people like you believe them.
Therefore, while these laws run directly against our most cherished values, they are the only defence against the threat.
For that reason, there is no real defence. It's a no-win situation. If we continue to play by these rules, we've already lost.
The The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 already gave the FBI the power to investigate suspected terrorists and spies, and to aid them even set up a special secret court system with rubber-stamp sealed warrants with no opportunity for challenge. The PATRIOT Act didn't do anything but erode our rights.
Step 4: sign a final deal, compensating the Palestinians for their loss.
That's pretty simplistic. Even if that problem were entirely our fault, and we set up all Palestinians with their own country and lots of free stuff, they'd still hate us because, well, we're us. Osama started against us claiming we needed to get our troops out of the holy land of Saudi Arabia, and now we're out and I haven't heard anything about a cease fire.
XServe has it, G5 doesn't.
No, because that's what he wants. He used the suits to pump up his failed company for a buyout. The contract with the lawyers even says they get a cut in case of a buyout, so you know they were planning for it.
If we're talking about IT, I ended up doing some of it during the gulf war (if you're the guy who can do it and you're there at the time, then you do it). It's hard to concentrate on what you're doing when artillery is falling.
So, in effect you're saying that Microsoft can steal all the GPL code it wants and put it in Windows, because nobody can prove that they did it without access to Windows source? Seems like there needs to be a middle ground here of reasonable requirements.
..." I believe something like this was news here on /. recently.
If you find evidence of your source code, such as exact functionality or a specific network signature, bring a suit and ask for that one specific piece of code during discovery. Not "somewhere in the network architecture" like SCO would, but specific like in "X functionality in service Y that produces the network traffic pattern Z
I have lots of German and American DVDs and was about to buy a multizone DVD player so I can stop using my computer to play the German ones, but I'll wait until I find out whether this one will be restricted or can be modded.
"You've already made us look stupid twice doing your dirty work, so we quit."
They'll get in trouble if they do release the claimed source code to the public, that's for sure. However, couldn't they release file names and line numbers in CVS?
Many people, Americans and other, call foul on the issue w/Iraq using the slogan "but you supported him/it 20 years ago!".
To put it in simpler terms, it's like people getting mad at President Johnson's Cold War policies towards the USSR, saying "But you supported Stalin 20 years ago."
War and politics make for strange bedfellows.
Humans making the Cylons? Talk about changing a fundamental "truth" of the original series.
Any IP lawyer should know that you can't copyright a list of facts. Making such a claim in light of such basic IP law should fall under the category of "knowingly misrepresents." Still tough to prove, but would make for great precedent.
They could have rightfully sued under trade secrets, but the DMCA is everybody's favorite hammer these days.
What money? I'd say wait for Best Buy to drop their claim like Wal-Mart did, essentially admitting they had no case about the information being copyrighted (Supreme Court precedent is clearly against them in the telephone book case), and let their lawyer go after Best Buy on a contingency fee basis.
Sec. 512 F of the DMCA:
`(f) MISREPRESENTATIONS- Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section--
`(1) that material or activity is infringing, or
`(2) that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
Linda Lamone, director of the state elections board, largely dismissed Rubin's concerns and insisted Diebold had completed all the recommended changes in its software.
and
Russell Doupnick, the state's deputy chief information officer, rejected Rubin's call for full disclosure of the SAIC report. He said officials did not want to provide "a road map to intrude into the system."
If Diebold has made fixed all of the vulnerabilities, then how is a report of the vulnerabilities going to tell people how to exploit them? Any system should be able to maintain high security with full disclosure of all code and APIs. If not, they're relying on security through obscurity, and we all know that works pretty well until some 14-year-old reverse engineers it.
Okay, we've established that you've never been in the military.
One word: range
Anyone here who's experienced the Army supply line can tell you this could be very useful. Right now most things are barcoded, but that still takes time. The Army needs fast, efficient inventory control as much as Wal-Mart does.
They've already done more than you believe in this area. We have very good ways of identifying friendly tanks. I should know since I just finished working for a tank division.
but US Law should realise that and make it illegal to pass data which is protected in the US to these countries.
Funny, the EU is having the exact same problem with passing EU peoples' data to the U.S. because of privacy concerns.