No idea, although I think all the issues are in software. I have no idea why telewest and NTL both went for the worlds crappest software (slow, buggy, crashes a lot, hard to use, and an ugly UI), but they did. Oddly, a friend in Reading has NTL, with the same hardware, but completely different software, which is actually useable. Slightly sluggish compared with Sky, but perfectly stable and attractive.
Because if it's open spource, then the user has full access to all the code, and the data on the smartcard. With all this information, piracy will be trivial.
So what happens if you tell them that you can't be bothered returning the box? I bet before they start legal proceedings against you, they'll bill you for the box.
So why don't the laws reflect the hard they do? Why are prosecutors being forced to use an inappropriate measure, that may even get thrown out on the basis that it is inappropriate?
Just because it leads to a valid conclusion does not make the assumption valid. SCO are quite capable of determining the full history of every line of code in their kernel, and probably every line in the Linux kernel.
Apparently they are not doing this, and we can only guess at the rasons why, but it's daft to assume that they are unable.
I don't know. Ask SCO. Maybe they did have their legal team go over it. Maybe they figured that the open source people wouldn't be able to do the research.
Well, it was surely just as easy for them to say "Sorry I'm not interested" when people called to voice their opinions. Answering the phone is not always convenient. It's impolite to call people and then try to sell them something. I'm quite happy with a tit for tat retaliation.
As the Article implies, the Junior Programmer would have to know:
1. What are the other public kernels
Yes. It's not exactly rocket science to work out what kernels have publicly available source.
Where are they
He doesn't need to know this. SCO has lots of employees. This is a job for the legal team. It's called research.
The history of interaction between Caldera, SCO and each of the other public kernels.
Why does he need to know this? His role is simply to determine of the code snippets match. He submits a report to his bosses. This gets forwarded to the legal team, who search through their archives to determine if said code originated at SCO, what court cases and contracts may have given full distribution rights to other organisations, and possible paths that it could have got into the Linux kernel.
Who said anything about copyright infringement? The charge is unlawful distribution of trade secrets. If they are right then they were stolen since they were removed from SCO without their permission, and SCO is now deprived of some secrets (insofar as they are no longer secret).
So, for all purposes, it's safe to say SCO and its crack legal team just can't do the deeper historical analysis needed here. Would a junior programmer be able to produce the findings that the open source community can? No way. Such an individual simply would not have the depth of historical knowledge to know where to look.
This is a rather daft assumption. The junior programmer doesn't need to know the history of the code. Simply that the code is the same. Then all he needs to do is compare it with BSD and any other publically available kernels to eliminate any that may have had a common ancestry. The rest of the work could be left to someone who's good at researching in books,
And there's no reason that SCO couldn't hire someone with "depth of historical knowledge to know where to look". Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond aren't the only people with this knowledge. We don't know what SCO are doing, or what they're planning. Their public statements may be misleading simply because they don't want to show their hand. The code they did show may have been a gamble that didn't pay off. There may still be many lines of code that were stolen from SCO Unix.
Actualy, I don't want them finding out that I'm planning a legal demonstration against current government policy, or am planning to take the government to court over a certain important issue related to government corruption.
Why the hell is the local council, the fiure service and the post office investigating kiddie porn anyway?
Most of your links aren't inherently evil. The GPS tracking scheme is designed as a mechanism to deal with road tolls and the RFIDs are an anti-shoplifting measure. The issue is the uses they could be put to without any real diffculty, and without even telling us.
It is quite easy to have a great job, a family and a car in any totalitarian state. In fact, that's what they want. They want people to fit a standard predictable profile, where their entire day is spent working, or worrying about their children, and spending a decent proportion of their income on consumer goods such as cars.
This way they people don't have any inclination to rock the boat and get in trouble.
But you're not going to kill anyone. The interent is a public resource. Sadly, some people are going to use it irresponsibly. This simply means that hose people should have their access to the resource restricted. Not that everyone should be excluded until they can prove that they will be responsible.
It burns cleaner out of the tailpipe, but consider the agriculture, refinement,
Ethanol as a fuel can be almost as clean as solar power. The waste products are carbon-dioxide and water. The amount of carbon dioxide produced is the same as the amount of carbon dioxide consumed by the plants used to produce the ethanol in the first place. You need to distil it after it's been fermented, but that's about the only energy loss in the system.
cost, politics (subsidies), and you're just about back at square one.
The cost isn't huge. Production costs will fall if enough people choose to use ethanol.
The Xerox GUI was nowhere near a viable system though. PARC was just playing with concepts. Apple made a hell of a lot of improvements to the WIMP system, and were the ones to actually introduce it in a production machine. For example, PARC's GUI couldn't even draw to a window unless it was the currently selected topmost one.
That's pretty much what I though. From what he says, this guy is highly skilled, and has 8 years of experience with software development. He's most likely good with numbers, so even if he can't get a software job, he could always look to changing career to accountancy. Not the most exciting career for everyone, but it pays the bills (and then some).
What is he doing wrong? Does he just have bad interview technique? Sure, the tech industry is in decline, but proper skilled professionals who are willing to relocate shouldn't have a problem.
That's fine. Personally, so would I, but I wouldn't consider the same level of invasion of privacy as if he'd invaded my home. I was just pointing out that the analogy was flawed, because he used an overly personal example of real world trespass as an analogy for computer trespass to an impersonal corporate server.
My point was that tresspassing in a corporate office would be a much closer situation.
Why are you comparing it to your home? He hacked corporate servers! It's more like finding an intruder has manged to get past your security and knocked on your office door.
I'm sure I must have tried putting a 486 into the socket in the wrong orientation. I tried all sorts of other things to try and break that chip and motherboard (unsurprisingly, graphics go a little bit quirky when you take video RAM chips out while the machine's running, but removing a SIMM or the CPU causes the machine to freeze). As far as I know, the chip still works.
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No idea, although I think all the issues are in software. I have no idea why telewest and NTL both went for the worlds crappest software (slow, buggy, crashes a lot, hard to use, and an ugly UI), but they did. Oddly, a friend in Reading has NTL, with the same hardware, but completely different software, which is actually useable. Slightly sluggish compared with Sky, but perfectly stable and attractive.
Because if it's open spource, then the user has full access to all the code, and the data on the smartcard. With all this information, piracy will be trivial.
Cable TV companies DO NOT sell the boxes.
So what happens if you tell them that you can't be bothered returning the box? I bet before they start legal proceedings against you, they'll bill you for the box.
So why don't the laws reflect the hard they do? Why are prosecutors being forced to use an inappropriate measure, that may even get thrown out on the basis that it is inappropriate?
We're one of the few nations in the world where you can still wave a Nazi or Communist flag.
Nazi, maybe, but I don't think many European countries would have a huge issue with a communist flag, or communism in general.
Just because it leads to a valid conclusion does not make the assumption valid. SCO are quite capable of determining the full history of every line of code in their kernel, and probably every line in the Linux kernel.
Apparently they are not doing this, and we can only guess at the rasons why, but it's daft to assume that they are unable.
I don't know. Ask SCO. Maybe they did have their legal team go over it. Maybe they figured that the open source people wouldn't be able to do the research.
Well, it was surely just as easy for them to say "Sorry I'm not interested" when people called to voice their opinions. Answering the phone is not always convenient. It's impolite to call people and then try to sell them something. I'm quite happy with a tit for tat retaliation.
As the Article implies, the Junior Programmer would have to know:
1. What are the other public kernels
Yes. It's not exactly rocket science to work out what kernels have publicly available source.
Where are they
He doesn't need to know this. SCO has lots of employees. This is a job for the legal team. It's called research.
The history of interaction between Caldera, SCO and each of the other public kernels.
Why does he need to know this? His role is simply to determine of the code snippets match. He submits a report to his bosses. This gets forwarded to the legal team, who search through their archives to determine if said code originated at SCO, what court cases and contracts may have given full distribution rights to other organisations, and possible paths that it could have got into the Linux kernel.
Who said anything about copyright infringement? The charge is unlawful distribution of trade secrets. If they are right then they were stolen since they were removed from SCO without their permission, and SCO is now deprived of some secrets (insofar as they are no longer secret).
So, for all purposes, it's safe to say SCO and its crack legal team just can't do the deeper historical analysis needed here. Would a junior programmer be able to produce the findings that the open source community can? No way. Such an individual simply would not have the depth of historical knowledge to know where to look.
This is a rather daft assumption. The junior programmer doesn't need to know the history of the code. Simply that the code is the same. Then all he needs to do is compare it with BSD and any other publically available kernels to eliminate any that may have had a common ancestry. The rest of the work could be left to someone who's good at researching in books,
And there's no reason that SCO couldn't hire someone with "depth of historical knowledge to know where to look". Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond aren't the only people with this knowledge. We don't know what SCO are doing, or what they're planning. Their public statements may be misleading simply because they don't want to show their hand. The code they did show may have been a gamble that didn't pay off. There may still be many lines of code that were stolen from SCO Unix.
Actualy, I don't want them finding out that I'm planning a legal demonstration against current government policy, or am planning to take the government to court over a certain important issue related to government corruption.
Why the hell is the local council, the fiure service and the post office investigating kiddie porn anyway?
Counts as a spoiled form.
We really need a "reopen nominations" option in elections.
Most of your links aren't inherently evil. The GPS tracking scheme is designed as a mechanism to deal with road tolls and the RFIDs are an anti-shoplifting measure. The issue is the uses they could be put to without any real diffculty, and without even telling us.
It is quite easy to have a great job, a family and a car in any totalitarian state. In fact, that's what they want. They want people to fit a standard predictable profile, where their entire day is spent working, or worrying about their children, and spending a decent proportion of their income on consumer goods such as cars.
This way they people don't have any inclination to rock the boat and get in trouble.
But you're not going to kill anyone. The interent is a public resource. Sadly, some people are going to use it irresponsibly. This simply means that hose people should have their access to the resource restricted. Not that everyone should be excluded until they can prove that they will be responsible.
Yes, but what's the depreciation like? I'm guessing you plan to sell the car. Will people not pay any extra for a used hybrid over a used regular car?
It burns cleaner out of the tailpipe, but consider the agriculture, refinement,
Ethanol as a fuel can be almost as clean as solar power. The waste products are carbon-dioxide and water. The amount of carbon dioxide produced is the same as the amount of carbon dioxide consumed by the plants used to produce the ethanol in the first place. You need to distil it after it's been fermented, but that's about the only energy loss in the system.
cost, politics (subsidies), and you're just about back at square one.
The cost isn't huge. Production costs will fall if enough people choose to use ethanol.
The Xerox GUI was nowhere near a viable system though. PARC was just playing with concepts. Apple made a hell of a lot of improvements to the WIMP system, and were the ones to actually introduce it in a production machine. For example, PARC's GUI couldn't even draw to a window unless it was the currently selected topmost one.
That's pretty much what I though. From what he says, this guy is highly skilled, and has 8 years of experience with software development. He's most likely good with numbers, so even if he can't get a software job, he could always look to changing career to accountancy. Not the most exciting career for everyone, but it pays the bills (and then some).
What is he doing wrong? Does he just have bad interview technique? Sure, the tech industry is in decline, but proper skilled professionals who are willing to relocate shouldn't have a problem.
That's fine. Personally, so would I, but I wouldn't consider the same level of invasion of privacy as if he'd invaded my home. I was just pointing out that the analogy was flawed, because he used an overly personal example of real world trespass as an analogy for computer trespass to an impersonal corporate server.
My point was that tresspassing in a corporate office would be a much closer situation.
Which is also trespassing.
Ineed it is. It's also a much less emotive comparison than someone breaking into your home.
Why are you comparing it to your home? He hacked corporate servers! It's more like finding an intruder has manged to get past your security and knocked on your office door.
I thought just powers the time circuits.
Does putting it in at an angle break it?
I'm sure I must have tried putting a 486 into the socket in the wrong orientation. I tried all sorts of other things to try and break that chip and motherboard (unsurprisingly, graphics go a little bit quirky when you take video RAM chips out while the machine's running, but removing a SIMM or the CPU causes the machine to freeze). As far as I know, the chip still works.