it provides non-repudiation and legal timestamps of documentation
It gives a whole new meaning to the term "going postal" when you find out that authentic-looking digitally-signed Nigerian business proposition wasn't such a good deal after all...
The EPM is designed to deter and detect any fraudulent tampering or altering of electronic data.
Hell, they weren't even able to deliver the bubblewrapped hard-disk I sent in a triple-thickness FRAGILE-sticker-equipped box I overnighted to my business partner in one piece...
I have an 1st gen IBM PC here that says 5M was once very cool, so cool it was double-height and you had to park the heads before sneezing, and a PDP-11 in my collection that swears 512K removable disks the size of my satellite dish, with the washing-machine-sized drive that went with them, were all the rage back then.
Of course we care. It's a great ocasion to learn how to say "sod off Darl" in foreign languages:
Fick dich Darl Vaffanculo Darl que te jodan Darl Vas te faire foutre Darl vai-te foder Darl Ay Gamisou Darl Knep dig selv Darl stop het in je nauwe gaatje Darl k chortoo Darl cachau bant Darl sa-mi sugeti pula Darl haista paska Darl poq gai Darl spierdalaj Darl yebem ti mrtwu mater Darl bazd meg a picsadat Darl popusis mi krac krasni Darl siktir lan Darl ebi se v guza Darl Do prdele Darl mine vittu Darl lech lehizdayen Darl achike Darl jebi se Darl
It's as risky as...well...eating a melon with a spoon.
For your information, I tried eating a melon with a spoon. The melon wasn't ripe, so I had to push the spoon quite hard. As a result, bits of melon went flying off to the table next to mine, where an escaped convicted serial murderer happened to be sitting. He grabbed the spoon and proceeded to stab me violently with it. Then he shoved the melon up my..well nevermind the rest.
Since I am not a lawyer, and I don't even claim to fully understand what SCO wants/says, I will therefore assume that if big names such as IBM, Novell and HP decide to put their reputation and money against SCO, they probably have legions of very qualified lawyers that say SCO doesn't stand a chance, or such a small chance that it's a safe bet to invest money in anti-SCO tactics.
Under the terms of the program, Novell will offer indemnification for copyright infringement claims made by third parties against registered Novell customers who obtain SuSE Enterprise Linux 8 after January 13, 2004, upgrade protection and a qualifying technical support contract from Novell or a Novell channel partner
In other words, Novell bought any old Linux distro to make money out of people's fears of SCO (or rathe, fear of having to deal with the SCO annoyance). Some surprise...
Refilling your Lexmark cartridge isn't just a DMCA violation -- it's a sin!
Joke apart, those monks could do it : can you imagine Lexmark dragging them to court over this? Sure they'd be guilty, but Lexmark's sales would take a big dip, so they'd never do it. How's that for a DMCA circumvention scheme?
Were in Born in IRAQ I'm sure Saddam Insane would have made him a general and honoured him for his ability to hack into the cruise missle control systems.
You mean the missiles found by the UN inspectors, of the ones found by the coalition?
Also, given the state of high tech there, I think "hacking the missile cruise control" in Iraq means physically hacking the door and winding up the big launch spring manually.
Verisign will change the serial number format and "minimum" value in the.com and.net zones
Right, so when I fall on an unresolved address, I can't even return it under warranty because the serial number has changed, and even if they did reimburse me, they changed the value. That's just flipping great...
heads off into the mountains to find some hillbillies, figuring they don't know anything about money anyway. He runs across a couple of them sitting on a porch, rolls down his window, and shouts, "Any of you got change for an $18 bill?"
One of them shouts back, "Sure do! You want 3 sixes or 6 threes?"
This story is obviously an urban legend : what self-respecting mountain hillbilly would have known 3x6=18?
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would you send your taxes by email five minutes before they were due? If a late timestamp meant a fine?
;-)
Simple: chose a USPS signature server located on the west coast
it provides non-repudiation and legal timestamps of documentation
...
It gives a whole new meaning to the term "going postal" when you find out that authentic-looking digitally-signed Nigerian business proposition wasn't such a good deal after all
The EPM is designed to deter and detect any fraudulent tampering or altering of electronic data.
...
Hell, they weren't even able to deliver the bubblewrapped hard-disk I sent in a triple-thickness FRAGILE-sticker-equipped box I overnighted to my business partner in one piece
What you are watching is the latest Slashdot meme infecting more and more hollow teenage brains.
Yes, I can just see that, trance/techno, house, gangsta rap or hard rock in shopping malls.
I remember when 100 megs was cool
...
You youngsters
I have an 1st gen IBM PC here that says 5M was once very cool, so cool it was double-height and you had to park the heads before sneezing, and a PDP-11 in my collection that swears 512K removable disks the size of my satellite dish, with the washing-machine-sized drive that went with them, were all the rage back then.
Surely you mean 5 LoCs in a cigar box? ...
that'd be about 500 deciLoCs per cigar I reckon
Of course we care. It's a great ocasion to learn how to say "sod off Darl" in foreign languages:
Fick dich Darl
Vaffanculo Darl
que te jodan Darl
Vas te faire foutre Darl
vai-te foder Darl
Ay Gamisou Darl
Knep dig selv Darl
stop het in je nauwe gaatje Darl
k chortoo Darl
cachau bant Darl
sa-mi sugeti pula Darl
haista paska Darl
poq gai Darl
spierdalaj Darl
yebem ti mrtwu mater Darl
bazd meg a picsadat Darl
popusis mi krac krasni Darl
siktir lan Darl
ebi se v guza Darl
Do prdele Darl
mine vittu Darl
lech lehizdayen Darl
achike Darl
jebi se Darl
Dear silly CEO McBride,
I say NI to you. Your SysV was a hamster, and you SCOsource smells of elderberries. Now go go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
French Taunters, SARL
P.S. to legale departement: Fetchez la vache
It's as risky as...well...eating a melon with a spoon.
For your information, I tried eating a melon with a spoon. The melon wasn't ripe, so I had to push the spoon quite hard. As a result, bits of melon went flying off to the table next to mine, where an escaped convicted serial murderer happened to be sitting. He grabbed the spoon and proceeded to stab me violently with it. Then he shoved the melon up my..well nevermind the rest.
So you see, I resent that remark!
Anyone else finding it difficult to understand these dealings?
If it smells like poo and looks like poo, it could be fruit flan disguised as poo, but more likely it's just poo.
What happens if SCO wins?
Since I am not a lawyer, and I don't even claim to fully understand what SCO wants/says, I will therefore assume that if big names such as IBM, Novell and HP decide to put their reputation and money against SCO, they probably have legions of very qualified lawyers that say SCO doesn't stand a chance, or such a small chance that it's a safe bet to invest money in anti-SCO tactics.
And you think they bought SuSE because ...?
Under the terms of the program, Novell will offer indemnification for copyright infringement claims made by third parties against registered Novell customers who obtain SuSE Enterprise Linux 8 after January 13, 2004, upgrade protection and a qualifying technical support contract from Novell or a Novell channel partner
...
In other words, Novell bought any old Linux distro to make money out of people's fears of SCO (or rathe, fear of having to deal with the SCO annoyance). Some surprise
Refilling your Lexmark cartridge isn't just a DMCA violation -- it's a sin!
Joke apart, those monks could do it : can you imagine Lexmark dragging them to court over this? Sure they'd be guilty, but Lexmark's sales would take a big dip, so they'd never do it. How's that for a DMCA circumvention scheme?
I'm an athiest!
and a dyslexic too.
Wisconsin's LaserMonks say they'll give you a doozy of a deal
Are these LaserMonks related to the Electric Monk by any chance?
Were in Born in IRAQ I'm sure Saddam Insane would have made him a general and honoured him for his ability to hack into the cruise missle control systems.
You mean the missiles found by the UN inspectors, of the ones found by the coalition?
Also, given the state of high tech there, I think "hacking the missile cruise control" in Iraq means physically hacking the door and winding up the big launch spring manually.
Well, at least he won't be homeless for 5 years.
Actually, he must be kicking himself for having pled guilty, now that he knows it usually reduces the sentence.
That the hacker is represented by a man named "Hecker"? Only in America...
That's right, only in America. In Mexico, the guy would have been represented by Sr. Heckador. In France, M. Heckeur. In Cuba, probably by nobody.
The internet infrastructure should be managed and run by the community
Yes I'm sure that would work.
Verisign will change the serial number format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones
Right, so when I fall on an unresolved address, I can't even return it under warranty because the serial number has changed, and even if they did reimburse me, they changed the value. That's just flipping great...
the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer.
Then sooner or later, Bubba will backdoor you in jail.
Maybe I'm calling my doctor about a health problem I don't care anyone else to know about (rash? std? hemmrhoids?)
No need for wiretapping. The feds seeing your VoIP client connecting to uranus.preparationh.com is enough.
heads off into the mountains to find some hillbillies, figuring they don't know anything about money anyway. He runs across a couple of them sitting on a porch, rolls down his window, and shouts, "Any of you got change for an $18 bill?"
One of them shouts back, "Sure do! You want 3 sixes or 6 threes?"
This story is obviously an urban legend : what self-respecting mountain hillbilly would have known 3x6=18?