Interestingly enough, I just did a scan on someone's computer with Norton AV 2004, and it did pick up something and called it adware/malware. I think they are adding this to their virus protection.
But as someone else mentioned, they have to be very careful what they do, since they could be sued for that I'm sure. We don't have right or wrong in america, we have how likely am I to get sued.
You'd think that someone clever enough to create a live linux CD would have heard of BitTorrent by now.
Wake up people, releasing ISO's should be done through BitTorrent. Then, instead of/. making it impossible to download, it harnesses the power of/. to make it faster to download.
My copy of SSX Tricky was replaced that way. Disc got scratched, sent in the game, and they gave me a new copy: case, instructions, and all.
Making backup copies of games and such was definitely important back in the old days, when we kept games on rather fragile floppy discs, and the companies that sold the games to us weren't exactly big-money companies with such nice replacement policies. Today, that's not the case.
I'm sorry, but maybe I like to pull out old games much more often than you do. How many companies will replace a game they put out 10 years ago?
If my Darklands disk was scratched, I don't think I could replace it. My Suikoden 1 disk probably can't be replaced by the manufacturer either.
If the battery in that old Legend of Zelda cartridge died, can you fix it?
There are still compelling reasons for wanting a backup of your games, or any software. The kind of support you are talking about is really only short term.
Does it actually look at what gets used, or just what is installed?
I have 357 packages installed on my debian machine. Most of those are just there due to my distribution's base install. I was lazy and used knoppix. I don't even use X on that system.
Stores do this all the time. I had a similar circumstance where I had loaned a friend a large quantity of books. Then I was gone for a few months during the summer. When I got back, I found out that they had sold the books to a used book store in order to pay the rent. They had thought I had moved away for good or something. The book store in question refused to return the books, claiming I had no proof they were mine, despite my name being clearly written in, then marked over (but still legible) in each of the books. 75% had already been sold.
The police couldn't do anything until I pressed charges against the person who stole them. Then they came in and seized the remaining books. 6 months later, they were returned to me.
Suffice it to say, I'm not really friends with that person anymore. But, they did admit to it, and were willing to give the store the money back to get the books back. But the store wouldn't even do that. They wanted to sell them for full price. The remaining books would have cost more than the entire lot was purchased at by the store. In the end, I was more upset with the store than the person. I still won't return to that book store.
Wasn't there a slashdot article the other day that said the opposite? That the problem with MMO games is that they have become single player games where you can chat with other players, and that there is less and less meaningful interaction between players?
I guess it just depends on what sort of game you are looking for. Some people want to play cooperatively against the computer. Some people want to have a virtual world, where competition between players is a strong part of that. Different games will appeal to different crowds.
The mud I used to play and really liked, had a very realistic feel to it. If you wandered into the wilderness, and fought something too hard for you to handle, you died. When you died, you started over with a new character. That's it, game over. Very harsh, but more realistic.
If you got stolen from by another character, you lost things. That's the way it goes. But, if they got caught, the soldiers would throw them in jail, and a templar would likely take all of their things. If they got caught murdering people, they were killed on sight by the guards. And the guards were pretty tough. You could get tough enough to take one, or maybe two if you were really good, but 4 or more would team you to death.
So there was crime, but if you stuck to the safe areas, that were heavily patrolled, you could successfully play a very non-competative character, where social interaction was all there was to the game. But for those that liked the seedy life, they could venture into the slums or the lawless wilderness.
There is a lot of potential to MMO Games. You just have to know what you want from one, and wht the designers have created to accomadate that.
As I see it, the biggest problem is that of verifying the sender. This sounds easy for a corporate relay where you can validate users from the internal network.
But what about my case? I own a domain. It does nothing but my own e-mail. Sadly, that address was available on the internet for longer than spam has been a real problem, so it gets hit hard. But the point is, the server is a linux box attached to my cable modem. I can't relay out through it. To cut back on spam, my ISP blocks SMTP out. I have to relay through their smtp server. So they have to allow me to send from any number of e-mails. Granted, some places use a login/password to tie that to a specific cable modem account, but even with that, there is no way for them to verify the validity of the address I supply.
I'm not a crypto expert, but the only way I can see it working is if that relay server can compare some key I provide with a key that it gets from the dns record for my domain. But the real trick will be making certain the key I provide can't just be copied and used again. Maybe if it is linked with the timestamp?
It's not an easy problem. And, all the SMTP servers need to agree on a standard to make it work.
The real point it, USB is designed to be able to have lots of devices all talking at a moderate rate without interfering with each other. So sure, the cable and ports can handle a high rate, but any particular device never really sees it. Firewire is designed to allow for one device to get a big, fat, steady, pipe. There is a reason all of those digital camcorders use firewire. The good ones that is.
I'm a computer consultant, and on the road a lot. I'd love to have car stereo that would accept CDs full of MP3s and Oggs. Mostly Oggs since my music collection is mostly my own CDs which I have ripped to Ogg on my computer.
Are there any car CD players that support Ogg? And I don't mean an add-on that sits in the trunk, I'm in a pickup and don't have room for it. (although the kenwood music keg does look really cool.)
and people wonder why ATI suddenly comes out ahead of NVidia.
Last I checked ATI didn't have the best linux support either. I have a friend with the misfortune of having the Nforce chipset motherboard and a Radeon graphics card. Good luck getting the two to work together.
Open source kernel + 1 closed source driver may work just fine. But open source kernel + 2 closed source drivers can mean conflicts and incompatability.
It doesn't help that Nvidia's precompiled agpart driver for the nforce board only supports nvidia graphics cards. After spending an entire day recompiling kernels, I was able to get either 3D acceleration and no onboard network, or no 3D but with the network working.
I'm sure I could have gotten it all working with enough time, but it wasn't my machine. Still, it shouldn't have to be that hard.
I am glad that Nvidia provides a linux driver, but I really wish they would provide open source drivers. If two many closed source drivers are added to the kernel, it will make it unusable.
The sad fact is, while there are some shows I really like, I prefer to watch TV when it hits DVD. I would rather spend $40 a month on DVDs than cable. Star Trek, Farscape, Babylon 5, Buffy, Angel, and 24 are some of the many shows I have mostly watched from DVD (ST:TNG I saw mostly as it aired, but DS9 I'm only now catching up on through DVD.)
I only saw the pilot to firefly, but I liked it. I'm looking foward to seeing it now on DVD.
I wonder how many sci-fi shows have poor ratings because geeks like me can't be bothered to actually watch TV with commercials. Will it ever be possible for a series to survive in a straight to DVD format?
Is systemic. These being 'persistent' worlds, they permit somebody to spend all their time in them, 16 hours a day if they like (although that is an extreme example). Yet the only way to get anywhere faster in the game is to spend more time at it.
Ordinary, casual gamers are forced to compete with everyone else in the game for the status/level of accomplishment they want, and to do this they have to run on a treadmill that just keeps getting steeper. Most people cannot devote 8 hours a day to the game, for the average person, even an hour every day works out to quit a lot.
I think this is an excellent point. I was ruined by armageddonMud (http://www.armageddon.org/) which ruined any future MUD for me.
There are two aspects that I thought made it an excellent game. Not a game for everyone, but the best role-playing (in the table-top sense, not the power-gaming computer sense) on the net in my experience.
First, there are no levels. There are skills you can develop. The way you develop those skills is by practicing them. You practice them by doing them. However, once you've practiced a skill, there is a real time delay before you can learn that skill again. This is actual time, not online time. So if you play a little each day, you learn almost as fast as someone who plays a lot each day. You also only learn the skills you use. If you go and kill something, you get better at killing things. Your other skills, magic, sneaking, crafting, merchanting, etc, are unaffected. So if you want to play a thief, you can become a highly skilled and successful thief, and never have to kill anything, ever.
Also, since there are no levels, and you can't see what other people's skills are like, the game is oriented toward character interaction. "Success" in a game doesn't have to be being able to beat up everyone else. There is a social structure in the world you try and find a place in. My favorite characters were gamblers, artists, and explorers. None of these could defeat even the weakest creatures in the wilderness. But I enjoyed playing them, and was able to advance in the social context of the world without ever having mastered my skills. All through role-playing.
As I said, not everyone's sort of game. But the sort of game many people are seeking in a MUD. Having a staff that works toward making the world feel real, advancing plots, etc, goes a long way toward that as well. If I had the money, I'd start a graphical MUD based on story and role-playing.
What I like even better, is that the stock seems to have dropped a penny since the slashdot article was posted. An early post said the 20% was a drop from 15 to 12.
Maybe by Monday we can get the stock to drop to 1 penny, where it would still be overinflated.
Using Ctrl-Alt-Del for a login prompt doesn't mean you can't have a Trojan password gatherer. It just means you have to code it in Linux/*BSD where you can control the interrupt yourself. Make it bootable from floppy (grabbing extra data from HD or net if needed) and after a few login tries it 'reboots'. The floppy is long gone, and now it's back to the real NT (or 2k/xp) screen.
Nothing is secure when you can get physical access to the machine.
http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/download.php?t ar get=return_of_the_king_trailer_480x280_fixed.mov No corruption, good file. Thank Penny Arcade for the link.
Memory is really not an issue these days either, considering how cheap it is.
I work at a store that also repairs computers. I can tell you that while memory is cheap, there are a lot of people who are still running older machines. People bring in Pentium I's and II's all the time. Even the occasional 486 shows up. Besides, once you have ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Kazaa, Weatherbug, Gator, Comet Cursors, Norton Anti-Virus, Mcaffee, Office quick start, Cox quick connect, etc, etc, etc, running, I've seen Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz machines that make a Duran 700Mhz machine look super fast.
Post b:
My client still works fine; it's just too bad if Trillian (whose newest beta version still works, BTW) or some other 3rd party meta-IM client gets boked along with all the spammers.
The point of being able to use Trillian is to have one client for multiple networks. I use Trillian so I don't have to care which network someone is on. I'm on all of them. A single uniform client, with a single interface for each.
I don't worry about losing connectivity to one network for a short while, all the people I really want to talk to have multiple types of accounts as well.
For once I'm glad I live in California. I have an e-mail address that, until I discovered spam-assassin, was inundated with spam. So now that every e-mail sent to me that spam-assassin tags is illegal (It may not always catch spam, but I've never had it mark a real mail as spam), is there some agency I can set my filter to forward the spam to that will enforce this?
Even better, can that agency hire me to help sort and enforce this?
I remember back in the days of 30MB drives or so. The box would say 30MB, but in fine print it would define 30MB as 30,000,000 bytes. At the time, most customers wouldn't notice that 30,000,000 != 31457280 because of overhead from the filesystem and such.
I work in a computer store, and I can tell you that customers can be very upset when they learn (by doing properties in windows) that their new 120 GB drive only has 114.440918 GB on it. That's 5GB of lost space as far as they are concerned.
It would be one thing if windows and other operating systems identified a "120GB" drive as 120GB. But since two different systems are used to measure the same thing, I would call that deceptive advertising. The only reason it hasn't happened earlier is nobody noticed it. Now that there is a signigicant discrepancy, the average consumer is getting upset. As hard drives get larger, this will only get worse.
Now when will somebody file some class action lawsuits against the makers of spyware that auto installs itself on people's machines and doesn't give them a way to uninstall it?
Finding obfuscated copied code is a difficult problem to solve. Presumably, SCO has put forth much effort into that, but they refuse to make public their claims.
What are you talking about? Yes, SCO could obfuscate their code. The point is, there are thousands if not more people who have legitimate copies of the code. They have had their copies much longer than SCO has been working on their lawsuit. It's not like SCO has rereleased the Unix source code in an obfuscated version. Nobody with a licensed copy of the source code would be able to use it for anything.
The infringing code is out there. SCO isn't the only group with access to it. They can't go and hide it now, it's been around for a long time. Someone will be able to compare the code and point to the areas in the Linux code that needs to be examined.
And it's astounding how many supposedly intelligent people (programmers) who have you in their address books end up sending you virii because they were stupid enough to continue clicking on emails about 'Hot pics' or those 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' emails. Sheesh.
Hey, don't blame me if the idiot that is hit by the virus has both of us in their address book, and the virus spoofs my name as the from line. I keep getting bounced messages saying 'your e-mail was rejected because it has a virus.' When I never sent the e-mail, and I'm pretty certain neither my linux mail server nor evolution was infected by a windows virus.
The modern virus lies about it's origin when it sends itself out.
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Interestingly enough, I just did a scan on someone's computer with Norton AV 2004, and it did pick up something and called it adware/malware. I think they are adding this to their virus protection.
But as someone else mentioned, they have to be very careful what they do, since they could be sued for that I'm sure. We don't have right or wrong in america, we have how likely am I to get sued.
You'd think that someone clever enough to create a live linux CD would have heard of BitTorrent by now.
/. making it impossible to download, it harnesses the power of /. to make it faster to download.
Wake up people, releasing ISO's should be done through BitTorrent. Then, instead of
My copy of SSX Tricky was replaced that way. Disc got scratched, sent in the game, and they gave me a new copy: case, instructions, and all.
Making backup copies of games and such was definitely important back in the old days, when we kept games on rather fragile floppy discs, and the companies that sold the games to us weren't exactly big-money companies with such nice replacement policies. Today, that's not the case.
I'm sorry, but maybe I like to pull out old games much more often than you do. How many companies will replace a game they put out 10 years ago?
If my Darklands disk was scratched, I don't think I could replace it. My Suikoden 1 disk probably can't be replaced by the manufacturer either.
If the battery in that old Legend of Zelda cartridge died, can you fix it?
There are still compelling reasons for wanting a backup of your games, or any software. The kind of support you are talking about is really only short term.
How does it determine popularity?
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Does it actually look at what gets used, or just what is installed?
I have 357 packages installed on my debian machine. Most of those are just there due to my distribution's base install. I was lazy and used knoppix. I don't even use X on that system.
Now, the packages I actually use on it are:
vi
gcc
perl
exim
ssh
nethack
apache
wuft
samba
ices
icecast
I'm sure there are a few others, but that is about it really.
So does it take actually usage into consideration, or just the fact that it is installed?
In danger of straying further off-topic:
What PC with the horsepower to handle Unreal Tournament 2004 doesn't have a DVD drive?
They are so cheap now, and come standard with most machines.
Now, to bring it back on topic, I want that Knoppix DVD! It's my favorite install of Debian!
Stores do this all the time. I had a similar circumstance where I had loaned a friend a large quantity of books. Then I was gone for a few months during the summer. When I got back, I found out that they had sold the books to a used book store in order to pay the rent. They had thought I had moved away for good or something. The book store in question refused to return the books, claiming I had no proof they were mine, despite my name being clearly written in, then marked over (but still legible) in each of the books. 75% had already been sold.
The police couldn't do anything until I pressed charges against the person who stole them. Then they came in and seized the remaining books. 6 months later, they were returned to me.
Suffice it to say, I'm not really friends with that person anymore. But, they did admit to it, and were willing to give the store the money back to get the books back. But the store wouldn't even do that. They wanted to sell them for full price. The remaining books would have cost more than the entire lot was purchased at by the store. In the end, I was more upset with the store than the person. I still won't return to that book store.
Instant messaging is easier controlled (I never get any Spam, but then I don't allow people on my buddy list to IM me).
Don't let people communicate with you at all. Set your filters to reject all e-mail, and you'll get 100% spam blockage!
(I know, that was a typo, but I couldn't resist!)
Wasn't there a slashdot article the other day that said the opposite? That the problem with MMO games is that they have become single player games where you can chat with other players, and that there is less and less meaningful interaction between players?
I guess it just depends on what sort of game you are looking for. Some people want to play cooperatively against the computer. Some people want to have a virtual world, where competition between players is a strong part of that. Different games will appeal to different crowds.
The mud I used to play and really liked, had a very realistic feel to it. If you wandered into the wilderness, and fought something too hard for you to handle, you died. When you died, you started over with a new character. That's it, game over. Very harsh, but more realistic.
If you got stolen from by another character, you lost things. That's the way it goes. But, if they got caught, the soldiers would throw them in jail, and a templar would likely take all of their things. If they got caught murdering people, they were killed on sight by the guards. And the guards were pretty tough. You could get tough enough to take one, or maybe two if you were really good, but 4 or more would team you to death.
So there was crime, but if you stuck to the safe areas, that were heavily patrolled, you could successfully play a very non-competative character, where social interaction was all there was to the game. But for those that liked the seedy life, they could venture into the slums or the lawless wilderness.
There is a lot of potential to MMO Games. You just have to know what you want from one, and wht the designers have created to accomadate that.
Gee, why can't they just call it what it really is, NT 5.5 or something?
As I see it, the biggest problem is that of verifying the sender. This sounds easy for a corporate relay where you can validate users from the internal network.
But what about my case? I own a domain. It does nothing but my own e-mail. Sadly, that address was available on the internet for longer than spam has been a real problem, so it gets hit hard. But the point is, the server is a linux box attached to my cable modem. I can't relay out through it. To cut back on spam, my ISP blocks SMTP out. I have to relay through their smtp server. So they have to allow me to send from any number of e-mails. Granted, some places use a login/password to tie that to a specific cable modem account, but even with that, there is no way for them to verify the validity of the address I supply.
I'm not a crypto expert, but the only way I can see it working is if that relay server can compare some key I provide with a key that it gets from the dns record for my domain. But the real trick will be making certain the key I provide can't just be copied and used again. Maybe if it is linked with the timestamp?
It's not an easy problem. And, all the SMTP servers need to agree on a standard to make it work.
Languages should be open source, be it C, C++, Java, or C#. If they aren't, they don't seem like good languages to me!
The real point it, USB is designed to be able to have lots of devices all talking at a moderate rate without interfering with each other. So sure, the cable and ports can handle a high rate, but any particular device never really sees it. Firewire is designed to allow for one device to get a big, fat, steady, pipe. There is a reason all of those digital camcorders use firewire. The good ones that is.
I'm simplifying, but you get the point.
I'm a computer consultant, and on the road a lot. I'd love to have car stereo that would accept CDs full of MP3s and Oggs. Mostly Oggs since my music collection is mostly my own CDs which I have ripped to Ogg on my computer.
Are there any car CD players that support Ogg? And I don't mean an add-on that sits in the trunk, I'm in a pickup and don't have room for it. (although the kenwood music keg does look really cool.)
and people wonder why ATI suddenly comes out ahead of NVidia.
Last I checked ATI didn't have the best linux support either. I have a friend with the misfortune of having the Nforce chipset motherboard and a Radeon graphics card. Good luck getting the two to work together.
Open source kernel + 1 closed source driver may work just fine. But open source kernel + 2 closed source drivers can mean conflicts and incompatability.
It doesn't help that Nvidia's precompiled agpart driver for the nforce board only supports nvidia graphics cards. After spending an entire day recompiling kernels, I was able to get either 3D acceleration and no onboard network, or no 3D but with the network working.
I'm sure I could have gotten it all working with enough time, but it wasn't my machine. Still, it shouldn't have to be that hard.
I am glad that Nvidia provides a linux driver, but I really wish they would provide open source drivers. If two many closed source drivers are added to the kernel, it will make it unusable.
Now they're wondering why we don't watch TV...
The sad fact is, while there are some shows I really like, I prefer to watch TV when it hits DVD. I would rather spend $40 a month on DVDs than cable. Star Trek, Farscape, Babylon 5, Buffy, Angel, and 24 are some of the many shows I have mostly watched from DVD (ST:TNG I saw mostly as it aired, but DS9 I'm only now catching up on through DVD.)
I only saw the pilot to firefly, but I liked it. I'm looking foward to seeing it now on DVD.
I wonder how many sci-fi shows have poor ratings because geeks like me can't be bothered to actually watch TV with commercials. Will it ever be possible for a series to survive in a straight to DVD format?
Is systemic. These being 'persistent' worlds, they permit somebody to spend all their time in them, 16 hours a day if they like (although that is an extreme example). Yet the only way to get anywhere faster in the game is to spend more time at it.
Ordinary, casual gamers are forced to compete with everyone else in the game for the status/level of accomplishment they want, and to do this they have to run on a treadmill that just keeps getting steeper. Most people cannot devote 8 hours a day to the game, for the average person, even an hour every day works out to quit a lot.
I think this is an excellent point. I was ruined by armageddonMud (http://www.armageddon.org/) which ruined any future MUD for me.
There are two aspects that I thought made it an excellent game. Not a game for everyone, but the best role-playing (in the table-top sense, not the power-gaming computer sense) on the net in my experience.
First, there are no levels. There are skills you can develop. The way you develop those skills is by practicing them. You practice them by doing them. However, once you've practiced a skill, there is a real time delay before you can learn that skill again. This is actual time, not online time. So if you play a little each day, you learn almost as fast as someone who plays a lot each day. You also only learn the skills you use. If you go and kill something, you get better at killing things. Your other skills, magic, sneaking, crafting, merchanting, etc, are unaffected. So if you want to play a thief, you can become a highly skilled and successful thief, and never have to kill anything, ever.
Also, since there are no levels, and you can't see what other people's skills are like, the game is oriented toward character interaction. "Success" in a game doesn't have to be being able to beat up everyone else. There is a social structure in the world you try and find a place in. My favorite characters were gamblers, artists, and explorers. None of these could defeat even the weakest creatures in the wilderness. But I enjoyed playing them, and was able to advance in the social context of the world without ever having mastered my skills. All through role-playing.
As I said, not everyone's sort of game. But the sort of game many people are seeking in a MUD. Having a staff that works toward making the world feel real, advancing plots, etc, goes a long way toward that as well. If I had the money, I'd start a graphical MUD based on story and role-playing.
But I should probably just keep my day job.
What I like even better, is that the stock seems to have dropped a penny since the slashdot article was posted. An early post said the 20% was a drop from 15 to 12.
Maybe by Monday we can get the stock to drop to 1 penny, where it would still be overinflated.
Using Ctrl-Alt-Del for a login prompt doesn't mean you can't have a Trojan password gatherer. It just means you have to code it in Linux/*BSD where you can control the interrupt yourself. Make it bootable from floppy (grabbing extra data from HD or net if needed) and after a few login tries it 'reboots'. The floppy is long gone, and now it's back to the real NT (or 2k/xp) screen.
Nothing is secure when you can get physical access to the machine.
I got mine from here:
t ar get=return_of_the_king_trailer_480x280_fixed.mov
http://www.aixgaming.com/filerush/download.php?
No corruption, good file. Thank Penny Arcade for the link.
Post a:
Memory is really not an issue these days either, considering how cheap it is.
I work at a store that also repairs computers. I can tell you that while memory is cheap, there are a lot of people who are still running older machines. People bring in Pentium I's and II's all the time. Even the occasional 486 shows up. Besides, once you have ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Kazaa, Weatherbug, Gator, Comet Cursors, Norton Anti-Virus, Mcaffee, Office quick start, Cox quick connect, etc, etc, etc, running, I've seen Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz machines that make a Duran 700Mhz machine look super fast.
Post b:
My client still works fine; it's just too bad if Trillian (whose newest beta version still works, BTW) or some other 3rd party meta-IM client gets boked along with all the spammers.
The point of being able to use Trillian is to have one client for multiple networks. I use Trillian so I don't have to care which network someone is on. I'm on all of them. A single uniform client, with a single interface for each.
I don't worry about losing connectivity to one network for a short while, all the people I really want to talk to have multiple types of accounts as well.
For once I'm glad I live in California. I have an e-mail address that, until I discovered spam-assassin, was inundated with spam. So now that every e-mail sent to me that spam-assassin tags is illegal (It may not always catch spam, but I've never had it mark a real mail as spam), is there some agency I can set my filter to forward the spam to that will enforce this?
Even better, can that agency hire me to help sort and enforce this?
>It denies you root access
>>Try Ctrl+Alt+F2. Replace F2 with F5 to get back to GUI screen.
Even better, open xterm: sudo bash
I remember back in the days of 30MB drives or so. The box would say 30MB, but in fine print it would define 30MB as 30,000,000 bytes. At the time, most customers wouldn't notice that 30,000,000 != 31457280 because of overhead from the filesystem and such.
I work in a computer store, and I can tell you that customers can be very upset when they learn (by doing properties in windows) that their new 120 GB drive only has 114.440918 GB on it. That's 5GB of lost space as far as they are concerned.
It would be one thing if windows and other operating systems identified a "120GB" drive as 120GB. But since two different systems are used to measure the same thing, I would call that deceptive advertising. The only reason it hasn't happened earlier is nobody noticed it. Now that there is a signigicant discrepancy, the average consumer is getting upset. As hard drives get larger, this will only get worse.
Now when will somebody file some class action lawsuits against the makers of spyware that auto installs itself on people's machines and doesn't give them a way to uninstall it?
Finding obfuscated copied code is a difficult problem to solve. Presumably, SCO has put forth much effort into that, but they refuse to make public their claims.
What are you talking about? Yes, SCO could obfuscate their code. The point is, there are thousands if not more people who have legitimate copies of the code. They have had their copies much longer than SCO has been working on their lawsuit. It's not like SCO has rereleased the Unix source code in an obfuscated version. Nobody with a licensed copy of the source code would be able to use it for anything.
The infringing code is out there. SCO isn't the only group with access to it. They can't go and hide it now, it's been around for a long time. Someone will be able to compare the code and point to the areas in the Linux code that needs to be examined.
And it's astounding how many supposedly intelligent people (programmers) who have you in their address books end up sending you virii because they were stupid enough to continue clicking on emails about 'Hot pics' or those 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' emails. Sheesh.
Hey, don't blame me if the idiot that is hit by the virus has both of us in their address book, and the virus spoofs my name as the from line. I keep getting bounced messages saying 'your e-mail was rejected because it has a virus.' When I never sent the e-mail, and I'm pretty certain neither my linux mail server nor evolution was infected by a windows virus.
The modern virus lies about it's origin when it sends itself out.