This is a very easy problem to study. If there are over 6 million players world wide who play World of Warcraft, someone could easily look at crime statistics and make a proper link.
1. Have hate crimes against Taurens risen since WoW was launched? 2. Has there been a rise in reported cases of grand theft ninja? 3. Are more Gnomes getting college degrees and taking jobs at NASA, or are they still building explosives and arcanite dragons?
You could go even deeper than this, and I think that you'll find that video games don't contribute to the problem.
I just hope we get to see Darl find out that PJ is really Old Man Jones who used to run the old fairgrounds. And to think... SCO would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that meddling PJ.
Has anyone had any success in getting the RIAA/MPAA/ESA/etc to recoup any expenses you might get dinged with while doing work to prove your innocent? I know the letters aren't an actual lawsuit, but if you don't respond, one can only assume it's a matter of time until you do get sued.
What happens if someone caches Metallica, or the new super hot J-Lo movie? Then how is the guy who brings the director a warm towel ever going to make his money?
You guys should really think before you go out and start making technology that blatently abuses copyrights
The only problem I've had with it so far was trying to install Xamian Desktop 2 on SuSE 9.1 Pro. Xamian's installer said that it didn't recognize the current version of SuSE.
Now that they have a documented case of someone who was part of the 261 doers of evil against the RIAA paying only 2000 dollars for their crimes, does this hurt their 150k per song price?
Couldn't you just argue that 2k is the going rate?
Doesn't Darl sound a little like Bill back in the day?
From the CNET Article:
"We're fighting for the right in the industry to be able to make a living selling software," McBride told the audience. He compared this right to the ability "to send your children to college" and "to buy a second home."
And From Gates' letter to computer hobbyists:
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
How can this be legal under the DMCA? I mean they are obviously circumventing their own protection scheme. Has anyone notified SCO, the MPAA, the RIAA, or better yet the FBI?!?!
The SCO Group Invites You to Join Its Second-Quarter 2003 Results Conference Call LINDON, Utah, May 22, 2003 -- The SCO® Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX) will report financial results for its second quarter ended April 30, 2003 before the market open on Wednesday, May 28, 2003, followed by a teleconference regarding its results and outlook.
WHAT: The SCO Group, Inc. Second-Quarter Results Conference Call
WHEN: Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 9:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time (11:00 a.m. EDT)
HOW: If you would like to participate in the live call, you may dial 1.800.946.0719 or 1.719.457.2645; Passcode: 728447.
You may also join the call in listen only mode via web cast at http://ir.sco.com/conference.cfm or www.companyboardroom.com
These sites will host an archive of the call for a minimum of 30-days.
About SCO
Founded in 1979, The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries around the world grow their businesses everyday through the company's UNIX, Linux and Windows business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a network of more than 16,000 resellers and 8,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services, visit http://www.sco.com.
SCO and the associated SCO logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX and UnixWare, used under an exclusive license, are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.
I have just recently left my position at I guess what you could call an 'internet firm'. One of the main reasons was the 'CEO/Owner/Savior' of the company was a total ass. He demanded all of our passwords so he could check our emails, and use our computers. There was even rumors that he was about to install a video camera system in the office.
My boss tried to make me sign a contract that would make anything I even thought of while I was working for the company property of the company. Even if I was not at work.
I can fully understand a company worried about people stealing code, spreading false rumors, and even worry about people competing with the company once you leave. But should they be able to use those tools that are meant to 'protect' them against employees who are trying to tell the TRUTH about a company. My boss even went as far as saying "I was not allowed to have any conversations with any employee if the topic of the conversation was negative in nature". But negative to what? If the people in a company are treated like shit, and the employees talk about it, is that forbidden in your contract? I would hope not.
Personally I would rather not have a job, than have to sign a contract that could possibly be used against me where my free speech is concerned.
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This is a very easy problem to study. If there are over 6 million players world wide who play World of Warcraft, someone could easily look at crime statistics and make a proper link.
1. Have hate crimes against Taurens risen since WoW was launched?
2. Has there been a rise in reported cases of grand theft ninja?
3. Are more Gnomes getting college degrees and taking jobs at NASA, or are they still building explosives and arcanite dragons?
You could go even deeper than this, and I think that you'll find that video games don't contribute to the problem.
MPAA + 30 million = Anti Piracy Lab
DVD Jon + Hot Pockets = Anti-Anti Piracy Lab
which one would you buy stock in?
Slashdot Effect [ FAILED ]
We've been using pam_abl on our server for quite some time and it has been very successful.
One of our guys actually hacked it so it would use MySQL and iptables to automatically add certain types of offenders to the firewall.
Does this mean that I can move to Washington, and next time quicktime adds itself to my startup again I can pocket $100k?
http://dee.linuxworld.com/read/1278292.htm
http://www.openvms.org/
n dexGB.h tml
and
http://www.systella.fr/~bertrand/FreeVMS/i
which comes from
http://freshmeat.net/projects/freevms/
I just hope we get to see Darl find out that PJ is really Old Man Jones who used to run the old fairgrounds. And to think... SCO would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that meddling PJ.
He could have called it iScrabble and had Apple on their ass too.
Has anyone had any success in getting the RIAA/MPAA/ESA/etc to recoup any expenses you might get dinged with while doing work to prove your innocent? I know the letters aren't an actual lawsuit, but if you don't respond, one can only assume it's a matter of time until you do get sued.
OPTIMIZE TABLE `tablename`
h tml
or you can look here
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/OPTIMIZE_TABLE.
For all you p2p users out there:
http://www.ioccc.org.nyud.net:8090/
What happens if someone caches Metallica, or the new super hot J-Lo movie? Then how is the guy who brings the director a warm towel ever going to make his money?
You guys should really think before you go out and start making technology that blatently abuses copyrights
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The only problem I've had with it so far was trying to install Xamian Desktop 2 on SuSE 9.1 Pro. Xamian's installer said that it didn't recognize the current version of SuSE.
Other than that, it's pretty mean.
Does anyone have a torrent up for this release?
I've been using Mozilla firebird for my main browser and it's been really solid.
I also use Mozilla thunderbird for my email, and have been really happy with it.
You can get them from mozilla.org
Now that they have a documented case of someone who was part of the 261 doers of evil against the RIAA paying only 2000 dollars for their crimes, does this hurt their 150k per song price?
:D
Couldn't you just argue that 2k is the going rate?
IANAL, so I don't know, but it sounds funs
Since he clearly circumvented the copy protection that SCO placed on it's code (by using the Greek Font method) is Bruce now violating the DMCA?
These Open Source guys just don't care about IP rights.
</sarcasm>
Doesn't Darl sound a little like Bill back in the day?
From the CNET Article:
"We're fighting for the right in the industry to be able to make a living selling software," McBride told the audience. He compared this right to the ability "to send your children to college" and "to buy a second home."
And From Gates' letter to computer hobbyists:
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
How can this be legal under the DMCA? I mean they are obviously circumventing their own protection scheme. Has anyone notified SCO, the MPAA, the RIAA, or better yet the FBI?!?!
This sounds like a cool idea until someone gets pissed at a TV show and decides to DDOS the TV Station.
The SCO Group Invites You to Join Its Second-Quarter 2003 Results Conference Call
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LINDON, Utah, May 22, 2003 -- The SCO® Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX) will report financial results for its second quarter ended April 30, 2003 before the market open on Wednesday, May 28, 2003, followed by a teleconference regarding its results and outlook.
WHAT: The SCO Group, Inc. Second-Quarter Results Conference Call
WHEN: Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 9:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time (11:00 a.m. EDT)
HOW: If you would like to participate in the live call, you may dial 1.800.946.0719 or 1.719.457.2645; Passcode: 728447.
You may also join the call in listen only mode via web cast at http://ir.sco.com/conference.cfm or www.companyboardroom.com
These sites will host an archive of the call for a minimum of 30-days.
About SCO
Founded in 1979, The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries around the world grow their businesses everyday through the company's UNIX, Linux and Windows business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a network of more than 16,000 resellers and 8,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services, visit http://www.sco.com
SCO and the associated SCO logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX and UnixWare, used under an exclusive license, are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.
http://shfs.sourceforge.net/
This has some potential.
last post?
I have just recently left my position at I guess what you could call an 'internet firm'. One of the main reasons was the 'CEO/Owner/Savior' of the company was a total ass. He demanded all of our passwords so he could check our emails, and use our computers. There was even rumors that he was about to install a video camera system in the office.
My boss tried to make me sign a contract that would make anything I even thought of while I was working for the company property of the company. Even if I was not at work.
I can fully understand a company worried about people stealing code, spreading false rumors, and even worry about people competing with the company once you leave. But should they be able to use those tools that are meant to 'protect' them against employees who are trying to tell the TRUTH about a company. My boss even went as far as saying "I was not allowed to have any conversations with any employee if the topic of the conversation was negative in nature". But negative to what? If the people in a company are treated like shit, and the employees talk about it, is that forbidden in your contract? I would hope not.
Personally I would rather not have a job, than have to sign a contract that could possibly be used against me where my free speech is concerned.
~~R~~