If Microsoft includes a virus scanner in their product this will just mean that viruses will be enhanced such that they fuck up both the virus scanner, the scanner pattern update tool, and the software update mechanism of microsoft.
The next step will be microsoft making most of the programs run as non-root, with you having to type in a password if u try to change settings. This will turn Windows users into non-power users even faster, but wont do anything but forcing virus creators to find two security holes where they needed one before.
I guess I'd like to apologize for telling you to read groklaw. But I'm still not finished talking back;-) Doesn't SCO just need to have one valid point among their pile of 100s of lies and accusations to win the case. But you are probably right I should read up on IBMs Lanham act claims ( which I know nothing about)...
Maybe they could put all the credits into a separate file which states who did what ? I'm sure this is more easy to handle than having to read all files for hidden gotchas.
In the very first paragraph, SCO says nothing about System V. They say that IBM promised to not use code from AIX and Dynix/Sequent. (My only weak point here is that it would have been stupid by IBM to sign such a contract. But I guess they did) Obviously, code from Dynix seems to match code from Linux 2.4. This is simply a contract issue.
While they extend their argument by saying that code made linux a lot better, this argument is meant to extort higher damages from IBM - it does not indicate viral ownership of Linux code, not even the matching code.
If this is true, the only possible defence for IBM is that the code was added to Dynix later that the agreement with SCO about not using Dynix code, making it effectively non-Dynix-old-version.
I feel completely in line with the feelings of the/. crowd that SCO shouldn't own linux, but I've looked at the article at groklaw. My conclusions:
SCO is not trying to prove whether it had any rights to the unix code that might have been incorporated into the linux kernel. It states simply that it has an agreement with IBM that IBM may not use code from two of their operating systems for anything else.
I can imagine that IBM might have gotten itself ****ed unnecessarily by such an agreement. This means I see a chance that SCO can win
I always wanted to write my own virus damage routine, which fragments the hard drive, but I never got around to do it. It should be easy with the Windows API for defragmenting already there. This russian guy(Bosinsky? Kaspersky? Markovich? I forgot) had a simple example how to use the API but you need a Visual C Compiler.
And its not really causing damage that can't be reversed, it is just slowing down the computer a lot:-))
The apes are the colonists who successfully adapted to life on earth without civilisation. The hair dressers survived by cutting the apes hair. I don't know how the salesmen survived but I guess the economy was based somehow on the hairdressers.
Actually, it would be better to make using internet services like the web work like bittorrent - make everyone using the service a cache for download by others. One could start with making proxy servers offer that service.
While I guess you can think of lots of reasons why it won't happen, I think there would be some sites interested in participating.
Such a tool is useful to an agency because you don't have to find a reason to get connection logs from an ISP and you can forget all the paperwork and the delay(maybe weeks) involved.
So suppose you have someone look at a "dangerous" document, then the tool can tell you whether the looker is in a place of interest (likely the USA or the middle east).
Genetically engineered corn will not do anything good to the third world for several reasons:
the first reason is that GEC is not free. It needs to be paid for by a high annual fee. Sometimes special herbicides are part of the package.
next the company selling the corn forbids the farmers to keep part of their harvest for seeds as is customary. Where the company cannot control that these restrictions are followed it will use political pressure to destroy any of their crops found and will not offer their corn. Companies like this distribution model because their profits are protected by patents.
the GECs genes can cross over to other corn and seeds owned by farmers. Farmers will get sued, disowned and be forbidden to use their seeds.
Of course this means that GECs will make us in the developed countries own the third world, so hell, lets do it.
Lets see everyone who wants me to read his comments on slashdot has to sent me a request first whether I accept his writings.
I'm sure this will reduce the trouble I have scanning slashdot for relevant info to the MINOR TROUBLE OF RECEIVING TONS OF "Please add me to your contact/whitelist" REQUESTS.
I think the "average" person should create an organization which assists people with ideas but without resources with money and lawyers in patenting every good idea ASAP. And if not patent it, document that the idea was there and that there is prior art. Mail me if you do that:-)
Apart from donations, revenue would come from licensing and cross-licensing negotiations could force more patents to become public.
I'm serious. There are companies that do peer-to-peer networks, why no network of indivuduals that patent.
While I have no experience of this myself, it occurs (from what/.ers said) to me that the connection between ADD and Tourettes may be that such a persons brain has a smaller sweet spot, a smaller area where it operates "normally".
So my guess is it would be pointless to take medication against ADD and Tourettes at the same time, although it might be good to have both available (e.g. for exams).
The SEC is supposed to care about this stuff even if its small companies. I would guess that a lot of small companies are among the offenders of SEC rules.
If you really wanted to you could probably force a court ruling by buying some SCO stock and then suing them when the stock drops if you really believe that SCO violated SEC rules in its SEC filings. But I guess as long as you don't blatantly lie, a court might find that your SEC filings were ok.
Just imagine how confused M$ would be if they owned both Windows and Unix:
M$: You should use Windows because of its low cost of maintenance and ownership - no wait - you should use Unix because its a stable server platform - no wait - use Windows - no wait - still better we will bring out a Windows based on Unix - no wait - this is almost what Apple did.
I think you can build your own linux(plus GNU plus other stuff) for your own use out of as many linux distros as you wish AS LONG AS you only take those parts from the distro that are linux proper, or are distributed under a free, GPL or open license. So you might get a problem using SuSE-yast IMHO because it is by SuSE. As the proverb says, stealing from one is plagiarism, stealing from many is an art.
Of course, it's better not to do it this way, because you probably will get confused with all the licenses, and you can't give your linux(plus GNU plus other stuff) to someone else. It is the other stuff that is making problems.
You can also install Linux to a second partition on your hard disk, and make VMWare run that second OS inside Windows (I guess it also works the other way around). So you CAN work with a real file system.
When you argue against the DMCA, Mitnick doesn't fit in. He was hunting for code(read program source code) on other peoples computers and was even dumb enough to challenge the people whose computers he hacked by asking them to give him the code because he would get it anyway.
In a comic book, Mitnick could just as well pose as the arch-villain as as the hero. And he was convicted before and without using the DMCA.
The DVD case is different, because the only thing even remotely illegal done by the DVD guy was reading documentation which once upon a time might have been a trade secret.
The DMCA is better likened to the British forbidding the Indians to gather salt from the seas, something Gandhi protest-marched against.
The UN is perfect for this. That way everyone can have warning and everyone can benefit from the research.
Ow, sure the world will be a saver place once every UN member, even without researching itself, will have access to detailed information on how to make a deadly virus.
Ow, I have an even better idea: make it the GNU Free Virus project - we all know that open source is much better protected against viruses and worms than closed source is (MS Windows).
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The next step will be microsoft making most of the programs run as non-root, with you having to type in a password if u try to change settings. This will turn Windows users into non-power users even faster, but wont do anything but forcing virus creators to find two security holes where they needed one before.
Why did they send only one on a three person craft ?
Obviously, to return with aliens in the free seats.
You understand now, Scully ?
I guess I'd like to apologize for telling you to read groklaw. But I'm still not finished talking back ;-) Doesn't SCO just need to have one valid point among their pile of 100s of lies and accusations to win the case. But you are probably right I should read up on IBMs Lanham act claims ( which I know nothing about)...
Maybe they could put all the credits into a separate file which states who did what ?
I'm sure this is more easy to handle than having to read all files for hidden gotchas.
While they extend their argument by saying that code made linux a lot better, this argument is meant to extort higher damages from IBM - it does not indicate viral ownership of Linux code, not even the matching code.
If this is true, the only possible defence for IBM is that the code was added to Dynix later that the agreement with SCO about not using Dynix code, making it effectively non-Dynix-old-version.
SCO is not trying to prove whether it had any rights to the unix code that might have been incorporated into the linux kernel. It states simply that it has an agreement with IBM that IBM may not use code from two of their operating systems for anything else.
I can imagine that IBM might have gotten itself ****ed unnecessarily by such an agreement. This means I see a chance that SCO can win
Also see my homepage for more drivel like the above line ;-)
And its not really causing damage that can't be reversed, it is just slowing down the computer a lot :-))
The apes are the colonists who successfully adapted to life on earth without civilisation. The hair dressers survived by cutting the apes hair. I don't know how the salesmen survived but I guess the economy was based somehow on the hairdressers.
While I guess you can think of lots of reasons why it won't happen, I think there would be some sites interested in participating.
So suppose you have someone look at a "dangerous" document, then the tool can tell you whether the looker is in a place of interest (likely the USA or the middle east).
Of course this means that GECs will make us in the developed countries own the third world, so hell, lets do it.
I'm sure this will reduce the trouble I have scanning slashdot for relevant info to the MINOR TROUBLE OF RECEIVING TONS OF "Please add me to your contact/whitelist" REQUESTS.
If you place the neurons in a freezer, by how much can you overclock them ?
page 1: The beginning of nanotechnology and resistance to it.
page 2: nanotubes can cause deadly lung disease
page 3: nanoparticle can kill ground microbes, making the soil infertile
page 4: nanotechnology may be risky and production is uncontrolled right now
page 5: few precautions are being taken, and there is more fear than knowledge.
Wait a minute this Eolas patent - wasn't this the one about plugging something in somewhere ?
Well then, to whom do I have to my pay license fees when I have sex the next time ? Contact info appreciated.
"RedLaggedTeut" < diag@cheerful.com >
Apart from donations, revenue would come from licensing and cross-licensing negotiations could force more patents to become public.
I'm serious. There are companies that do peer-to-peer networks, why no network of indivuduals that patent.
So my guess is it would be pointless to take medication against ADD and Tourettes at the same time, although it might be good to have both available (e.g. for exams).
The SEC is supposed to care about this stuff even if its small companies. I would guess that a lot of small companies are among the offenders of SEC rules.
If you really wanted to you could probably force a court ruling by buying some SCO stock and then suing them when the stock drops if you really believe that SCO violated SEC rules in its SEC filings. But I guess as long as you don't blatantly lie, a court might find that your SEC filings were ok.
M$: You should use Windows because of its low cost of maintenance and ownership - no wait - you should use Unix because its a stable server platform - no wait - use Windows - no wait - still better we will bring out a Windows based on Unix - no wait - this is almost what Apple did.
Of course, it's better not to do it this way, because you probably will get confused with all the licenses, and you can't give your linux(plus GNU plus other stuff) to someone else. It is the other stuff that is making problems.
You can also install Linux to a second partition on your hard disk, and make VMWare run that second OS inside Windows (I guess it also works the other way around). So you CAN work with a real file system.
The DVD case is different, because the only thing even remotely illegal done by the DVD guy was reading documentation which once upon a time might have been a trade secret.
The DMCA is better likened to the British forbidding the Indians to gather salt from the seas, something Gandhi protest-marched against.
Ow, sure the world will be a saver place once every UN member, even without researching itself, will have access to detailed information on how to make a deadly virus.
Ow, I have an even better idea: make it the GNU Free Virus project - we all know that open source is much better protected against viruses and worms than closed source is (MS Windows).