OK, I hadn't realised that vmware was corrupted by "close" association with M$. The better, and pure, alternative is Win4lin. It shouldn't give a good goddamn about DRM crap in M$ malware.
To counter this "upgrade" to M$Office is to provide a very SIMPLE means of doing GPG encryption of their documents. Provide the same benefits without the cost: no windoze servers required, no lockin to a single vendor, etc. You encrypt your doc, only certain individuals can access it as you wish, etc. This could be done quickly, providing this capability with the next revision vs all the pain that M$ and users of M$ will have to go through...and it is fully backwards compatible/cross-compatible. Any GPG-based app/frontend could be used to decrypt the document if you have an older version of OO or some other wordprocessor but need to access the document.
Yeah, you can do this now with gpg at the commandline or via frontends but it is "harder" than simply making it a simple selection in the save file dialog. This simplicity is what corps and users need/want/could go with.
You can get around the deactivation of "print screen", etc, by running the app in vmware under Linux. Digital cameras are also a nice tool (NOW there is a real use for picture/camera cell phones).
You mforgot the MAIN reason this is of interest to M$ (or any other Corp. for that matter): ability to break the law and not get caught. M$/Gates hopes to eliminate the possibility of their written documents coming back to haunt them when they next violate anti-trust law (they will). This will also allow Enrons (basically all ethically corrupt corporations) to hide their illegal activity from courts and law enforcement.
Automatic expiration of documents (lost forever), inability of moral citizens to whistleblow - their natural right and a moral imperative, and allow corporations to break the law with more impugnity than they already do (esp. in the USA).
There should be laws passed that REQUIRE permanent records as a means of getting around expiration dates so that when a court says "Produce your documents" they STILL have to. No exceptions.
Why use martial law when they have the equivalent: conservative control of the news outlets, a cowed and pliable, knee-jerk populace, and Gitmo? Martial law will only be needed after the next convenient domestic terrorist attack (with ample warnings being conveniently ignored by Bush and Co aka 9/11) IF enough of the populace wakes up to realise that Shrub and Co are asleep at the wheel at best, or criminal proxies for big business (truly) at worst.
They will no doubt permit access to Republican-backed political sites. Certainly they will block any sites mentioning birth control or abortion, sites critical of US govt policies on global warming and the environment, etc.
You whinners need to get over it. Reverse engineering is a tried and true, and LEGAL, activity. It is A-OK and there aint shitall anyone can do about it. A hell of a lot of stuff that exists was reverse engineered or developed off something that was reverse engineered. Get over it.
It didn't create itself in a downloadable form. SOMEONE had to do work to rip the the track/song into an MP3, thus it is a derivative work. It is a work by the ripper to produce a reasonable facsimilie of the original. Thus, the ripper is an artiste.
some beaten down, I'll do what you tell me to do mindset of Brits that leads to a lot of posts in favor of this crap. Not being a Brit, I don't know, but what I do know is that this is beyond controlling speeding, going through red lights, etc, and gets VERY deeply into spying on Brit citizens no matter where they go. It looks like Britain is much further along (and still flying hell-bent-for-leather) towards a "Minority Report" sort of surveillance/police state where "they" know precisely where you are at all times. Cameras all over bejeezus, this auto tracking crap. Why not just chip all Brit subjects and have done with it? You wont miss anonymity. You wont miss privacy. You wont miss, well, all your rights. They were just a headache anyway. It is best that the STATE know and control your every move. You don't want/need to hurt yourself, have an affair/lover, a little peace and quiet, read whatever you want, think whatever you want, etc.
Of course, we have a similar evil coming from our own government here in the US. We have a hardcore, rightwing, religious fundy in the Whitehouse and running the Justice Department, and they both are keen to label anyone who thinks differently or has different morals a threat to the US and have them moved Guantanamo. It all boils down to the same thing, label it as much as you want a public safety issue, but ultimately it will be used/abused to squelch dissent and crush dissenters. Sure, it is SUPPOSED to be used to give tickets to lawbreakers, but then, it will also be used to smear political oponents ("What were you doing on such and such street at 11:00 p.m. last Thursday pervert!" or, "Are you sure you want to claim that you are not having an affair? You WERE parked at such and such address overnight quite a few times last year.").
Too bad the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact didn't hang on a few more years. Just THINK what they could have done with this sort of crap! Then again, I'm sure the Taliban and other lunatic religious governments around the world would make great use of such tracking capabilities once they are widely available and cheap. Thus, if a technological setup is such that it COULD be used by an abusive, dictatorial government to maintain iron-fisted control of its subjects then it WILL be and it should be automatically resisted with every breath. Even ostensibly free nations would cease to be free once pervasive tracking and observation is in place.
If the libertarians weren't so fanatically (almost religiously) married to the idea of guns and private property (and the right to pollute/destroy one's property and all that lives on it) above ALL other considerations, then I would be one of them. Unfortunately, you are all frickin' nuts, all fools, and all self-destructive.
Is an honest report on its playability, complexity, graphic detail, hardware requirements, and whether or not it is worth playing. I don't care about, nor do I want, a cultural critique or indepth analysis of its "deeper meaning". Give me a break.
Two things and two things only:
1. Be HONEST. Don't kiss game company ass.
2. Give me the meat about the game. I want to know whether it is worth my money and time.
Nothing else matters in a game review. Leave the "cultural analysis" and other crap to non-game review articles. Such analyses have a place ELSEWHERE.
Not to address her particular claim of having used Kazaa as a media playing device for her music, it IS a legitimate idea.
Say you have all the music/songs you like from YOUR CDs copied to YOUR computer at home. Say this computer has an always on broadband connection. Say you have a laptop or are visiting a relative/family member with a system also connected to broadband. You don't want to fill you laptop HDD with music files, you have them on your home PC. You don't want to carry around a bunch of CDs. So, you plugin your laptop to your friend's/relatives broadband connection and listen to YOUR music from YOUR computer in your new location. Kazaa makes a perfectly good app for doing this. A lot of other P2P apps could work the same way.
Whether or not SHE was actually doing something like this is not the point. It IS a possibility and fully legal means of accessing YOUR music or data. No one can restrict you from listening to YOUR music (or watching YOUR movies) anywhere you want to. They don't like the method you used to do this? Tough shit.
Keep in mind the ultimate goal. M$ wants to stake claim to everything on your PC. They seek to claim CONTROL of everything you do on it and with it. By hiding virtually everything on it from you, it becomes easy (by default) to control/own it. YOU have no idea what is there so you can't be upset when any of it is fiddled with at the whim of M$.
You don't OWN anything on your computer, not really (according to M$), you merely select the hardware that M$ will control for you. You then are to allow M$ to control what you see, do, create, read, play, etc. The way Gawd intended.
Naturally. Instead, you will write yet another instant messaging client, or yet another wordprocessor that no one will use, or yet another simplistic game, or yet another text-frickin editor...
Ya'll write a bunch of redundant "me-too" apps that matter not one iota. You, in a word, masturbate in software and get all pissy when people don't fall all over themselves thanking you for such a cool, new, incredibly redundant and unnecessary app.
Sure, getting paid is nice but then, who is really going to pay you to produce this unsexy stuff? Ed Ball? Or any other small business for that matter? Hell no, they can't afford that cost with no monetary return. Hence we run into the contradiction: some software will not be created without money to pay for it and to pay for it requires that money be made to make up for it (at the very least) but since selling software is a no-no (and wont work with GPL - only service and support are sellable), this means that there is no way for required software to get produced.
Don't get me wrong, I am a linux-exclusive user and I love it, as well as many of the tools that come with it but I also recognize that GPL isn't the answer to all software questions. There IS room for software for profit in itself. If nothing else, how about setting up a company along the lines of a modified Transgaming model: You will develop an app for money - that is, people are to pay for the application - until a certain minimum amount of money/income is reached, then it will be released GPL. You get paid, the software gets paid for (and not buy the simple charitable largess of some mystical company) by customers.
And thus, I learned long ago not to be "me" when I post to usenet or any other public forum. It is a rare time indeed when I ever provide any real information about myself to any net entity. Only sites that will receive my money via credit card or sites that I actually WANT to know who I am get my info. Anyone and everyone else gets scat.
This should be common knowledge and common practice. Perhaps it should be taught in elementary school the first time kids get access to computers and the net.
Ok, you want corporations, which cannot vote and are not single entities with desires or wants (it is a collection of many people and each and every one of them could have differing desires and wants, political and otherwise...thus a corporation doesn't have a viewpoint)? Then require all donations to be BLIND. The one receiving the donation can in no way know who gave the donation. No access of any kind can be allowed to come from a donation. You give $10000 so you get a meet with the criminal/candidate? No.
A candidate/campaign should only be allowed to see that they are getting x amount of dollars but not get ANY information from where it derives. And corporations, being a collection of independe nt individuals, cannot make a donation that isn't approved by a supermajority (by secret ballot) of its employees.
Only people exist. Corporations do not. They are fiction (in so much as being any form of "entity" with political beliefs or desires). Only individuals vote, not corporations. Only individuals have rights, not corporations.
YOU are a prime candidate to contact the FTC. See the later posts on this subject. The FTC will be interested in hearing from you more than from users who are theoretical targets of SCO extortion (until we actually get paper from SCO saying they want money, we are theoretical targets/candidate targets).
Go for it. Please. It is time to do all we can to shut this crap down yesterday.
...and do what? So, if I want to bother someone, and I have something important that needs saying, I could CALL them and SPEAK to them. Otherwise, how about I leave them alone (and they leave me alone) and not flood me with nonsensical, innane, vacuous text noise?
Perhaps you could do your "friends" a favor and give them the same consideration (and vis versa)?
and yet I KNEW Gigli stank. I didn't have to go to the theater and waste $$ to find out. I didn't need text messaging to leave me cool to the Hulk. The previews pretty much killed it for me (what a dumbass movie). Charlie's Angels? Nice asses and all but it just isn't my kind of movie, ya know?
People can SAY a movie stinks to other people quite easily. Word of mouth is powerful - it doesn't take text messaging to wreck loser hollywood tripe. Perhaps the MPAA can work on banning text messaging AND start suing people for badmouthing movies vocally.
Or...how about this? Start making GOOD F*CKING MOVIES! Quit jumping on bandwagons all the time. Instead of taking one movie that worked and then copying the crap out of it into derivative movies, they could actually be creative and take risks.
the reaction from/.ers. If this were a new plan to track "normal people" then the mass of posters would be up in arms and screaming to kill it before it even gets past the brainstorming phase. As it is, it merely refers to lessor humans, those disgusting, lazy, dirty homeless creature sub-humans who are where they are because they either chose to be there or otherwise deserve their lot. You can make equally strong suggestions as to the benefit of tracking "normal people" as you can for the homeless. It is just somehow more acceptable if you are a defenseless loser homeless person rather than a superior "normal".
I was shocked at the number of posts that either say its cool or not much of a big deal. Obviously, it is because the target of such tracking is less than human and less deserving of privacy and the right to anonymity.
But you ARE an animal by definition. Humans, ie, Homo sapiens, are animals. You meant that you don't want to be tracked the way humans track nonhuman animals.
It matters NOW because they have gone on record with the claim that GPL is invalid. They have fired a full broadside, showing their intent is to try to kill GPL (wild hail mary long bomb pass that is hopeless). They are cornered because IBM didn't do what they were SURE IBM would do: buy them out to shut them up. Their bluff was called so now they are panicked, stuck in their corner, lashing out in every direction hoping for something to get them out of their corner.
They are all looking at jail terms when all is said and done. They will lose their silly court cases, linux will bounce back from its little speed bump, linux and the GPL will be more legitimized and more inassailable, M$ will chew their nails because their gambit with SCO didn't pan out and they will actually have to face the competition in a fair and open fight, the SEC will roll the whole SCO crew over hot coals...this will be a hoot to look back on. It is getting to the point of being able to look back on it that sucks. Too frickin' slow to get resolution.
I would like to see a more high-speed court filing to force SCO to put up or shut up rather than have to wait YEARS for the Redhat and IBM suits to play out. Let's speed this up people!
You could consider this a very small (yet significant) sampling of their entire code collection that they claim infringes. As these published snippets are totally illegitimate one could reasonably infer that the bulk of the rest of the code SCO claims is equally illegitimate. Sure, it would be better to see a few other random snippets to get a better sampling.
If this is an indication of their "case" then they are well and truly hosed and they have to be hoping for time in which to artificially jack up their stock price. They are seeking to bury the opposition in "paper" (buttloads of code) that will they hope will take a good deal of time to vett, during which time they will milk it for all the extortion money they can manage.
I wouldn't want them to automatically and silently do ANYTHING with my system, no matter how "benign". Why? At least 2 reasons: 1) I, like millions of others, am still stuck with dialup internet. Upgrades can take hours of download time, totally absorbing virtually all available bandwidth - basically DoSing a dialup connection. Because the connection is transitory and relatively brief, the danger to and from such a system is minimal; and 2) Their "upgrades" will invariably include DRM restricted upgrades to otherwise perfectly fine software. They will use this autoupdate crap to restrict users by secretly and quietly replacing functional software with crippleware.
Piss off. Give a the right to say "yay" or "nay" or I'll just have to setup a firewall to block any ports you seek to use. My system is MINE to use or misuse as I see fit. Period.
Shows how little you know of what really goes on in the military, regardless of how quickly we can (not) vanquish an enemy.
Every 3rd day. That was the combat mission profile for each aircrew out of Diego Garcia (B-52s) during Desert Storm. One day to mission plan (that is, plan a mission that we knew damn well we wouldn't actually fly - it would ALWAYS change in flight and new targets designated), one day to fly the mission (13 hours was the shortest mission I flew on, 16 the longest), and one day off. What went on in the off time? That means the evening after mission planning and on the day off. Some of us rode mountain bikes all over the island (commanders and peons included), spent a few hours in the gym, snorkeled at the beach, rented a small Boston Whaler for a few hours, or, as happened with a distressing number of slobs...sat in quarters playing tetris and similar games on gameboys (new at that time).
If you are a ground pounder grunt, you don't get the luxurious free time that I mention. If you are an Air Force member, you get cush time and DO spend your time not fighting, reading mags, browsing the web (there was no web to browse of any note back then).
Those guys in Britain during that war had the same sort of profile as we did on Diego Garcia. Their time off, however, was spent in great British pubs, cruising shops, taking in the sites, etc. Commanders included.
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I believe that the projected time when Andromeda galaxy collides with our Milky Way (they ARE headed for collision) is around 100 million years hence (correction anyone?). This collision will induce a profusion of star formations and may end up ejecting our star/solar system out of the galaxy entirely. Or, we may end up in the Andromeda galaxy as it moves on its merry way, or...
In any case, the lights are scheduled to burst anew in a plethora of star formation in the nearish future. Of course, several BILLION years later, the trend remains as mentioned.
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OK, I hadn't realised that vmware was corrupted by "close" association with M$. The better, and pure, alternative is Win4lin. It shouldn't give a good goddamn about DRM crap in M$ malware.
To counter this "upgrade" to M$Office is to provide a very SIMPLE means of doing GPG encryption of their documents. Provide the same benefits without the cost: no windoze servers required, no lockin to a single vendor, etc. You encrypt your doc, only certain individuals can access it as you wish, etc. This could be done quickly, providing this capability with the next revision vs all the pain that M$ and users of M$ will have to go through...and it is fully backwards compatible/cross-compatible. Any GPG-based app/frontend could be used to decrypt the document if you have an older version of OO or some other wordprocessor but need to access the document.
Yeah, you can do this now with gpg at the commandline or via frontends but it is "harder" than simply making it a simple selection in the save file dialog. This simplicity is what corps and users need/want/could go with.
You can get around the deactivation of "print screen", etc, by running the app in vmware under Linux. Digital cameras are also a nice tool (NOW there is a real use for picture/camera cell phones).
You mforgot the MAIN reason this is of interest to M$ (or any other Corp. for that matter): ability to break the law and not get caught. M$/Gates hopes to eliminate the possibility of their written documents coming back to haunt them when they next violate anti-trust law (they will). This will also allow Enrons (basically all ethically corrupt corporations) to hide their illegal activity from courts and law enforcement.
Automatic expiration of documents (lost forever), inability of moral citizens to whistleblow - their natural right and a moral imperative, and allow corporations to break the law with more impugnity than they already do (esp. in the USA).
There should be laws passed that REQUIRE permanent records as a means of getting around expiration dates so that when a court says "Produce your documents" they STILL have to. No exceptions.
Why use martial law when they have the equivalent: conservative control of the news outlets, a cowed and pliable, knee-jerk populace, and Gitmo? Martial law will only be needed after the next convenient domestic terrorist attack (with ample warnings being conveniently ignored by Bush and Co aka 9/11) IF enough of the populace wakes up to realise that Shrub and Co are asleep at the wheel at best, or criminal proxies for big business (truly) at worst.
They will no doubt permit access to Republican-backed political sites. Certainly they will block any sites mentioning birth control or abortion, sites critical of US govt policies on global warming and the environment, etc.
You whinners need to get over it. Reverse engineering is a tried and true, and LEGAL, activity. It is A-OK and there aint shitall anyone can do about it. A hell of a lot of stuff that exists was reverse engineered or developed off something that was reverse engineered. Get over it.
It didn't create itself in a downloadable form. SOMEONE had to do work to rip the the track/song into an MP3, thus it is a derivative work. It is a work by the ripper to produce a reasonable facsimilie of the original. Thus, the ripper is an artiste.
some beaten down, I'll do what you tell me to do mindset of Brits that leads to a lot of posts in favor of this crap. Not being a Brit, I don't know, but what I do know is that this is beyond controlling speeding, going through red lights, etc, and gets VERY deeply into spying on Brit citizens no matter where they go. It looks like Britain is much further along (and still flying hell-bent-for-leather) towards a "Minority Report" sort of surveillance/police state where "they" know precisely where you are at all times. Cameras all over bejeezus, this auto tracking crap. Why not just chip all Brit subjects and have done with it? You wont miss anonymity. You wont miss privacy. You wont miss, well, all your rights. They were just a headache anyway. It is best that the STATE know and control your every move. You don't want/need to hurt yourself, have an affair/lover, a little peace and quiet, read whatever you want, think whatever you want, etc.
Of course, we have a similar evil coming from our own government here in the US. We have a hardcore, rightwing, religious fundy in the Whitehouse and running the Justice Department, and they both are keen to label anyone who thinks differently or has different morals a threat to the US and have them moved Guantanamo. It all boils down to the same thing, label it as much as you want a public safety issue, but ultimately it will be used/abused to squelch dissent and crush dissenters. Sure, it is SUPPOSED to be used to give tickets to lawbreakers, but then, it will also be used to smear political oponents ("What were you doing on such and such street at 11:00 p.m. last Thursday pervert!" or, "Are you sure you want to claim that you are not having an affair? You WERE parked at such and such address overnight quite a few times last year.").
Too bad the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact didn't hang on a few more years. Just THINK what they could have done with this sort of crap! Then again, I'm sure the Taliban and other lunatic religious governments around the world would make great use of such tracking capabilities once they are widely available and cheap. Thus, if a technological setup is such that it COULD be used by an abusive, dictatorial government to maintain iron-fisted control of its subjects then it WILL be and it should be automatically resisted with every breath. Even ostensibly free nations would cease to be free once pervasive tracking and observation is in place.
If the libertarians weren't so fanatically (almost religiously) married to the idea of guns and private property (and the right to pollute/destroy one's property and all that lives on it) above ALL other considerations, then I would be one of them. Unfortunately, you are all frickin' nuts, all fools, and all self-destructive.
Is an honest report on its playability, complexity, graphic detail, hardware requirements, and whether or not it is worth playing. I don't care about, nor do I want, a cultural critique or indepth analysis of its "deeper meaning". Give me a break.
Two things and two things only:
1. Be HONEST. Don't kiss game company ass.
2. Give me the meat about the game. I want to know whether it is worth my money and time.
Nothing else matters in a game review. Leave the "cultural analysis" and other crap to non-game review articles. Such analyses have a place ELSEWHERE.
Not to address her particular claim of having used Kazaa as a media playing device for her music, it IS a legitimate idea.
Say you have all the music/songs you like from YOUR CDs copied to YOUR computer at home. Say this computer has an always on broadband connection. Say you have a laptop or are visiting a relative/family member with a system also connected to broadband. You don't want to fill you laptop HDD with music files, you have them on your home PC. You don't want to carry around a bunch of CDs. So, you plugin your laptop to your friend's/relatives broadband connection and listen to YOUR music from YOUR computer in your new location. Kazaa makes a perfectly good app for doing this. A lot of other P2P apps could work the same way.
Whether or not SHE was actually doing something like this is not the point. It IS a possibility and fully legal means of accessing YOUR music or data. No one can restrict you from listening to YOUR music (or watching YOUR movies) anywhere you want to. They don't like the method you used to do this? Tough shit.
Keep in mind the ultimate goal. M$ wants to stake claim to everything on your PC. They seek to claim CONTROL of everything you do on it and with it. By hiding virtually everything on it from you, it becomes easy (by default) to control/own it. YOU have no idea what is there so you can't be upset when any of it is fiddled with at the whim of M$.
You don't OWN anything on your computer, not really (according to M$), you merely select the hardware that M$ will control for you. You then are to allow M$ to control what you see, do, create, read, play, etc. The way Gawd intended.
Naturally. Instead, you will write yet another instant messaging client, or yet another wordprocessor that no one will use, or yet another simplistic game, or yet another text-frickin editor...
Ya'll write a bunch of redundant "me-too" apps that matter not one iota. You, in a word, masturbate in software and get all pissy when people don't fall all over themselves thanking you for such a cool, new, incredibly redundant and unnecessary app.
Sure, getting paid is nice but then, who is really going to pay you to produce this unsexy stuff? Ed Ball? Or any other small business for that matter? Hell no, they can't afford that cost with no monetary return. Hence we run into the contradiction: some software will not be created without money to pay for it and to pay for it requires that money be made to make up for it (at the very least) but since selling software is a no-no (and wont work with GPL - only service and support are sellable), this means that there is no way for required software to get produced.
Don't get me wrong, I am a linux-exclusive user and I love it, as well as many of the tools that come with it but I also recognize that GPL isn't the answer to all software questions. There IS room for software for profit in itself. If nothing else, how about setting up a company along the lines of a modified Transgaming model: You will develop an app for money - that is, people are to pay for the application - until a certain minimum amount of money/income is reached, then it will be released GPL. You get paid, the software gets paid for (and not buy the simple charitable largess of some mystical company) by customers.
And thus, I learned long ago not to be "me" when I post to usenet or any other public forum. It is a rare time indeed when I ever provide any real information about myself to any net entity. Only sites that will receive my money via credit card or sites that I actually WANT to know who I am get my info. Anyone and everyone else gets scat.
This should be common knowledge and common practice. Perhaps it should be taught in elementary school the first time kids get access to computers and the net.
Ok, you want corporations, which cannot vote and are not single entities with desires or wants (it is a collection of many people and each and every one of them could have differing desires and wants, political and otherwise...thus a corporation doesn't have a viewpoint)? Then require all donations to be BLIND. The one receiving the donation can in no way know who gave the donation. No access of any kind can be allowed to come from a donation. You give $10000 so you get a meet with the criminal/candidate? No.
A candidate/campaign should only be allowed to see that they are getting x amount of dollars but not get ANY information from where it derives. And corporations, being a collection of independe nt individuals, cannot make a donation that isn't approved by a supermajority (by secret ballot) of its employees.
Only people exist. Corporations do not. They are fiction (in so much as being any form of "entity" with political beliefs or desires). Only individuals vote, not corporations. Only individuals have rights, not corporations.
YOU are a prime candidate to contact the FTC. See the later posts on this subject. The FTC will be interested in hearing from you more than from users who are theoretical targets of SCO extortion (until we actually get paper from SCO saying they want money, we are theoretical targets/candidate targets).
Go for it. Please. It is time to do all we can to shut this crap down yesterday.
...and do what? So, if I want to bother someone, and I have something important that needs saying, I could CALL them and SPEAK to them. Otherwise, how about I leave them alone (and they leave me alone) and not flood me with nonsensical, innane, vacuous text noise?
Perhaps you could do your "friends" a favor and give them the same consideration (and vis versa)?
and yet I KNEW Gigli stank. I didn't have to go to the theater and waste $$ to find out. I didn't need text messaging to leave me cool to the Hulk. The previews pretty much killed it for me (what a dumbass movie). Charlie's Angels? Nice asses and all but it just isn't my kind of movie, ya know?
People can SAY a movie stinks to other people quite easily. Word of mouth is powerful - it doesn't take text messaging to wreck loser hollywood tripe. Perhaps the MPAA can work on banning text messaging AND start suing people for badmouthing movies vocally.
Or...how about this? Start making GOOD F*CKING MOVIES! Quit jumping on bandwagons all the time. Instead of taking one movie that worked and then copying the crap out of it into derivative movies, they could actually be creative and take risks.
the reaction from /.ers. If this were a new plan to track "normal people" then the mass of posters would be up in arms and screaming to kill it before it even gets past the brainstorming phase. As it is, it merely refers to lessor humans, those disgusting, lazy, dirty homeless creature sub-humans who are where they are because they either chose to be there or otherwise deserve their lot. You can make equally strong suggestions as to the benefit of tracking "normal people" as you can for the homeless. It is just somehow more acceptable if you are a defenseless loser homeless person rather than a superior "normal".
I was shocked at the number of posts that either say its cool or not much of a big deal. Obviously, it is because the target of such tracking is less than human and less deserving of privacy and the right to anonymity.
But you ARE an animal by definition. Humans, ie, Homo sapiens, are animals. You meant that you don't want to be tracked the way humans track nonhuman animals.
It matters NOW because they have gone on record with the claim that GPL is invalid. They have fired a full broadside, showing their intent is to try to kill GPL (wild hail mary long bomb pass that is hopeless). They are cornered because IBM didn't do what they were SURE IBM would do: buy them out to shut them up. Their bluff was called so now they are panicked, stuck in their corner, lashing out in every direction hoping for something to get them out of their corner.
They are all looking at jail terms when all is said and done. They will lose their silly court cases, linux will bounce back from its little speed bump, linux and the GPL will be more legitimized and more inassailable, M$ will chew their nails because their gambit with SCO didn't pan out and they will actually have to face the competition in a fair and open fight, the SEC will roll the whole SCO crew over hot coals...this will be a hoot to look back on. It is getting to the point of being able to look back on it that sucks. Too frickin' slow to get resolution.
I would like to see a more high-speed court filing to force SCO to put up or shut up rather than have to wait YEARS for the Redhat and IBM suits to play out. Let's speed this up people!
You could consider this a very small (yet significant) sampling of their entire code collection that they claim infringes. As these published snippets are totally illegitimate one could reasonably infer that the bulk of the rest of the code SCO claims is equally illegitimate. Sure, it would be better to see a few other random snippets to get a better sampling.
If this is an indication of their "case" then they are well and truly hosed and they have to be hoping for time in which to artificially jack up their stock price. They are seeking to bury the opposition in "paper" (buttloads of code) that will they hope will take a good deal of time to vett, during which time they will milk it for all the extortion money they can manage.
I wouldn't want them to automatically and silently do ANYTHING with my system, no matter how "benign". Why? At least 2 reasons: 1) I, like millions of others, am still stuck with dialup internet. Upgrades can take hours of download time, totally absorbing virtually all available bandwidth - basically DoSing a dialup connection. Because the connection is transitory and relatively brief, the danger to and from such a system is minimal; and 2) Their "upgrades" will invariably include DRM restricted upgrades to otherwise perfectly fine software. They will use this autoupdate crap to restrict users by secretly and quietly replacing functional software with crippleware.
Piss off. Give a the right to say "yay" or "nay" or I'll just have to setup a firewall to block any ports you seek to use. My system is MINE to use or misuse as I see fit. Period.
Shows how little you know of what really goes on in the military, regardless of how quickly we can (not) vanquish an enemy.
Every 3rd day. That was the combat mission profile for each aircrew out of Diego Garcia (B-52s) during Desert Storm. One day to mission plan (that is, plan a mission that we knew damn well we wouldn't actually fly - it would ALWAYS change in flight and new targets designated), one day to fly the mission (13 hours was the shortest mission I flew on, 16 the longest), and one day off. What went on in the off time? That means the evening after mission planning and on the day off. Some of us rode mountain bikes all over the island (commanders and peons included), spent a few hours in the gym, snorkeled at the beach, rented a small Boston Whaler for a few hours, or, as happened with a distressing number of slobs...sat in quarters playing tetris and similar games on gameboys (new at that time).
If you are a ground pounder grunt, you don't get the luxurious free time that I mention. If you are an Air Force member, you get cush time and DO spend your time not fighting, reading mags, browsing the web (there was no web to browse of any note back then).
Those guys in Britain during that war had the same sort of profile as we did on Diego Garcia. Their time off, however, was spent in great British pubs, cruising shops, taking in the sites, etc. Commanders included.
You. Know. Nothing.
I believe that the projected time when Andromeda galaxy collides with our Milky Way (they ARE headed for collision) is around 100 million years hence (correction anyone?). This collision will induce a profusion of star formations and may end up ejecting our star/solar system out of the galaxy entirely. Or, we may end up in the Andromeda galaxy as it moves on its merry way, or...
In any case, the lights are scheduled to burst anew in a plethora of star formation in the nearish future. Of course, several BILLION years later, the trend remains as mentioned.