I see lots of spyware removal recommendations. This one, SpyBot Search and Destroy, is fantastic and free. I carry CDs of it around and give it to everyone I work with.
Why doesn't NASA Open Source this rover code? Not for the outside world to contribute to the development, but for review. The collective intelligence of the open source community could certainly provide productive and insightful reviews. Perhaps problems such as file management could be avoided. At the very least the open souce community would be able to document weak points in the design that could be improved or avoided in production use.
Its not like this is proprietary, for-profit code. I helped paid for it. Its for the good of all mankind.
If nothing else, I would love the chance to learn something from NASA. The rover code might be as beautiful as the images coming back (or not!).
Enron is a perfect example of my point! It was down a sharp 33% *before* the accounting scandals broke. The price move was indicator of bad news coming and certainly not good news coming. My point is not whether individual investors are stupid or smart with their money. Its about reading the market as an indicator of future direction. Chart bond prices versus the CPI sometime, see which leads.
I know I will feel better about SCO losing out when I start to see a prolonged slide in their stock price. That will mean the market is betting SCO to lose. Until then, I have to wonder what good trick they have up their sleeve that is causing the market to bet to win.
Exactly! Capital and Equity markets are usually good long term forecasters. I am not sure if it is sound analysis or self fullfilling prophecies, either way markets can be used as a tool to indicate or gauge future events or outcomes. This is the reason the DoD mused about establishing a futures market for terrorism events. Its not that markets exactly predict future events, but rather they give odds on the outcome. Those that have money spend resources to research the likely outcomes (or future direction) of events. They then invest where they can achieve the best reward for a tolerable risk. In other words, get the best odds on making money.
What this means to all of us who do not invest in SCO, is that because SCO's future depends so heavily on the outcome of this suit and whole copy right claims affair, we can use the value and direction of SCO's stock price as a very considered indicator of the likelihood of their success.
"What have WE forgotten?" then means if investors think more highly of SCO's chances than most of the Slashdot crowd, what have WE the Slashdot crowd forgotten to consider in this matter?
This sums it up. SCO is suing IBM for breach of contract, nothing more, nothing less. What dows Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman et al have to do with this contract? did they sign it?
Civil litigation is not always about achieving equitible settlement. Its very often about intimidation, marketing, public relations, bragging rights, money, etc. To achieve these goals lawyers regularly entangle as many related entities as possible. Its FUD and intimidation.
A few years ago I changed jobs. My old employer sued me, my new employer, and a corporate officer of my new employer. They sued with an overly broad interpretation of violating a non-compete clause I had signed with them. (They claimed any other job in computer programming was competing.) They knew they would not win the case and they sued my new employer who did not sign the non-compete contract. In the end the judge rendered summary judgement and dismissed their case. BUT-- Guess what? Mission accomplished. I had to hire a lawyer and go to court. So did my new employer and its officer. Ever try to buy a house when you are being sued? Banks don't like to lend money to people being sued. Now other employees of my old company were scared to leave and my new employer had financial incentive not to hire any more of my former co-workers.
SCO is undertaking a similar but grander plan. They are doing some discovery, I am sure, but they also want to intimidate Linux developers, waste their time, and cause them to run up legal bills. They want to do the same for Linux companies. Thus, providing incentives to "see it there way". It also serves to muddy the public reputation of GNU/Linux itself, its developers, and Linux companies. The later provides a clear marketing reason to pay SCO license fees. All of this also drags out the case, keeping the Linux FUD out there for people to see for a longer period of time. Which of course provides reasons to settle or license up.
SCO's tatics here are the norm, I would expect more of the same in the future.
I agree. For all the talk of damage and problems, to date most worms have been what I would consider mostly harmless because they can be removed and the hole patched. Wait until one comes along with a "format c:\" on a little time delay. Or maybe look for important files like databases and start randomly corrupting them.
We have not yet seen a truely damaging worm. If a few reboots and some network congestion can cause this many problems, a truely destructive virus could probably cause worldwide economic turmoil.
Or did he really mean Windows Patches? Just to ensure inoperability with open source software. One could image probing for ways to "embrace and extend" protocols to cause problems for oss.
But surely MS has good intentions as always,right?
He is writting his own modern version of the Gettysburg Address, "..that this nation, under God, shall have a new dearth of freedom - and that this government of the Corporations, by the Corporations, for the Corporations shall not perish from the earth..."
Here are the local TV stations for St Louis. It probably a big "who cares?" to them. They seem to like stories about lost puppies and sick kittens more than real news.
http://www.ksdk.com (NBC #1 in ratings) http://www.kmov.com (CBS #2 in ratings) http://www.fox2ktvi.com (Fox #3 in ratings, good investigative reporters) (ABC affiliate gave up on local news)
Tack on Charters accounting scandals for more ammo.
Anyone think there are enough Slashdotter's out there to buy 51% of SCO and force them to drop the lawsuit? Probably not. Too bad, because SCO's market cap is not much in relative terms.
Does resocketing a new BIOS chip constitute a DCMA violation? Is so, this would not be legal in the US and soon in the EU. Of course, that never stopped anyone. Trouble is how do you trade silicon on a P2P network.
Ah, Logicon. They are very familiar with bilcking very governments out of our hard earned tax dollars. As with most large contractors, they are all about taking the most money they can from the government. Providing a useful service in return is just an accident if it happens.
I had PhoenixDSL/NorthPoint for a year and they
never once sent me a bill. Not hard to figure
out why they went bankrupt. I was switched to
Telocity 2 weeks ago, and bingo a bill for back
services. Of course, I am in with dial-up because
Northpoint just screwed me. Nice, a $500 bill
and now no service.
A year ago I did get my rebate from Northpoint.
I had to call them every single day for almost
5 weeks. Everyday it was some bullsh*t about, we'll check into it and call you. I guess now that they are bankrupt even that tatic will not work.
I can guess why they went bankrupt, I had service for 10.5 months before they sent me the first bill for service.
Slashdot Mirror
I see lots of spyware removal recommendations. This one, SpyBot Search and Destroy , is fantastic and free. I carry CDs of it around and give it to everyone I work with.
Are you referring to this image ? That dark streak and "puddle" are a shadow from a contact prob on the arm.
Why doesn't NASA Open Source this rover code? Not for the outside world to contribute to the development, but for review. The collective intelligence of the open source community could certainly provide productive and insightful reviews. Perhaps problems such as file management could be avoided. At the very least the open souce community would be able to document weak points in the design that could be improved or avoided in production use.
Its not like this is proprietary, for-profit code. I helped paid for it. Its for the good of all mankind.
If nothing else, I would love the chance to learn something from NASA. The rover code might be as beautiful as the images coming back (or not!).
I have already received half a dozen spam offering to enhance my performance with supersolid Helium-4.
Get Signorey Weaver and bring on the Alien mother.
Enron is a perfect example of my point! It was down a sharp 33% *before* the accounting scandals broke. The price move was indicator of bad news coming and certainly not good news coming. My point is not whether individual investors are stupid or smart with their money. Its about reading the market as an indicator of future direction. Chart bond prices versus the CPI sometime, see which leads.
I know I will feel better about SCO losing out when I start to see a prolonged slide in their stock price. That will mean the market is betting SCO to lose. Until then, I have to wonder what good trick they have up their sleeve that is causing the market to bet to win.
Exactly! Capital and Equity markets are usually good long term forecasters. I am not sure if it is sound analysis or self fullfilling prophecies, either way markets can be used as a tool to indicate or gauge future events or outcomes. This is the reason the DoD mused about establishing a futures market for terrorism events. Its not that markets exactly predict future events, but rather they give odds on the outcome. Those that have money spend resources to research the likely outcomes (or future direction) of events. They then invest where they can achieve the best reward for a tolerable risk. In other words, get the best odds on making money.
What this means to all of us who do not invest in SCO, is that because SCO's future depends so heavily on the outcome of this suit and whole copy right claims affair, we can use the value and direction of SCO's stock price as a very considered indicator of the likelihood of their success.
"What have WE forgotten?" then means if investors think more highly of SCO's chances than most of the Slashdot crowd, what have WE the Slashdot crowd forgotten to consider in this matter?
This sums it up. SCO is suing IBM for breach of contract, nothing more, nothing less. What dows Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman et al have to do with this contract? did they sign it?
Civil litigation is not always about achieving equitible settlement. Its very often about intimidation, marketing, public relations, bragging rights, money, etc. To achieve these goals lawyers regularly entangle as many related entities as possible. Its FUD and intimidation.
A few years ago I changed jobs. My old employer sued me, my new employer, and a corporate officer of my new employer. They sued with an overly broad interpretation of violating a non-compete clause I had signed with them. (They claimed any other job in computer programming was competing.) They knew they would not win the case and they sued my new employer who did not sign the non-compete contract. In the end the judge rendered summary judgement and dismissed their case. BUT-- Guess what? Mission accomplished. I had to hire a lawyer and go to court. So did my new employer and its officer. Ever try to buy a house when you are being sued? Banks don't like to lend money to people being sued. Now other employees of my old company were scared to leave and my new employer had financial incentive not to hire any more of my former co-workers.
SCO is undertaking a similar but grander plan. They are doing some discovery, I am sure, but they also want to intimidate Linux developers, waste their time, and cause them to run up legal bills. They want to do the same for Linux companies.
Thus, providing incentives to "see it there way". It also serves to muddy the public reputation of GNU/Linux itself, its developers, and Linux companies. The later provides a clear marketing reason to pay SCO license fees. All of this also drags out the case, keeping the Linux FUD out there for people to see for a longer period of time. Which of course provides reasons to settle or license up.
SCO's tatics here are the norm, I would expect more of the same in the future.
Better make sure my Belkin cables aren't hijacking my electrons every eight hours too.
I just threw my $85 Belkin spam device in the trash.
I sure hope my Belkin cables aren't diverting my electrons too.
I am off to buy the Linksys I should have purchased the first time.
Later, Belkin !!!
Sorry, Rush is in rehab this month. The Ditto Heads are without their brain for a while.
Geez, if this is the state of industry I suddenly feel like we should all be voting via punch card.
I agree. For all the talk of damage and problems, to date most worms have been what I would consider mostly harmless because they can be removed and the hole patched. Wait until one comes along with a "format c:\" on a little time delay. Or maybe look for important files like databases and start randomly corrupting them.
We have not yet seen a truely damaging worm. If a few reboots and some network congestion can cause this many problems, a truely destructive virus could probably cause worldwide economic turmoil.
Or did he really mean Windows Patches? Just to ensure inoperability with open source software. One could image probing for ways to "embrace and extend" protocols to cause problems for oss.
But surely MS has good intentions as always,right?
What do you expect, we elected "W" as president?
He is writting his own modern version of the Gettysburg Address, "..that this nation, under God, shall have a new dearth of freedom - and that this government of the Corporations, by the Corporations, for the Corporations shall not perish from the earth..."
(Original here.)
Here are the local TV stations for St Louis. It probably a big "who cares?" to them. They seem to like stories about lost puppies and sick kittens more than real news.
http://www.ksdk.com (NBC #1 in ratings)
http://www.kmov.com (CBS #2 in ratings)
http://www.fox2ktvi.com (Fox #3 in ratings, good investigative reporters)
(ABC affiliate gave up on local news)
Tack on Charters accounting scandals for more ammo.
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, sue.
Anyone think there are enough Slashdotter's out there to buy 51% of SCO and force them to drop the
lawsuit? Probably not. Too bad, because SCO's market cap is not much in relative terms.
With all the money in M$ bank account, where are all the laywers? Shouldn't admitting gross negligence bring a class action lawsuit?
Does resocketing a new BIOS chip constitute a DCMA violation? Is so, this would not be legal in the US and soon in the EU. Of course, that never stopped anyone. Trouble is how do you trade silicon on a P2P network.
Due to the competitive licenses by MS forces on
OEMS, California is probably paying for 270,000
MSSQL licenses, even though they want to run Oracle.
Ah, Logicon. They are very familiar with bilcking very governments out of our hard earned tax dollars.
As with most large contractors, they are all about
taking the most money they can from the government.
Providing a useful service in return is just an
accident if it happens.
The real problem is open relays. SAs need to secure their relays. We do not need the government to widen their war on freedom any further.
If you want a spam filter, try spamassassin. It has been 99.8% effective on the 60-80 spam a day I get.
I had PhoenixDSL/NorthPoint for a year and they
never once sent me a bill. Not hard to figure
out why they went bankrupt. I was switched to
Telocity 2 weeks ago, and bingo a bill for back
services. Of course, I am in with dial-up because
Northpoint just screwed me. Nice, a $500 bill
and now no service.
A year ago I did get my rebate from Northpoint.
I had to call them every single day for almost
5 weeks. Everyday it was some bullsh*t about, we'll check into it and call you. I guess now that they are bankrupt even that tatic will not work.
I can guess why they went bankrupt, I had service for 10.5 months before they sent me the first bill for service.