the CAN-SPAM law specifies that hijacking other's computers in order to send spam is illegal. That's what his program was meant to do. This means the program was illegal to begin with.
CAN-spam outlaws certian behaviors. It does now outlaw any tools.
Laws outlaw using guns in particular ways, for example, inside of a convenience store. But those same laws do not outlaw guns themselves. (Note to flamers... I'm not making any arguments about the merits of gun ownership.)
But
Basillisk II
emulates the 68K processor, not the PowerPC processor.
I think what the ancestor post was trying to say was that demoing a PowerPC emulator running on x86, at indecent speed, would be far less unimpressive.
How many furlongs wide and high was it? They failed to give useful dimensions of the thing. Geez, you would at least think that they would show the picture of it next to some reference object such as a Quarter, or Ball Point Pen, or [i]just about to be[/i] underneath the tire of a truck, or something to give a true picture of its size.
RIAA-approved music in compressed form costs about $200/GB. So it would cost $4000 to fill up an iPod.
non-RIAA-approved music, in compressed form, costs about $0/GB. So it would cost $0 to fill up an iPod.
If the RIAA would wake up and realize that it now costs virtually zero to copy bit patterns all over the planet, they would change their business model. Of course, it is easier to buy legislators and try to keep the old artificial scarcity model.
Yeah, you can fill it with legal garage-band crap techno. Nobody really does that.
I don't. You don't. Probably someone does. So what? Don't knock someone else's choices.
'SCO maintains that it has been a paragon of virtue and transparency throughout, and that everything it said publicly and privately is true. But, and this should come as no surprise, it won't had over the documents BayStar wants to see. It says this is to "protect the confidential and proprietary nature of the information" and to "avoid fostering speculation regardng its SCOsource business".'
I love that one. Everything we said in public and in private is true -- even though they are contradictory.
SCO must protect the confidential "IP" in the documents, and therefore cannot let Baystar see the documents. After all, Baystar might discover SCO's proprietary trade secret business model of saying one thing to the press and to prospective investors; but saying something else in court filings and SEC filings.
Today IBMSNBCBS, owners of Fox/ABCNN, merged with CokeWarner McMicroSonyDisneySoft, completing the last possible corporate merger that had remained on planet Earth.
Unlike the food example, where bad food could kill you, a computer virus in your home machine won't,
I think you miss the issue completely.
Whether something will kill you is irrelevant.
Telling everyone that the Crashdown Cafe has food poisoning is not going to cut into a major corporation's profits.
Telling everyone that their system has a major vulnerability that will cause widespread problems and losses for many people CAN damage a major corporation's profits. Therefore the software vulnerability should not be disclosed. Whether the vulnerability kills you is irrelevant.
Of course we should be informed. We as consumers have the right to be informed of decisions that affect the way we consume the services/products being offered.
We should only have the right to be informed when a major corporations profits are not affected.
Hence, it is okay to inform everyone that Joe's restruant has food poisoning. No major corp's profits are at stake.
A software vulnerability that may adversly affect millions of people, and businesses, but will damage a major corporation's reputation and profit; this is a thing that we should not have a right to know about.
You must weight the relative importance of the consumers' health vs. a major corporations' reputation and, most importantly, profits. I think this rule strikes the right balance.
As
you can see here
, Microsoft chanrges a $4,999 US per processor(retail) for standard edition, and $19,999 US per processor (retail) for SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
If I go to install on a hyperthreading system, is the software going to go ahead and install, or does the software insist on "charging" me for a second cpu? i.e. what does Microsoft do so that I can pay for a one cpu license and install onto my one cpu hyperthreading system? Does the software detect that it is a single processor with hyperthreading?
Microsoft is freeing up its legal team for the upcomming patent wars. They don't want their legal team tied up in pointless and counterproductive litigation which does not have the effect of destroying open source.
At one time, it was worth fighting companies like Opera. Bleed their cash. Steal their ideas. Sabatoge their product, etc.
But now, it is much higher priority for the legal team to be ready for the new patent wars.
marginally OT: New Groklaw article
on
SCO Caught Copying
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
FYI... There is a
new article
at
groklaw
describing a ruling in the Canopy vs. Novell case.
For those who don't know, this is yet another case where Canopy (parent company of SCO) says that what is written in the contract isn't as important as the oral agreements they made, and that what the parties agreed to is the opposite of what the written contract says they agreed to.
New Software announcement from SCUM
on
SCO Caught Copying
·
· Score: 5, Funny
SCUM announced today the latest version of their Lawsuit Generator Wizard package.
The updated version now has a web enabled user interface.
"Using our patented lawsuit generator, companies can quickly and efficiently file numerous complaints without leaving their computer." said Blame Snowell.
"People can now generate lawsuits from anywhere that has Internet access", said Darn McNugget, "even from non extradition treaty countries."
The new version has a simpler user interface than previous versions.
The user answers a series of simple questions.
Many questions are multiple choice.
For instance: "Do you want to sue a [x] current or [_] former [x] customer or [_] business partner?
Do you have an existing contract to use against them?
You can specify a defendant, or the software can randomly assign a defendant.
Administrivia such as filing the documents with the court, sending copies to the defendant's lawyers, and generating the certificate of service is handled automatically.
The Professional Edition will generate motions and memorandums in support of those motions.
New modules in the updated package include the Affirmative Defense generator which automatically answers each of the defendant's counterclaims.
For particularly unfavorable counterclaims, a motion to dismiss is automatically generated.
In the Professional Edition, a new Case Law History module has been added.
This module can find marginally relevant case law and then selectively quote favorable sounding portions using the selective quoting tool.
Industry rumors have been circulating that a new add on module is in the works and was expected to be released last quarter.
Lack of this module has apparently been a significant setback to the company.
Company officials have been unusually quiet about this.
Sources suggest that the rumored package is a Lie Management add on, which can also run stand alone.
It has been rumored that the core engine was licensed from Microshaft.
Company officials declined to comment.
Anonymous sources told us on condition of remaining unprosecuted, that the Lie Management module can manage competing bundles of lies that are told to multiple parties.
The lie consistency checker helps keep stories straight, preventing a runaway lie cascade of escalating magnitude.
A bit of truth, from a large predefined gallery, can be mixed in to give documents a professional sense of credibility.
"This is a perfect example of how corporations can benefit from proprietary software over open source software" said analyst Lorra DiDdlings.
Also updated is the Case Scheduling module which generates motions to unnecessarily delay the case.
If multiple cases are concurrently in progress, the software is now able to coordinate the motions into a deadlock such that each case depends upon the outcome of the other cases.
Company officials confirmed the development of a companion product, the SEC Filing wizard.
This separate package will fully integrate with the Lawsuit Ganerator if both are installed together.
Pricing and the expected release date were not available.
Analyst Robber Pretenderle said "I give SCUM a 99% chance of winning their lawsuits based on their statements alone."
The company's stock rose quickly on the news. (symbol: SCUM)
About SCUM.
SCUM, the owner of all software operating systems, is the leading provider of business lawsuits worldwide.
Suing and threatening customers and business partners in over 86 countries, SCUM provides a full range of litigation fiascos.
The recognized leader worldwide in providing lawsuit protection licenses,
SCUM has been in business for over 25 years.
SCUM, Lie, and Lawsuit are trademarks of The SCUM Grope. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
This story contains forward looking statements.
Investors are advised that some forward looking statements may look further out than the expected life of the company.
Any similarity to the truth is unintentional and purely coincidental.
the phone system itself is responsible for some misdials. The original analog phone system design requirement was for high availability, i.e. the system is always up and running.
Just to point out that the when the phone system was designed, they had no term "high availability". It is a machine. They built it well. Just as everyone who built any kind of machine at the time.
The term "high availability" wasn't invented (due to lack of necessity) until people began attempting to run web servers on Windows.
Necessity is the mother of invention. (Lazyness is the father.)
This is/. We know you reinstall your OS every 2 days to get the latest kernel/driver/optimization.
Reinstalling Windows is a major disruption.
Compiling a new kernel and rebooting is not a major disruption.
If you argue that a reboot is a major disruption, then it is only fair to point out how much Microsoft makes you reboot -- without getting the benefit of a new kernel.
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Who am I supposed to not buy from? Wal-Mart or the RIAA members?
Which am I supposed to hate?
The people who make the tools that enabled this reprehensible activity should be jailed.
But then who would I turn to for an upgrade, now that all of the compiler writers are in jail?
the CAN-SPAM law specifies that hijacking other's computers in order to send spam is illegal. That's what his program was meant to do. This means the program was illegal to begin with.
CAN-spam outlaws certian behaviors. It does now outlaw any tools.
Laws outlaw using guns in particular ways, for example, inside of a convenience store. But those same laws do not outlaw guns themselves. (Note to flamers... I'm not making any arguments about the merits of gun ownership.)
Nevermind.
Instead of Basillisk II, try PearPC .
But Basillisk II emulates the 68K processor, not the PowerPC processor.
I think what the ancestor post was trying to say was that demoing a PowerPC emulator running on x86, at indecent speed, would be far less unimpressive.
It is called longhorn because you're really going to get screwed this time.
How many furlongs wide and high was it? They failed to give useful dimensions of the thing. Geez, you would at least think that they would show the picture of it next to some reference object such as a Quarter, or Ball Point Pen, or [i]just about to be[/i] underneath the tire of a truck, or something to give a true picture of its size.
RIAA-approved music in compressed form costs about $200/GB. So it would cost $4000 to fill up an iPod.
non-RIAA-approved music, in compressed form, costs about $0/GB. So it would cost $0 to fill up an iPod.
If the RIAA would wake up and realize that it now costs virtually zero to copy bit patterns all over the planet, they would change their business model. Of course, it is easier to buy legislators and try to keep the old artificial scarcity model.
Yeah, you can fill it with legal garage-band crap techno. Nobody really does that.
I don't. You don't. Probably someone does. So what? Don't knock someone else's choices.
'SCO maintains that it has been a paragon of virtue and transparency throughout, and that everything it said publicly and privately is true. But, and this should come as no surprise, it won't had over the documents BayStar wants to see. It says this is to "protect the confidential and proprietary nature of the information" and to "avoid fostering speculation regardng its SCOsource business".'
I love that one. Everything we said in public and in private is true -- even though they are contradictory.
SCO must protect the confidential "IP" in the documents, and therefore cannot let Baystar see the documents. After all, Baystar might discover SCO's proprietary trade secret business model of saying one thing to the press and to prospective investors; but saying something else in court filings and SEC filings.
Today IBMSNBCBS, owners of Fox/ABCNN, merged with CokeWarner McMicroSonyDisneySoft, completing the last possible corporate merger that had remained on planet Earth.
Just one step closer to CocaWarner McMicroSonySoft
How about CokeWarner McMicroSonyDisneySoft.
MSNBCBS, a division of ABC
You mean, a division of Fox/ABCNN.
Unlike the food example, where bad food could kill you, a computer virus in your home machine won't,
I think you miss the issue completely.
Whether something will kill you is irrelevant.
Telling everyone that the Crashdown Cafe has food poisoning is not going to cut into a major corporation's profits.
Telling everyone that their system has a major vulnerability that will cause widespread problems and losses for many people CAN damage a major corporation's profits. Therefore the software vulnerability should not be disclosed. Whether the vulnerability kills you is irrelevant.
I hope that helps clear things up.
Of course we should be informed. We as consumers have the right to be informed of decisions that affect the way we consume the services/products being offered.
We should only have the right to be informed when a major corporations profits are not affected.
Hence, it is okay to inform everyone that Joe's restruant has food poisoning. No major corp's profits are at stake.
A software vulnerability that may adversly affect millions of people, and businesses, but will damage a major corporation's reputation and profit; this is a thing that we should not have a right to know about.
You must weight the relative importance of the consumers' health vs. a major corporations' reputation and, most importantly, profits. I think this rule strikes the right balance.
I hope that this helps clear things up.
As you can see here , Microsoft chanrges a $4,999 US per processor(retail) for standard edition, and $19,999 US per processor (retail) for SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
If I go to install on a hyperthreading system, is the software going to go ahead and install, or does the software insist on "charging" me for a second cpu? i.e. what does Microsoft do so that I can pay for a one cpu license and install onto my one cpu hyperthreading system? Does the software detect that it is a single processor with hyperthreading?
Maybe the additional time is required to insure compatibility with the US legal system?
Fewer geographic locations to hide, means spam is easier to block.
How the Open Source world treats SCO...
First they fight you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they ignore you.
Then you lose.
I would say we're at stage 3 right now, just like with the Ghandi quote applied to Microsoft vs. Open Source.
Are you people seriously telling me, that a suitable punishment for spamming is being fucked up the arse?
He can always tell his cellmate that he wants to "opt out".
Microsoft is freeing up its legal team for the upcomming patent wars. They don't want their legal team tied up in pointless and counterproductive litigation which does not have the effect of destroying open source.
At one time, it was worth fighting companies like Opera. Bleed their cash. Steal their ideas. Sabatoge their product, etc.
But now, it is much higher priority for the legal team to be ready for the new patent wars.
FYI... There is a new article at groklaw describing a ruling in the Canopy vs. Novell case.
For those who don't know, this is yet another case where Canopy (parent company of SCO) says that what is written in the contract isn't as important as the oral agreements they made, and that what the parties agreed to is the opposite of what the written contract says they agreed to.
SCUM announced today the latest version of their Lawsuit Generator Wizard package. The updated version now has a web enabled user interface. "Using our patented lawsuit generator, companies can quickly and efficiently file numerous complaints without leaving their computer." said Blame Snowell. "People can now generate lawsuits from anywhere that has Internet access", said Darn McNugget, "even from non extradition treaty countries."
The new version has a simpler user interface than previous versions. The user answers a series of simple questions. Many questions are multiple choice.
For instance: "Do you want to sue a [x] current or [_] former [x] customer or [_] business partner? Do you have an existing contract to use against them?
You can specify a defendant, or the software can randomly assign a defendant. Administrivia such as filing the documents with the court, sending copies to the defendant's lawyers, and generating the certificate of service is handled automatically. The Professional Edition will generate motions and memorandums in support of those motions.
New modules in the updated package include the Affirmative Defense generator which automatically answers each of the defendant's counterclaims. For particularly unfavorable counterclaims, a motion to dismiss is automatically generated. In the Professional Edition, a new Case Law History module has been added. This module can find marginally relevant case law and then selectively quote favorable sounding portions using the selective quoting tool.
Industry rumors have been circulating that a new add on module is in the works and was expected to be released last quarter. Lack of this module has apparently been a significant setback to the company. Company officials have been unusually quiet about this. Sources suggest that the rumored package is a Lie Management add on, which can also run stand alone. It has been rumored that the core engine was licensed from Microshaft. Company officials declined to comment.
Anonymous sources told us on condition of remaining unprosecuted, that the Lie Management module can manage competing bundles of lies that are told to multiple parties. The lie consistency checker helps keep stories straight, preventing a runaway lie cascade of escalating magnitude. A bit of truth, from a large predefined gallery, can be mixed in to give documents a professional sense of credibility.
"This is a perfect example of how corporations can benefit from proprietary software over open source software" said analyst Lorra DiDdlings.
Also updated is the Case Scheduling module which generates motions to unnecessarily delay the case. If multiple cases are concurrently in progress, the software is now able to coordinate the motions into a deadlock such that each case depends upon the outcome of the other cases.
Company officials confirmed the development of a companion product, the SEC Filing wizard. This separate package will fully integrate with the Lawsuit Ganerator if both are installed together. Pricing and the expected release date were not available.
Analyst Robber Pretenderle said "I give SCUM a 99% chance of winning their lawsuits based on their statements alone." The company's stock rose quickly on the news. (symbol: SCUM)
About SCUM.
SCUM, the owner of all software operating systems, is the leading provider of business lawsuits worldwide. Suing and threatening customers and business partners in over 86 countries, SCUM provides a full range of litigation fiascos. The recognized leader worldwide in providing lawsuit protection licenses, SCUM has been in business for over 25 years.
SCUM, Lie, and Lawsuit are trademarks of The SCUM Grope. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
This story contains forward looking statements. Investors are advised that some forward looking statements may look further out than the expected life of the company.
Any similarity to the truth is unintentional and purely coincidental.
the phone system itself is responsible for some misdials. The original analog phone system design requirement was for high availability, i.e. the system is always up and running.
Just to point out that the when the phone system was designed, they had no term "high availability". It is a machine. They built it well. Just as everyone who built any kind of machine at the time.
The term "high availability" wasn't invented (due to lack of necessity) until people began attempting to run web servers on Windows.
Necessity is the mother of invention. (Lazyness is the father.)
This is /. We know you reinstall your OS every 2 days to get the latest kernel/driver/optimization.
Reinstalling Windows is a major disruption.
Compiling a new kernel and rebooting is not a major disruption.
If you argue that a reboot is a major disruption, then it is only fair to point out how much Microsoft makes you reboot -- without getting the benefit of a new kernel.
Whoever buys SCO still has all of the lawsuits, and IBM's counterclaims to deal with.