Allrighty then...Maybe I shouldn't have used "prior art" in that context, but I did include the "somesuch". In any event, how can SCO proceed on a claim of a trade secret or breach of contract if the code in question already exists? Isn't that the point - "Show us your code, Darl, so we can compare it to any other extant versions? If the checksums match, yuo are teh winner!!1!"
If the result of the evidentiary hearing is that there is no code, there's no trial, right? So basically, it's put-up-or-shut-up time for Darl & Co., right?
GTRacer
- Not consumed by SCO/Linux/GPL implications, as others may be
Re:The part I do not understand...
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...nobody can take the software, change it, and then sell it as their own.
Yeah, but IIRC, Darl is claiming someone took SCO IP, stuck it in Linux code, and distributed it as GPL, when in fact the code wasn't supposed to have been released. SCO then sued a bunch of Linux users.
IBM called shenanigans, and one objective of the upcoming trial is to have SCO show just what code they claim is theirs, and so other kernel coders have a chance to defeat the claim on prior art or somesuch.
I'm waiting for the complete Trilogy super-ultra-mega-platinum-special Edition boxset before I invest any more money in Sir Jackson's retirement fund...
GTRacer
- Saw all three theatrically on opening weekends
Most of the Quiznos ads are on my top 25 list, but that one is special. I don't know of it's the creepy-looking and just-hit-puberty-voice actor or the wolf nursing scene, but I love that one!
Stations in my area carried two versions - edited for daytime and uncut at night. What's next, the Director's Cut DVD with commentaries?
GTRacer
- Actually, a DVD of good commercials would be nice
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I'm bored.
Things you do in public are PUBLIC. Things you do in private are PRIVATE. It's pretty self-explanatory. The legal system and most people's moral compasses accept that privacy is important and protectable.
But at the same time, if you're in public (or sending something in public "view"), don't bitch when the public decides to take a look.
The "encrypt it" argument has nothing to do with hacking prowess. Mail you send passes through public hands at times. You put it in an envelope and *ZIP* it's private. Encryption is like an envelope for data. If someone opens it, they should understand that they're looking at something private.
You can sort-of do this in Windows, using a Send To shortcut. It all depends on the receiving program's ability to take its args as %1 %2 %3 etc.
You can also write a batch file to take the args in and pass them as needed.
IIRC, the CL-parameter deal is limited to 10 parameters/filenames. You could probably hack together a script that would take more files, dump the names to a textfile, and then run the textfile with your chosen app one line at a time...
...depends on how you view the offerings. Mike's asked-for $10k versus:
Microsoft certification training, an Xbox, an invitation to a technology festival at Redmond...
Where you are on the Windows-Linux continuum will dictate how you see this. Also, the trolling possibilities are just endless - "MCSE pwnx0rs!!!11", etc...
Gotta love that quote from Mr. Desler, though! Means to an end, indeed!
GTRacer
- Wouldn't mind an Xbox and a broadband pipe to play it on
Or even better, set up a nonstop course of low-difficulty songs with alternating footsteps, and then "box" while holding hand weights. As long as the steps are fairly alternated, you can get a pretty smooth workout top and bottom.
Trying to mix in uppercuts however, tends to cause misses because of the vertical weight shift.
Tell that to my legs...my calves and thighs are incredibly toned and solid after many moons of DDR and not much else exercise. I used to have the typical pasty flabby geek legs - now they're pasty beefcake geek legs!
GTRacer
- Also uses hand weights to balance out the toning
...I'm not too comfortable allowing my checking account info to be used with the RFID technology.
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing here - I don't want to use RFID + debit. I meant that I can already use ordinary pin-based debit at 97% of the places I spend money, so what does an RFID fob and a holding account get me?
I know I'm not a typical consumer, but I can debit my gas, most food purchases, movie tickets, groceries, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target. Games, video rentals, most mall store purchases, 7-11, Universal and Disney tickets, etc. I have on average, a dollar in my wallet for Cokes, only if I can't debit somewhere.
I HATE the credit card transaction process. The fact that ANY signature can be used...
Most places I debit offer a choice. Some don't and go straight for the sig. You could get a debit card that is debit-only, so that if they try to use it as credit, the POS will error out and you pay some other way.
The one place I care most about sig security is restaurants. I think the opportunity for Joe "Minimum Wage" Teen to fish for numbers and slips is just too high. However, many places are now putting transaction ID's or confirmation numbers instead of the full 16-digit card number on the slips.
Well, that, and I don't know how universal such an approach would be. Would BK join a "SpeedPass" program already used by Mickey D's?
And as far as support goes, debit card acceptance has really taken off. There are few places I go now that I have to pay with anything other than debit (or the debit card acting in check card mode).
One piece of plastic that I was already carrying, made more useful with the PIN Pad explosion. I don't have to remember fobs, dongles, or buttons.
I'd be curious to see how many Mobil SpeedPass holders pay some other way because they forgot the fob or out of habit...
...this is gonna work. Many of my local Mac D's installed the receivers for GM's version of Speedpass, and handed out informational flyers about setting up the accounts and using the fobs.
A month later, all of them has taken down the receivers and nary a word was said.
I think the central problem in this one example is that nobody wants to hand 10 bucks to a holding company to buy burgers on 49-cent Wednesday.
We want to use our debit cards like we do almost everywhere else.
GTRacer
- 1077, same as a cheese pizza and a soda...
Bigger than you think. Poppler, while not yet trademarked, is not a good idea. There's a problem with Popplers, you see, a tasty, delicious, succlent problem.
And it's guaranteed to bite you in the end if you go that route!
No no no...I understand the traditional research-patent-trial-filter-blockbuster-lather-ri nse-repeat cycle.
I'm just curious why people would think the pharmacos would pass on an unpatentable drug like Clioquinol purely because it's unpatentable. There's still lots of money, and great PR to be had if someone takes it to market and puts a real dent in Alzheimer's progress.
I mean, look at aspirin, or acetaminophen, or ibuprofen. Or Tagamet and its clones. Lots-o-dough!
GTRacer
- Profit motive and humanity are not always mutually exclusive
I'm not suggesting that they behave humanely...just that this is another way to fabulous wealth and great PR. I mean really, what's the practical difference between a billion dollars, give or take an order of magnitude? At some point, unless you're planning a shopping trip to Magrathea, the zeroes become insignificant!
GTRacer
- Would be happy with a thousandth of a percent of MS's total value
I know that the pharmacos live by their patents and that's why they're willing to spend billions on R&D for a single drug.
But what cost would there be in using this drug to treat Alzheimer's? Even if cheap clones were available, why not enter the market at an already-low price point? How many people have Alzheimer's? Times pills per day for a year, divided by clone makers equals a shit ton of money, right?
If I had a safe, easy cure for cancer in my lab, I'd sell it for 20 bucks a shot. I might not have a market forever but I bet the demand curve would be a big flat line all the way at the top while it lasts!
I imagine I can use an Imageon to upgrade my imaginary N-Gage. Need an image link...
Seriously, I wonder how the TapWave will do where the N-Gage abysmally failed. Yes I know the Tapper isn't a cellphone, but otherwise, they're competing for similar customers. Sidetalking on a Tapper?
IIRC, it's a situation in English/Aussie rugby/football where players on both sides form a "super-huddle" and try to shove the player with the ball in the desired direction.
I used to get Fox World (damn you ComCast!!) and was much clearer on rugby play. What's funny is that it always seemed that a scrum was a standoff, an odd choice of name for a programming process...the tension only broke when the ball was passed or stolen out of the scrum.
I did, and I incorrectly read your quote as being targeted at Google, as well as others. Your parent strongly implied Google was guilty of result-spamming, and I took your point as agreeing with him.
I apologise.
GTRacer
- RE:RTFA...Damned if you do, damed if you don't!
Funny, I call my trusty ol' RadioShack VoxClock 3 the "Alarm Clock of the Apocalypse" because of the thouroughly-annoying alarm tone. It isn't a buzzer, it's a fanfare-style deal that seems like psyops torture to me and my wife.
It has two alarms, and battery backup, etc. But it's DREADFULLY easy to deactivate the alarm instead of hitting Snooze. I need more than two hands to count the number of times I've been late because of it...
GTRacer
- If I have to lose a third of my life to sleep, can't we get some kind of subliminal entertainment going? I mean hell, sleep is dull!
Huh? Do you even use Google? Or did you misread your parent's post?
Google doesn't spam its own listings in return for ad bucks. They do occasionally throw in a "Sponsored Link" but those are always color-coded and usually off to the side of the main list.
What your parent is saying, and I can echo their sentiments, is that there are a million and one crap sites that are keyword-spamming the crawlers. Some really sell the product in question, but most seem to be stealing the review copy from other sites - I saw the exact same listing for a scrolly-mouse on 4 different sites, and none actually sold it.
Google has done an admirable job of staying above the corruption of ad revenue and sponsor pressure. Searching is usually effortless if you can be a little specific.
No, Google is not perfect and sometimes searching can be frustrating, especially when the keywords are necessarily common - "Help" and "Linux" come to mind. But I usually get useful info.
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If the result of the evidentiary hearing is that there is no code, there's no trial, right? So basically, it's put-up-or-shut-up time for Darl & Co., right?
GTRacer
- Not consumed by SCO/Linux/GPL implications, as others may be
Yeah, but IIRC, Darl is claiming someone took SCO IP, stuck it in Linux code, and distributed it as GPL, when in fact the code wasn't supposed to have been released. SCO then sued a bunch of Linux users.
IBM called shenanigans, and one objective of the upcoming trial is to have SCO show just what code they claim is theirs, and so other kernel coders have a chance to defeat the claim on prior art or somesuch.
GTRacer
- IANAL
I'm waiting for the complete Trilogy super-ultra-mega-platinum-special Edition boxset before I invest any more money in Sir Jackson's retirement fund...
GTRacer
- Saw all three theatrically on opening weekends
Most of the Quiznos ads are on my top 25 list, but that one is special. I don't know of it's the creepy-looking and just-hit-puberty-voice actor or the wolf nursing scene, but I love that one!
Stations in my area carried two versions - edited for daytime and uncut at night. What's next, the Director's Cut DVD with commentaries?
GTRacer
- Actually, a DVD of good commercials would be nice
Things you do in public are PUBLIC. Things you do in private are PRIVATE. It's pretty self-explanatory. The legal system and most people's moral compasses accept that privacy is important and protectable.
But at the same time, if you're in public (or sending something in public "view"), don't bitch when the public decides to take a look.
The "encrypt it" argument has nothing to do with hacking prowess. Mail you send passes through public hands at times. You put it in an envelope and *ZIP* it's private. Encryption is like an envelope for data. If someone opens it, they should understand that they're looking at something private.
GTRacer
- This is public
The unwinnable game you're looking for is 11982, I believe.
GTRacer
- Free FreeCell now, stupid Admin policies!
You can also write a batch file to take the args in and pass them as needed.
IIRC, the CL-parameter deal is limited to 10 parameters/filenames. You could probably hack together a script that would take more files, dump the names to a textfile, and then run the textfile with your chosen app one line at a time...
GTRacer
80% GUI, 20% CLI, 100% ME
Microsoft certification training, an Xbox, an invitation to a technology festival at Redmond...
Where you are on the Windows-Linux continuum will dictate how you see this. Also, the trolling possibilities are just endless - "MCSE pwnx0rs!!!11", etc...
Gotta love that quote from Mr. Desler, though! Means to an end, indeed!
GTRacer
- Wouldn't mind an Xbox and a broadband pipe to play it on
P2P, hashing, DRM, fingerprinting and spyware, diagonally from top right! Yay! What do I win?
GTRacer
- Oh yeah, more crap on my PC
Trying to mix in uppercuts however, tends to cause misses because of the vertical weight shift.
GTRacer
- Hey Yo Captain Jack!
Tell that to my legs...my calves and thighs are incredibly toned and solid after many moons of DDR and not much else exercise. I used to have the typical pasty flabby geek legs - now they're pasty beefcake geek legs!
GTRacer
- Also uses hand weights to balance out the toning
For the sake of discussion, how many different places can you use your Speedpass?
How many of these also accept debit or check cards?
Not trolling, I really want to understand!
GTRacer
- Nothing to see here...
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing here - I don't want to use RFID + debit. I meant that I can already use ordinary pin-based debit at 97% of the places I spend money, so what does an RFID fob and a holding account get me?
I know I'm not a typical consumer, but I can debit my gas, most food purchases, movie tickets, groceries, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Target. Games, video rentals, most mall store purchases, 7-11, Universal and Disney tickets, etc. I have on average, a dollar in my wallet for Cokes, only if I can't debit somewhere.
I HATE the credit card transaction process. The fact that ANY signature can be used...
Most places I debit offer a choice. Some don't and go straight for the sig. You could get a debit card that is debit-only, so that if they try to use it as credit, the POS will error out and you pay some other way.
The one place I care most about sig security is restaurants. I think the opportunity for Joe "Minimum Wage" Teen to fish for numbers and slips is just too high. However, many places are now putting transaction ID's or confirmation numbers instead of the full 16-digit card number on the slips.
GTRacer
- huh huh huh, he said "POS"...
And as far as support goes, debit card acceptance has really taken off. There are few places I go now that I have to pay with anything other than debit (or the debit card acting in check card mode).
One piece of plastic that I was already carrying, made more useful with the PIN Pad explosion. I don't have to remember fobs, dongles, or buttons.
I'd be curious to see how many Mobil SpeedPass holders pay some other way because they forgot the fob or out of habit...
GTRacer
- I'm Lovin' It
A month later, all of them has taken down the receivers and nary a word was said. I think the central problem in this one example is that nobody wants to hand 10 bucks to a holding company to buy burgers on 49-cent Wednesday.
We want to use our debit cards like we do almost everywhere else.
GTRacer
- 1077, same as a cheese pizza and a soda...
And it's guaranteed to bite you in the end if you go that route!
GTRacer
- Go MG!
I'm just curious why people would think the pharmacos would pass on an unpatentable drug like Clioquinol purely because it's unpatentable. There's still lots of money, and great PR to be had if someone takes it to market and puts a real dent in Alzheimer's progress.
I mean, look at aspirin, or acetaminophen, or ibuprofen. Or Tagamet and its clones. Lots-o-dough!
GTRacer
- Profit motive and humanity are not always mutually exclusive
GTRacer
- Would be happy with a thousandth of a percent of MS's total value
I know that the pharmacos live by their patents and that's why they're willing to spend billions on R&D for a single drug.
But what cost would there be in using this drug to treat Alzheimer's? Even if cheap clones were available, why not enter the market at an already-low price point? How many people have Alzheimer's? Times pills per day for a year, divided by clone makers equals a shit ton of money, right?
If I had a safe, easy cure for cancer in my lab, I'd sell it for 20 bucks a shot. I might not have a market forever but I bet the demand curve would be a big flat line all the way at the top while it lasts!
GTRacer
- Didn't take organic chem...
GTRacer
- SSSSSSSSsSsSsssss...*gasp*
Seriously, I wonder how the TapWave will do where the N-Gage abysmally failed. Yes I know the Tapper isn't a cellphone, but otherwise, they're competing for similar customers. Sidetalking on a Tapper?
GTRacer
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I used to get Fox World (damn you ComCast!!) and was much clearer on rugby play. What's funny is that it always seemed that a scrum was a standoff, an odd choice of name for a programming process...the tension only broke when the ball was passed or stolen out of the scrum.
Or maybe not.
GTRacer
- Plays footy of a different ilk
I did, and I incorrectly read your quote as being targeted at Google, as well as others. Your parent strongly implied Google was guilty of result-spamming, and I took your point as agreeing with him.
I apologise.
GTRacer
- RE:RTFA...Damned if you do, damed if you don't!
It has two alarms, and battery backup, etc. But it's DREADFULLY easy to deactivate the alarm instead of hitting Snooze. I need more than two hands to count the number of times I've been late because of it...
GTRacer
- If I have to lose a third of my life to sleep, can't we get some kind of subliminal entertainment going? I mean hell, sleep is dull!
Google doesn't spam its own listings in return for ad bucks. They do occasionally throw in a "Sponsored Link" but those are always color-coded and usually off to the side of the main list.
What your parent is saying, and I can echo their sentiments, is that there are a million and one crap sites that are keyword-spamming the crawlers. Some really sell the product in question, but most seem to be stealing the review copy from other sites - I saw the exact same listing for a scrolly-mouse on 4 different sites, and none actually sold it.
Google has done an admirable job of staying above the corruption of ad revenue and sponsor pressure. Searching is usually effortless if you can be a little specific.
No, Google is not perfect and sometimes searching can be frustrating, especially when the keywords are necessarily common - "Help" and "Linux" come to mind. But I usually get useful info.
And Google Cache is your friend at work!
GTRacer
- Time to ego-surf!