Although, it's perfectly understandable that people might jump 100 feet out of a gondola to escape a conflagartion like that mere dozens of feet above their heads.
Yeah, but fossil fuels have already have energy stored in them -- from nuclear fusion. All those nice dinosaurs ate all those stinkey swamp plants that used the light from the Sun to grow.
Am I incorrect in understanding that this is for 64-bit implementations of linux?
If so, how can SCO demand that we give them money for code that's distributed but that 99% of linux users ARE NOT USING?
This is exactly why they want you to sign your life away by signing a NDA before they will show you the code. They want to use this to bludgeon people into settling BEFORE IT GETS TO COURT. They are not interested in legitmately rectifying the situation.
From the article: "We could have programmed it to lose sometimes, to make humans happy," he told New Scientist. "But to say 'the automaton can not be defeated' has a nice ring to it."
"Actually, there are rumors that safety systems that would have prevented such widespread failure were running on Windows and were down because of blaster. "
If those rumors are true, then the worm didn't cause the power failures, it just disabled the systems that would have prevented them. That this happened at around the same time is just a coincidence, - or maybe minor power failures happen frequently and were just prevented from spreading?
Who the fuck runs mission-critical systems on Windows?!! HOMER SIMPSON?!!!
"I don't like MS either, but this is blatantly unfair. MS did fix the gaping hole -- last month. The problem is that their customers didn't implement the fix, so they are taking reasonable precautions to avoid damage. Beat them up for the things for which they deserve, but not this."
Because they've endgendered a "computing" culture where users are either: 1)ignorant about the need for patching, or 2) have been burned by fucked up M$ patches in the past and hence, don't keep up to date.
"Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice... ...
won't get fooled again"
This country is overrun with idiots. I hope you reap the consequences of your actions. I spit on you all!
Well, putting a several hundred page scanned catalog online as several blobs of PDF may be easy, it's certainly not very bandwith considerate.
PDF is essentially postscript in a different wrapper.
I have no problem with postscript. Particularly thoughtfully generated postscript. Acrobat's just a Godawful implementation. Having to support so many fucked up plugins doesn't help its bloatedness or stablity any, either.
"It is obvious that they are not going to own up to the code until they are forced to in court."
Then why can't someone (like RedHat) apply for an injunction to prevent SCO from behaving like an asshat until their claims are proven in court?
Once the kernel hackers see the proof, it'll probably take less than a day for them to excise the offending code -- if any.
The hack won't work for purely socialogical reasons. It makes the faulty assumption that Geekus malodorous would acknowledge a problem in the first place. So it's better to just make all geek t-shirts self-deodorizing.
They should be part of the public domain by now, if it weren't for Disney-Bono.
The fact of the matter is that copyright is a special dispensation of the normal state of things granted to the creator (and moreoften owned by the creator's employer) to give them exclusive rights to enjoy the profits of exploiting a work. If it were not for copyright everything would belong to the public domain to be viewed / copied / used as raw material as anyone saw fit.
Instead, this useful "natural resource" is being allowed to rot in some studio's basement until the print is destroyed, thereby robbing the public domain of any benefit.
The fact of the matter is that the *AA are businesses and their only concern is profit. The are not acting with due diligence as stewards of the creative work that they are assigned (signed over by the actual creators) temporary, limited rights to.
It's the burning of the library of Alexandria all over again. This time, on the fires of corporate profit. Just remember, as we slide into another dark age, you're the ones that used Microsoft Office!
Maybe it's just that Sprint sucks. But a huge number of calls show no data on the caller ID. All tele-annoyer calls show no data. Most people that we expect to call us show at least the number, so we've started ignoring calls not showing data and letting them get dumped to voice mail.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
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Although, it's perfectly understandable that people might jump 100 feet out of a gondola to escape a conflagartion like that mere dozens of feet above their heads.
Hmmmm, maybe there's a clue there?
Why doesn't Baharain do this? Do they capture the natural gas insted of venting it?
If so, how can SCO demand that we give them money for code that's distributed but that 99% of linux users ARE NOT USING?
This is exactly why they want you to sign your life away by signing a NDA before they will show you the code. They want to use this to bludgeon people into settling BEFORE IT GETS TO COURT . They are not interested in legitmately rectifying the situation.
We all know how that story works out!
Been there, done that.
Silly slashbot, Moore's law doesn't apply within Steve Job's reality distortion field.
If those rumors are true, then the worm didn't cause the power failures, it just disabled the systems that would have prevented them. That this happened at around the same time is just a coincidence, - or maybe minor power failures happen frequently and were just prevented from spreading?
Who the fuck runs mission-critical systems on Windows?!! HOMER SIMPSON?!!!
Because they've endgendered a "computing" culture where users are either: 1)ignorant about the need for patching, or 2) have been burned by fucked up M$ patches in the past and hence, don't keep up to date.
"Fool me once, shame on you ...
...
Fool me twice
won't get fooled again"
This country is overrun with idiots. I hope you reap the consequences of your actions. I spit on you all!
Is that Microsoft starts writing software for the Linux platform. Thereby making Linux a big fat target for bugs, worms and viruses.
That'll be real hard to explain when these things grease some dumbass taxpayer's son!
Yeah, I bet you didn't pay for your copy of "The Book of Virtues"!!!!
But nothing beat "Blockbuster" on my Milton Bradley Microvision!!! I could take it with me and play it in the car!!! l33t!!!
Oops, what the hell was I thinking?!!!
PDF is essentially postscript in a different wrapper. I have no problem with postscript. Particularly thoughtfully generated postscript. Acrobat's just a Godawful implementation. Having to support so many fucked up plugins doesn't help its bloatedness or stablity any, either.
Then why can't someone (like RedHat) apply for an injunction to prevent SCO from behaving like an asshat until their claims are proven in court?
Once the kernel hackers see the proof, it'll probably take less than a day for them to excise the offending code -- if any.
Acrobat sux too.
(And I'm not even counting the frequency at which idiots misuse .PDF when other things are much better suited to their intended purposes.)
The hack won't work for purely socialogical reasons. It makes the faulty assumption that Geekus malodorous would acknowledge a problem in the first place. So it's better to just make all geek t-shirts self-deodorizing.
If too many people do this, their OEM's will stop bundling Windows. Then we'll all be out an easy $200!!
The fact of the matter is that copyright is a special dispensation of the normal state of things granted to the creator (and moreoften owned by the creator's employer) to give them exclusive rights to enjoy the profits of exploiting a work. If it were not for copyright everything would belong to the public domain to be viewed / copied / used as raw material as anyone saw fit.
Instead, this useful "natural resource" is being allowed to rot in some studio's basement until the print is destroyed, thereby robbing the public domain of any benefit.
The fact of the matter is that the *AA are businesses and their only concern is profit. The are not acting with due diligence as stewards of the creative work that they are assigned (signed over by the actual creators) temporary, limited rights to.
It's the burning of the library of Alexandria all over again. This time, on the fires of corporate profit. Just remember, as we slide into another dark age, you're the ones that used Microsoft Office!
Maybe it's just that Sprint sucks. But a huge number of calls show no data on the caller ID. All tele-annoyer calls show no data. Most people that we expect to call us show at least the number, so we've started ignoring calls not showing data and letting them get dumped to voice mail.
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risc,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
Isn't that loosely equivalent to barratry? Shouldn't they sue everyone that they catch?