IANAL but if SCO says they've; terminated the license that IBM uses to distribute AIX, it follows that any distribution of AIX is illegal. I f you say somebody such as IBM is illegaly distibuting something such as AIX, then you'd better be able to back it up in court, or be prepared to face a devestating judgement for slander/libel
Linux developers would quickly replace it. That would be like the linux people admiting wrong, SCO should be post the infinging code in full page adds in the NY times for pete's sake. But they arn't, what are they afraid of, might somebody else recognise the code as stolen from them by SCO?
actualy I thought it interesting that after SCO throwing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit at IBM, habitualy bad-mouthing or scare-mongering anything Linux, and harrassing RH's customers, that their stock value looked pretty un-effected.
I'm not sure it's just us introverts; extroverts seem rude, and impulsive, even to other extroverts, or especialy other extroverts. I can pretty well ignore someone who's too insecure to actualy share the attention or engage in a conversation that involves two or more people talking to each other rather than one person talking at another. Extroverts usualy have trouble dealing with anybody that doesn't see them as the center of the universe, so two extroverts naturaly clash, even if they pretend they don't.
Are bankruptcy proceedings so sloppy that they leave any property unassigned?I'd imagine that there is a default assignment, and you could determine who by looking at the court records; unfortunately, the transcript might cost more than the code is worth.
Not to mention the I assume that redhead owns copyrights to big chunks of the kernal and employs (or at least did) Alan Cox, the 2.4 series maint. so when SCO distributed their openLinux up untill about july 18, in violation to the GPL (non-GPL and GPL code mixed) they were violating RH's copyrights as well as other kernal contributors.
Seems like RH might be at the head of the line that will be a feeding-frenzy that may leave SCO a stripped carcase. Boy I sure would like to know about that 18 July letter contained, it was the same day that people started complianing that SCO FTP server for openLinux was shut down!
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner. is excelent for understanding calculus, I read it before I took calculas in college, and understood what I couldn't do. My algebra skills really weren't good enough to take calculus so if I hadn't studied Thampson & Gardner, I'd have now idea what calculas was.
Public schools in the US never taught very much science as far as I can tell (michigan schools 60'a and 70's, we did some real science in our seinor year of HS), it was really more of a history of science, in which you were expected to learn a few of the principals along the way. Asimov's "The Endocronic properties of Theotimoline" (I think the title is close, but the last word probably miss-spelled) is completely fictional and actualy teaches more science than a year of public school does, its a good read to
I've actualy watched the show,You Bet Your Life, or at least parts of it, as it came on past my bedtime LOL. That was back in the days when the NBC peacock meant the next show was going to be in color
You might find jabber interesting, you can run your own server on your network, force all employees to go through your server, so what alowed or blocked or monitored is only limited by your imagination and programing abilities. It talks to AOL, yahoo and msn messenger services out of the box and can even conference the above.
open it!, your living in a deam world! messenger is buried in WindowsXP so deep its like trying to kill a hydra by beheadment. Every time I think it gone, or at least shut up, the next "updates" puts it back in or turns it on. I get more IM spam thru messenger, than thru Email so there is nothing you have to open. Guess I'm spoiled by using Linux.
The patent office has been burned before because of not granting patents the should have been, so now their stratagy seems to be grant the patent, and let the courts sort it out later. This is complicated by the courts stratagy of if the patent is granted, its valid untill proven otherwise.
If a corporation pays little or no taxes and refuses to employ Americans, does it really matter to the United States if they remain profitable or not? Well since the majority of the stockholders are americans who are paying taxes, yes. Remember individuals almost always pay a higher rate than corps do. Also more and more, companies are becoming commodities, consider this, workers from sub-contractors, company a building subs, company b doing finals, company c final packaging an another doing distibuting; the board of directors, and the pres and VP's all metting via internet chat.
And in the course of the past 5 years alone, we've seen scandals that stretch the imagination from just about every sector. A bunch of evil children running amok with the keys to the nation. Can't agrue about that, what children need is displine, maybe if the IRS would over turn the expenses for companies not being run as a "going concern", the added taxes, interest and penalties would get the little kiddies attention. It also seems that accounting fraud is basicaly end of company for all involved.
Yes things would be a lot better if they had someone like Einstein working there or something.
Seriously, the problem with software patents is anyone can look at them, say my evil competitor, has been granted a software patent. I can tell my R&D dept to take evil competitors patent and apply for patents on every concievable extention to it. The result would be after evil has been shiiping upgraded product for a year, my patent applied for becomes patent granted and I crush evil corp with litigation and become Megaevil corp.
yes they have lot's of IP's, and blocks of IP's are doled out on a as needed basis. Running arround crying the sky is falling, makes for good tabloid headlines, They got all of us/. morrons to bite; but the truth is when we run out of ip4 Addresses, the whole world is out. Americans don't have a secret hoard of them saved for a rainy day.
Actualy if it really worked like the article implied and asia for example got one huge contiguous block of addresses spam filtering would be alot easier. There are lots of good reasons for going to IP6, it's just that running out of addresses isn't one of them.
The boss got pointed to spybot S&D at Spybot-S&D by microsoft tech support! Works good for me, the Wife's Windows XP machine sure boots a lot faster after cleaning out 148 spyware programs trying to boot.
The only disadvantage is having to explain why the cute screensaver she downloaded won't intall because it's full of spyware. Same goes for KaZaa et. al. It's free as in beer but they'll take donations.
this can't possibly make that broken I once fixed a radar that won't go from standyby to radiate; one of the cabinet heaters had AC neutral shorted to ground. None of the radar guys could find it because they know how the system was supposed to work, while I a missile guy had to follow the schematics.
Actualy Canada (Toronto specificaly) export garbage to the United States. I waiting for some pissed off Customs Agent to ask "Any Fruits or Vegitable back there?" and making the driver open it up for inspection.
I agree with you, I wasn't commenting on the merits or legality of it, it's just what SCO is doing. They'll never be able to enforce it, but if some pointy haired C*O decide to ante up, SCO will certainly just collect the money and hold them "blameless", smiling all the way to the bank! Look at it like a protection racket
"Hello, I'm Groucho Marx, and welcome to another edition of "You infringe on Copyrights". Tonight's contestant is Mr. Darl McBride, from SCO Group. Tell us, Mr. McBride, what do you do, and how often do you infringe on copyrights?" "I...I *dont't* infringe on copyrights" "Oh, come on, Mr. McBride, dont' be shy. Just whisper the URL of your FTP server. I won't tell" (FX: Audience laughter) "But I don't infringe!" "Ah, an *alleged* infringer, eh? It'll be interesting to see how long he gets away with it, folks!" (FX: applause) Well you did have a FTP server up to about 18th of July didn't You?" "Well yes we did, but we took it down" "OK Mr. McBride, you did have openLinux on it didn't you?(FX: Audience laughter) "I *already* said we took it down" "the 18th, that was well after your company said IBM put your IP into Linux wasn't it?" "Of course it was" "and isn't distributing non-GPLed code mixed with GPL'ed code a violation of the GPL and therefore an infringement of the copyrights of about 250 major and countless minor kernal contributer's" "our legal team dropped the ball on this one"(McBride's face appears ashen) "look on the bright side, if you lose your suit with IBM then your not an infringer and go bankrupt, If you win, then the code you distributed under the GPL becomes GPL'ed and the infringement suits bankrupt you anyways!(FX: Audience Hysterical laughter)
SCO isn't licensing Linux, they're licensing the UNIX they allege is in linux. The license is to "hold blameless" if they win (A VERY BIG IF), then when they lose, they still hold you blameless(SUCKERS).
Is Windows a "safe" alternative? No way SCO said "solaris is safe" not windows is safe. first they knock down Linux through IBM, then they go after BSD, they'll claim that BSD breached their settlement and that places BSD back as a Sys V dirivative, and therefore MAC OS X and WINDOWS! All modern OSes except Solaris!
I do expect the government to give tax incentives, grants, etc to spark new business and industry
Normaly I'd agree with you, but right now I think the bussines has enough tax incentives, and enough has been done by the consumer to get the economy going; so now I entertain the notion of taking back something like making employee wages an expense only at straight time and counting equipment passed it's depreciation period as income.
A.Not paid enough to make us give a shit.
B.Forced to work longer than we're scheduled, but don't get overtime because we don't work more than 40's hrs in the week. C.Have shitty managers who are indeed flunkies that get off on pushing around younger people while they can because eventually those younger people will be their bosses in corporate. D.Don't feel like giving our very best to customers who deride us based on their opinion of our job. E.Don't really care about doing well for advancement because we're only here for the couple of years or summers it takes before we can pursue a REAL career where we can actually spread our wings.
That is what everyone says! What job/career do you realy expect to find or create will not have all of the above? That's as stupid as all of the people who'll tell you they are self-employed because they want to be their own boss, every customer is your boss
it a fact of life you'll always feel 1. underpaid/overworked 2. have to deal with surely arogant managers or customers 3. always be at a position longer than you planned get used to it. if you really feel that way now, KY jelly helps because your fucked
dateline 2057 Bussinesses in cost reducing manuvers to reduce escalating income and property taxes are replacing high capital robots with Human employees. Mr. P.H. Boss reported "When the administration reduced the depreciation period for robots from 7 years to 2; it became finacialy attractive to replace our worn out robots with the MCSE's that were put in cryro-freeze after the courts ruled Windows a SysV dirivative in 2007"..."Human employess are great, their maintence costs are fixed through health insurance, You don't have to pay for their energy consumption and they can do the work of a 10 Million dollar robot without having to pay property taxes on them"
I don't think that you'll ever see a autonomous, self-directing robot preforming surgery, mostly because people have a lot more abnormal internal structures than you'd imagine, extra veins, arteries, tendons, bones, nerves and all of the above missing or in the wrong place.
If robots in surgery is remote manipulation devices, then it's here already, such as endoscopic surgery, cardiac catheterization ect.
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IANAL but if SCO says they've; terminated the license that IBM uses to distribute AIX, it follows that any distribution of AIX is illegal. I f you say somebody such as IBM is illegaly distibuting something such as AIX, then you'd better be able to back it up in court, or be prepared to face a devestating judgement for slander/libel
Linux developers would quickly replace it.
That would be like the linux people admiting wrong, SCO should be post the infinging code in full page adds in the NY times for pete's sake. But they arn't, what are they afraid of, might somebody else recognise the code as stolen from them by SCO?
actualy I thought it interesting that after SCO throwing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit at IBM, habitualy bad-mouthing or scare-mongering anything Linux, and harrassing RH's customers, that their stock value looked pretty un-effected.
I'm not sure it's just us introverts; extroverts seem rude, and impulsive, even to other extroverts, or especialy other extroverts. I can pretty well ignore someone who's too insecure to actualy share the attention or engage in a conversation that involves two or more people talking to each other rather than one person talking at another. Extroverts usualy have trouble dealing with anybody that doesn't see them as the center of the universe, so two extroverts naturaly clash, even if they pretend they don't.
Are bankruptcy proceedings so sloppy that they leave any property unassigned?I'd imagine that there is a default assignment, and you could determine who by looking at the court records; unfortunately, the transcript might cost more than the code is worth.
Not to mention the I assume that redhead owns copyrights to big chunks of the kernal and employs (or at least did) Alan Cox, the 2.4 series maint. so when SCO distributed their openLinux up untill about july 18, in violation to the GPL (non-GPL and GPL code mixed) they were violating RH's copyrights as well as other kernal contributors.
Seems like RH might be at the head of the line that will be a feeding-frenzy that may leave SCO a stripped carcase. Boy I sure would like to know about that 18 July letter contained, it was the same day that people started complianing that SCO FTP server for openLinux was shut down!
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner. is excelent for understanding calculus, I read it before I took calculas in college, and understood what I couldn't do. My algebra skills really weren't good enough to take calculus so if I hadn't studied Thampson & Gardner, I'd have now idea what calculas was.
Public schools in the US never taught very much science as far as I can tell (michigan schools 60'a and 70's, we did some real science in our seinor year of HS), it was really more of a history of science, in which you were expected to learn a few of the principals along the way. Asimov's "The Endocronic properties of Theotimoline" (I think the title is close, but the last word probably miss-spelled) is completely fictional and actualy teaches more science than a year of public school does, its a good read to
I've actualy watched the show,You Bet Your Life, or at least parts of it, as it came on past my bedtime LOL. That was back in the days when the NBC peacock meant the next show was going to be in color
You might find jabber interesting, you can run your own server on your network, force all employees to go through your server, so what alowed or blocked or monitored is only limited by your imagination and programing abilities.
It talks to AOL, yahoo and msn messenger services out of the box and can even conference the above.
open it!, your living in a deam world! messenger is buried in WindowsXP so deep its like trying to kill a hydra by beheadment. Every time I think it gone, or at least shut up, the next "updates" puts it back in or turns it on. I get more IM spam thru messenger, than thru Email so there is nothing you have to open. Guess I'm spoiled by using Linux.
The patent office has been burned before because of not granting patents the should have been, so now their stratagy seems to be grant the patent, and let the courts sort it out later. This is complicated by the courts stratagy of if the patent is granted, its valid untill proven otherwise.
If a corporation pays little or no taxes and refuses to employ Americans, does it really matter to the United States if they remain profitable or not?
Well since the majority of the stockholders are americans who are paying taxes, yes. Remember individuals almost always pay a higher rate than corps do. Also more and more, companies are becoming commodities, consider this, workers from sub-contractors, company a building subs, company b doing finals, company c final packaging an another doing distibuting; the board of directors, and the pres and VP's all metting via internet chat.
And in the course of the past 5 years alone, we've seen scandals that stretch the imagination from just about every sector. A bunch of evil children running amok with the keys to the nation. Can't agrue about that, what children need is displine, maybe if the IRS would over turn the expenses for companies not being run as a "going concern", the added taxes, interest and penalties would get the little kiddies attention. It also seems that accounting fraud is basicaly end of company for all involved.
Yes things would be a lot better if they had someone like Einstein working there or something.
Seriously, the problem with software patents is anyone can look at them, say my evil competitor, has been granted a software patent. I can tell my R&D dept to take evil competitors patent and apply for patents on every concievable extention to it. The result would be after evil has been shiiping upgraded product for a year, my patent applied for becomes patent granted and I crush evil corp with litigation and become Megaevil corp.
yes they have lot's of IP's, and blocks of IP's are doled out on a as needed basis. Running arround crying the sky is falling, makes for good tabloid headlines, They got all of us /. morrons to bite; but the truth is when we run out of ip4 Addresses, the whole world is out. Americans don't have a secret hoard of them saved for a rainy day.
Actualy if it really worked like the article implied and asia for example got one huge contiguous block of addresses spam filtering would be alot easier.
There are lots of good reasons for going to IP6, it's just that running out of addresses isn't one of them.
The boss got pointed to spybot S&D at Spybot-S&D by microsoft tech support! Works good for me, the Wife's Windows XP machine sure boots a lot faster after cleaning out 148 spyware programs trying to boot.
The only disadvantage is having to explain why the cute screensaver she downloaded won't intall because it's full of spyware. Same goes for KaZaa et. al. It's free as in beer but they'll take donations.
this can't possibly make that broken
I once fixed a radar that won't go from standyby to radiate; one of the cabinet heaters had AC neutral shorted to ground. None of the radar guys could find it because they know how the system was supposed to work, while I a missile guy had to follow the schematics.
Actualy Canada (Toronto specificaly) export garbage to the United States. I waiting for some pissed off Customs Agent to ask "Any Fruits or Vegitable back there?" and making the driver open it up for inspection.
I agree with you, I wasn't commenting on the merits or legality of it, it's just what SCO is doing. They'll never be able to enforce it, but if some pointy haired C*O decide to ante up, SCO will certainly just collect the money and hold them "blameless", smiling all the way to the bank! Look at it like a protection racket
"Hello, I'm Groucho Marx, and welcome to another edition of "You infringe on Copyrights". Tonight's contestant is Mr. Darl McBride, from SCO Group. Tell us, Mr. McBride, what do you do, and how often do you infringe on copyrights?"
"I...I *dont't* infringe on copyrights"
"Oh, come on, Mr. McBride, dont' be shy. Just whisper the URL of your FTP server. I won't tell" (FX: Audience laughter)
"But I don't infringe!"
"Ah, an *alleged* infringer, eh? It'll be interesting to see how long he gets away with it, folks!" (FX: applause) Well you did have a FTP server up to about 18th of July didn't You?"
"Well yes we did, but we took it down"
"OK Mr. McBride, you did have openLinux on it didn't you?(FX: Audience laughter)
"I *already* said we took it down"
"the 18th, that was well after your company said IBM put your IP into Linux wasn't it?"
"Of course it was"
"and isn't distributing non-GPLed code mixed with GPL'ed code a violation of the GPL and therefore an infringement of the copyrights of about 250 major and countless minor kernal contributer's"
"our legal team dropped the ball on this one"(McBride's face appears ashen)
"look on the bright side, if you lose your suit with IBM then your not an infringer and go bankrupt, If you win, then the code you distributed under the GPL becomes GPL'ed and the infringement suits bankrupt you anyways!(FX: Audience Hysterical laughter)
SCO isn't licensing Linux, they're licensing the UNIX they allege is in linux. The license is to "hold blameless" if they win (A VERY BIG IF), then when they lose, they still hold you blameless(SUCKERS).
Is Windows a "safe" alternative? No way SCO said "solaris is safe" not windows is safe. first they knock down Linux through IBM, then they go after BSD, they'll claim that BSD breached their settlement and that places BSD back as a Sys V dirivative, and therefore MAC OS X and WINDOWS! All modern OSes except Solaris!
I do expect the government to give tax incentives, grants, etc to spark new business and industry
Normaly I'd agree with you, but right now I think the bussines has enough tax incentives, and enough has been done by the consumer to get the economy going; so now I entertain the notion of taking back something like making employee wages an expense only at straight time and counting equipment passed it's depreciation period as income.
That is what everyone says! What job/career do you realy expect to find or create will not have all of the above? That's as stupid as all of the people who'll tell you they are self-employed because they want to be their own boss, every customer is your boss
it a fact of life you'll always feel
1. underpaid/overworked
2. have to deal with surely arogant managers or customers
3. always be at a position longer than you planned
get used to it. if you really feel that way now, KY jelly helps because your fucked
dateline 2057
Bussinesses in cost reducing manuvers to reduce escalating income and property taxes are replacing high capital robots with Human employees. Mr. P.H. Boss reported "When the administration reduced the depreciation period for robots from 7 years to 2; it became finacialy attractive to replace our worn out robots with the MCSE's that were put in cryro-freeze after the courts ruled Windows a SysV dirivative in 2007"..."Human employess are great, their maintence costs are fixed through health insurance, You don't have to pay for their energy consumption and they can do the work of a 10 Million dollar robot without having to pay property taxes on them"
I don't think that you'll ever see a autonomous, self-directing robot preforming surgery, mostly because people have a lot more abnormal internal structures than you'd imagine, extra veins, arteries, tendons, bones, nerves and all of the above missing or in the wrong place.
If robots in surgery is remote manipulation devices, then it's here already, such as endoscopic surgery, cardiac catheterization ect.