It doesn't look all that similar, Sonic Speedster has a lot more detailed textures etc. glTron is a GPLed knockoff of Tron which has been around since Tron was in the movies. I doubt that there is any GPL violation here.
I think I've played a Tron variant on every machine I've owned or used. Commodore Pet, TI/994A, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Macintosh etc.
2.5 isn't a from-scratch rewrite of the kernel so large portions of the kernel source code are common. Apparently the changes were introduced in the 2.4 kernel so the 2.2 kernel isn't a problem. The above isn't implying that I believe that there is any validity to SCO's fraudulent claims.
Any of the books that I actually use are full of book marks and added notes in the margin. For online books to really work for me I need to be able to continue doing this. Too often it means I end up printing the online book.
Add the ability to create an account. Logged in users get a personalized view of the material which they can add bookmarks to as well as a sidebar with their additional notes.
SCO hasn't proven that they have copyrights to anything. dhodell, you've infringed on my copyright, I demand 1 trillion dollars!
Making a claim that copyright has been violated doesn't make it true. SCO has never been willing to publicize exactly what has been violated. This seems suspicious to me, just as suspicious as my claims against you should seem. If SCO's copyrighted code is in fact being infringed upon then they have nothing to lose by publicizing the offending portions.
First of all, I'm not whining, what I'm saying is that SCO is free to claim copyright till it's blue in the face. They'd better put up or shut up when it comes to proving those claims though. So far they haven't put up, so it's time to shut up.
whatever that means. Even if I ran a business and I believed that SCO had a strong enough case to cause me worry I wouldn't buy into this. Say my business runs RedHat, I purchase a license and I'm held blameless. Fine, but RedHat itself isn't, so SCO goes and sues RedHat at a later date.
A few things can happen. 1) SCO loses, my license purchase was pointless then but I'm only out some money. 2) SCO wins and RedHat pays the licensing fees. My license purchase was pointless again because RedHat's aquisition of a license covers me. Not only that but RedHat will past the cost on to the consumers. 3) SCO wins and RedHat can't afford the licensing fee. RedHat goes out of business and I'm left with an orphaned product.
Basically unless I roll my own internal variant of linux I don't see any positive benefit to purchasing the license unless they intend to go after each business individually in court.
I don't understand how your comment is insightful, but the point is that if people are willing to steal from a mailbox or the apartment managers office I don't see how people think that nobody would possibly look through their trash or recycle box for banking or credit card information.
It's a pretty similar thing, except that with the cases I mentioned you're actually violating federal law just by doing it. You're not necessarily violating federal law by rummaging through somebodies trash. Based on this I would estimate that the probability that somebody would be willing to do this would be higher than the probability that somebody would steal mail.
I don't think you understand risk analysis at all. Risk analysis implies that you take a look at the potential loss, probability of the occurence and the cost of preventing it. For 50 bucks or so I got myself a cross cut shredder, it's a cheap price for additional piece of mind. It also cuts down on the overall volume that the junk mail I receive takes up. I still get the same amount but it ends up taking up less room in my recycle box.
The risk is zero. The mathematical expectation (probability v.s. potential loss if somebody does pilfer my garbage) is greater than 50 bucks. Risk analysis says that buying the shredder was wise, though not overwhelmingly so.
I've had:
Two offers of employment stolen (FedEX said they were signed for yet I didn't get the actual offers - somebody knows how much I make, my address, my occupation etc)
Silly little amazon.com thank you gift stolen (the box was found in the women's restroom)
This is what I know of and it happened within 2 years.
Not really, suprisingly from what I've seen online libertarians are more worried about the possibility of social programs rather than the reality of an intrusive government.
The Google cache isn't bad for privacy. Your act of ranting in public against Microsoft were bad for your privacy. Not too long ago in order for your views to be made public they had to be in some way notable. Maybe the reason for their notable was because of your eloquence. Newspapers picked you up and published you. News shows picked you up and aired you. You could try and make yourself notable by publishing a letter to the editor, but of course the editor could choose not to publish you. If your views were published and at a later date you no longer agreed with them it's not the newspapers fault that your name was attached to those views. You did it. Your name is on microfiche or in library stacks because of your own actions.
The world wide web enabled anybody to publish anything with no editor in the middle. There is nobody there to check facts or decide that your view wasn't eloquently written enough or wasn't personally embarassing. All the google cache does is what microfiche or libraries did for printed material. If you don't want to be embarassed in public by your past views then don't publish your present views. The onus is on you. You can't even blame an editor for modifying your words and putting them in a different context.
If you can't accept this then you are posting on the wrong medium.
Netflix is based in Utah. Utah is strongly mormon and it just so happens one of the founders, Reed Hastings, was the head of the State Board of Education. So keeping the porn would negatively affect Reed's chances of re-election. Remember, Utah has (or had, I think I read that the post was axed) a Porn Czar.
I spend most of my free time hiking and doing photography. I use a 35 mm (nikon n90s) but will probably go to a digital SLR once an affordable one comes out with a 1:1 magnification so that my 20 mm wide angle stays a 20 mm wide angle and not a narrower 30 mm.
I also like tinkering with electronics, usually by abusing some piece of ancient consumer electronics and building something else out of it.
Google has integrity, they at least try to do the right thing. Consider this search search engine. Google could easily screw with the results to put themselves on top. They don't.
Can you see Microsoft showing this level of restraint?
It's a very bad thing to replace the natural soybean crop with a genetic one if Monsanto then gets to claim that you're infringing their patents. In the U.S. it makes an artificial monopoly (since now all soybeans are Monsanto property), in third world countries it devestates them because they can't afford the licensing fees.
It's a very bad thing to replace the natural soybean crop with a genetic one if it turns out that Monsanto's tweaking actually causes side effects that harm humans, animals or other crops.
It depends really. A MD5 hash will only tell if entire files were misappropriated verbatim. So throwing on a GNU header, adding in a changelog entry for a bug fix etc would all invalidate the MD5 hash. I do not believe that there is any truth to the SCO claims, but MD5 hashes wouldn't be proof in favour of linux either.
A first step would be to use a regexp to spit out all the comments into a file sorted by some key. Do this for both the SCO and linux code bases. Toss out all the comments which aren't in both lists and you now have a file with common comments. This would be where to start looking, if you see non-trivial verbatim comments then further investigation would be needed.
I think Microsoft is just being opportunistic more than anything. They were probably approached by SCO in the same manner IBM was. Usually Microsoft would crush SCO like a bug or buy them out but in this case the more useful thing for Microsoft is to buy into the license. It costs them money, something they have no shortage of. In return they get to spread FUD over linux without being the source of it for a change.
Thanks, this is something I was always wondering about with.torrents. I usually watch it a bit when they first start and have always noticed that I'm uploading at at least a 5:1 ratio to my downloads. I've never watched it past this though.
The facts are Eric moved his pages after his attempts of obtaining tuxedo.org failed. He attempted to obtain tuxedo.org with ARROGANT bullying, threats of lawsuit, and a threat of telling the world I am an asshole. Ericâ(TM)s behavior was that of a spoiled brat. Childish behavior like that should not be rewarded. Two weeks after he moved his pages, I started redirecting traffic to a number of different sites including techp.org, fsf.org, eff.orgâ¦
Well, then make it known. It's your responsibility to make the story known, not Eric's and the there is especially no responsibility on a random stranger to know your story.
I'll add your name to the list of people who are asking to get sued for defamation. When you write things which are false, then call the person a jerk, you are asking to get sued as well as flamed for being an idiot. When you call someone a jerk, you had better get your facts right!
Way to counter arrogant bullying and threats of lawsuits with yet more arrogant bullying and threats of lawsuits. Jackass.
N.B. this is not defamation, you have proven yourself a jackass.
Nah, michael was outsourced to an Indian contractor long ago. Oddly enough despite this contractors lack of knowledge of the English language he still manages to make fewer typos and grammatical errors than michael.
Unfortunately a lot of journalists are like that. I've learned that you need to be very focused when talking with them. Just the facts ma'am. Your humorous comment or anecdote can be taken out of context. I've been interviewed several times, mostly as part of an old position I held, but also shortly after September 11th. I was interviewed by a local news team prior to taking a flight out and by national news on the return leg.
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It doesn't look all that similar, Sonic Speedster has a lot more detailed textures etc. glTron is a GPLed knockoff of Tron which has been around since Tron was in the movies. I doubt that there is any GPL violation here.
I think I've played a Tron variant on every machine I've owned or used. Commodore Pet, TI/994A, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Macintosh etc.
2.5 isn't a from-scratch rewrite of the kernel so large portions of the kernel source code are common. Apparently the changes were introduced in the 2.4 kernel so the 2.2 kernel isn't a problem. The above isn't implying that I believe that there is any validity to SCO's fraudulent claims.
Any of the books that I actually use are full of book marks and added notes in the margin. For online books to really work for me I need to be able to continue doing this. Too often it means I end up printing the online book.
Add the ability to create an account. Logged in users get a personalized view of the material which they can add bookmarks to as well as a sidebar with their additional notes.
The E10000 was a Cray product that was sold off when sgi aquired Cray.
SCO hasn't proven that they have copyrights to anything. dhodell, you've infringed on my copyright, I demand 1 trillion dollars!
Making a claim that copyright has been violated doesn't make it true. SCO has never been willing to publicize exactly what has been violated. This seems suspicious to me, just as suspicious as my claims against you should seem. If SCO's copyrighted code is in fact being infringed upon then they have nothing to lose by publicizing the offending portions.
First of all, I'm not whining, what I'm saying is that SCO is free to claim copyright till it's blue in the face. They'd better put up or shut up when it comes to proving those claims though. So far they haven't put up, so it's time to shut up.
Bullshit. This is only the end of a free OS if SCO wins and the only solution acceptable to the court is financial compensation to SCO.
A few things can happen. 1) SCO loses, my license purchase was pointless then but I'm only out some money. 2) SCO wins and RedHat pays the licensing fees. My license purchase was pointless again because RedHat's aquisition of a license covers me. Not only that but RedHat will past the cost on to the consumers. 3) SCO wins and RedHat can't afford the licensing fee. RedHat goes out of business and I'm left with an orphaned product.
Basically unless I roll my own internal variant of linux I don't see any positive benefit to purchasing the license unless they intend to go after each business individually in court.
Ahh, I don't take it out of the envelope. It gets through my cross-shredder fine (well, fine in a mangled way)
I don't understand how your comment is insightful, but the point is that if people are willing to steal from a mailbox or the apartment managers office I don't see how people think that nobody would possibly look through their trash or recycle box for banking or credit card information.
It's a pretty similar thing, except that with the cases I mentioned you're actually violating federal law just by doing it. You're not necessarily violating federal law by rummaging through somebodies trash. Based on this I would estimate that the probability that somebody would be willing to do this would be higher than the probability that somebody would steal mail.
The risk is zero. The mathematical expectation (probability v.s. potential loss if somebody does pilfer my garbage) is greater than 50 bucks. Risk analysis says that buying the shredder was wise, though not overwhelmingly so.
I've had:
This is what I know of and it happened within 2 years.
Not really, suprisingly from what I've seen online libertarians are more worried about the possibility of social programs rather than the reality of an intrusive government.
The world wide web enabled anybody to publish anything with no editor in the middle. There is nobody there to check facts or decide that your view wasn't eloquently written enough or wasn't personally embarassing. All the google cache does is what microfiche or libraries did for printed material. If you don't want to be embarassed in public by your past views then don't publish your present views. The onus is on you. You can't even blame an editor for modifying your words and putting them in a different context.
If you can't accept this then you are posting on the wrong medium.
Netflix is based in Utah. Utah is strongly mormon and it just so happens one of the founders, Reed Hastings, was the head of the State Board of Education. So keeping the porn would negatively affect Reed's chances of re-election. Remember, Utah has (or had, I think I read that the post was axed) a Porn Czar.
I spend most of my free time hiking and doing photography. I use a 35 mm (nikon n90s) but will probably go to a digital SLR once an affordable one comes out with a 1:1 magnification so that my 20 mm wide angle stays a 20 mm wide angle and not a narrower 30 mm.
I also like tinkering with electronics, usually by abusing some piece of ancient consumer electronics and building something else out of it.
Can you see Microsoft showing this level of restraint?
It's a very bad thing to replace the natural soybean crop with a genetic one if Monsanto then gets to claim that you're infringing their patents. In the U.S. it makes an artificial monopoly (since now all soybeans are Monsanto property), in third world countries it devestates them because they can't afford the licensing fees.
It's a very bad thing to replace the natural soybean crop with a genetic one if it turns out that Monsanto's tweaking actually causes side effects that harm humans, animals or other crops.
Ahh thanks, I didn't think of that.
It depends really. A MD5 hash will only tell if entire files were misappropriated verbatim. So throwing on a GNU header, adding in a changelog entry for a bug fix etc would all invalidate the MD5 hash. I do not believe that there is any truth to the SCO claims, but MD5 hashes wouldn't be proof in favour of linux either.
A first step would be to use a regexp to spit out all the comments into a file sorted by some key. Do this for both the SCO and linux code bases. Toss out all the comments which aren't in both lists and you now have a file with common comments. This would be where to start looking, if you see non-trivial verbatim comments then further investigation would be needed.
I think Microsoft is just being opportunistic more than anything. They were probably approached by SCO in the same manner IBM was. Usually Microsoft would crush SCO like a bug or buy them out but in this case the more useful thing for Microsoft is to buy into the license. It costs them money, something they have no shortage of. In return they get to spread FUD over linux without being the source of it for a change.
Thanks, this is something I was always wondering about with .torrents. I usually watch it a bit when they first start and have always noticed that I'm uploading at at least a 5:1 ratio to my downloads. I've never watched it past this though.
There are a lot of lobbying groups that advance the position of us little people. Bent over and grabbing our ankles is a positing, right?
Well, then make it known. It's your responsibility to make the story known, not Eric's and the there is especially no responsibility on a random stranger to know your story.
Way to counter arrogant bullying and threats of lawsuits with yet more arrogant bullying and threats of lawsuits. Jackass.
N.B. this is not defamation, you have proven yourself a jackass.
Nah, michael was outsourced to an Indian contractor long ago. Oddly enough despite this contractors lack of knowledge of the English language he still manages to make fewer typos and grammatical errors than michael.
Unfortunately a lot of journalists are like that. I've learned that you need to be very focused when talking with them. Just the facts ma'am. Your humorous comment or anecdote can be taken out of context. I've been interviewed several times, mostly as part of an old position I held, but also shortly after September 11th. I was interviewed by a local news team prior to taking a flight out and by national news on the return leg.
If that doesn't get you into your prom dates panties nothing will.