Suppose you needed to keep a terrorist organization together. If you contact anybody, then if you are compromised, so is your contact.
So if you spam the world, but included encrypted crap in the spam, then your contacts can read the messages and there is never a dotted line from you to him for anyone to join!
So. How many of you have received spam with encrypted gobblegook of late? Most of the stuff in my mail box is. Can the./ megamind decrypt this stuff?
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So you were so right about much of your dystopic future...
So, what about SARS? What will life be like during and after the great SARS pandemic of 2003/2004?
Don't hit Bruce, I posted the list, taken from Canopy Group's web site.
Unfortunately the % ownership is not listed there.
If someone could modify my list and prioritize by % stake held by the Canopy Group that would be A Good Thing.
The point remains, the Canopy Group is about cooperation and shared management resources, and this particular bit of stinkyness must be coming from right up on high.
ie. If they succeed, Open Friendlies like TrollTech will be pressured to become Closed Hostiles.
TrollTech is clearly not a prime target to lash out at, but it is a clear example of what is at risk here.
If someone with the time and bandwidth could prioritize that list by stake held by Canopy Group, it would give some focus to this discussion.
Thanks Bruce, you have given us direction for our, umm, intense dislike. Canopy Group.
Ah, so friend Google, who are the the Canopy Group? Aha. Ray Noorda. http://www.canopy.com
Ok, so here is some "blah" from their web site....
Canopy Group Overview::
Canopy Group has been categorized as a technology accelerator and a dynamic operating company. Funding and influencing emerging technologies and then providing
shareable management resources across its portfolio of companies is what Canopy Group does best.
Originally founded in 1995, Canopy Group continues to operate by founder Ray Noorda's vision of "co-opetition," where synergies across the portfolio are optimized at the same time that each company develops independent market success.
ie. Hit any in the Canopy Group and you hit'em all. ie. If SCO makes a sucess of this, the rest will share the "management resource".
Try my email.sig (cribbed from Sun java sources...), although sometimes my breakfast cereal box gets to me so....
May contain traces of nuts. This email was packed by mass, not
volume. Contents may have settled during distribution.
This email is not designed or intended for use in on-line control of
aircraft, air traffic, aircraft navigation or aircraft communications; or in
the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear
facility. Reader represents and warrants that it will not use or
redistribute the email for such purposes.
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So if you spam the world, but included encrypted crap in the spam, then your contacts can read the messages and there is never a dotted line from you to him for anyone to join!
So. How many of you have received spam with encrypted gobblegook of late? Most of the stuff in my mail box is. Can the ./ megamind decrypt this stuff?
So, what about SARS? What will life be like during and after the great SARS pandemic of 2003/2004?
Is it just me that has noticed the acronym "Coalition Of the Willing"? COW. The COW forces. Moo!
It went all static and wrong for about 15 minutes or so.
Damn, I've wasted my mod points on other posts. Mod this guy up.
So who is going to need that? Isn't all code like that already?
However, this must be entirely at the behest and with the intent of their majority holding group....Canopy Group
If someone can create a list of companies that Canopy Group has a majority stake in, then you have a focus for a boycott.
Nah you Nana! That is "Feeding the Jackals", bite the hand behind this move, ie. Canopy Group
Unfortunately the % ownership is not listed there.
If someone could modify my list and prioritize by % stake held by the Canopy Group that would be A Good Thing.
The point remains, the Canopy Group is about cooperation and shared management resources, and this particular bit of stinkyness must be coming from right up on high.
ie. If they succeed, Open Friendlies like TrollTech will be pressured to become Closed Hostiles.
TrollTech is clearly not a prime target to lash out at, but it is a clear example of what is at risk here.
If someone with the time and bandwidth could prioritize that list by stake held by Canopy Group, it would give some focus to this discussion.
Ah, so friend Google, who are the the Canopy Group? Aha. Ray Noorda. http://www.canopy.com
Ok, so here is some "blah" from their web site....
ie. Hit any in the Canopy Group and you hit'em all. ie. If SCO makes a sucess of this, the rest will share the "management resource".
So who is in the Canopy Group?
Oooh looky looky, Trolltech! So when are they going to be forced to sue for $1bn?
I bet you it's there.
It's the lawyers I tell you, find the lawyers irresponsible for this and and and and and send them to be human shields in Iraq.
Well, at least the hats. The suits are still with us.
Remember those E.E.Doc Smith books. Space Cadet throws his FTL spaceship into orbit around strange planet and hauls out his trusty slide rule...
Become a Lawyer and make your goal to have as many court cases as possible.
That's immediately a 50% increase in profit, you win whichever way the case goes, and you win double if they appeal..
Caltech,CalTech,Caltex,Kleenex who gives a shit?
The hardware goes "CRUNCH!", the wetware "SPLAT!" and the software doesn't.
You have a bug, what should you do next....
Write a unit test that triggers the bug. This has two uses....
How should you fix a bug? Refactor until the code is so simple, that the bug is obvious. Then remove the bug.
But to refactor safely you need a good suite of unit tests.
No testing, and debugging are not that far apart...
the code is so lucid that the urge to document goes away." -
John Carter
"Bugger" - Matt D
Umm. This code was kind of twisted.
So I'm going to untwist a little.
But only a little.
It is not really evil. Just a little mindwarping.
You see there is this cute Reactor singleton that dispenses wisdom,
mothers milk, signals, events i/o etc. etc.
Well. Umm, I fork() and exec it three times.
So the singleton actually becomes a quadrupleton.
But only one per process. Got that?
So we keep the original process around to watchdog the other 3.
So Reactor singleton #1 is watching the other three.
It responds to SIGCHLD's and restarts the other three when they die.
It responds to SIGINT's and kills off the other three when it is
time to finish.
It has a neat little timer that checks that the other three have put
a fresh timestamp in their little timestamp slots.
If they haven't it concludes they have gone barkin' mad and takes
them out back and shoots them.
Now to kill off the kiddies it sends them a SIGILL, to which they
should respond by quietly shutting down and exiting.
If they don't they get clobbered with a SIGKILL.
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Actually I thought the previous story about a personal jet pack would be far more "helpful to climbers".
Oh dear.
I clicked on a funny button that said I shouldn't.
Well, OK then, since that would be violating the EULA, I will just give him a wee smack on the wristie then.
Americans just don't get it, do they. One would almost think they thought that anybody gave a shit about their laws. Or any law for that matter...
So skip the EULA and do something real for a change. Something that involved money and how you spend it.
Nobody noticed it above the usual level of computer brokeness!
Sure, sometimes its nice, but more often its just plain dumb to have a GUI.
It must _hurt_ to see XBOX Linux page rank 2 slots higher on a Google search for xbox than M$'s own site....
If you could, you would have done the Moz right.
Well, you can start pulling down the source and cleaning it up now.