This really isn't worth being featured on Slashdot. There is no conspiracy, and the authors paranoia is just plain scary. I can't get a good article about thermo-electric engines posted, but this idiot gets this twaddle posted? Slashdot, meet Fox News, Fox News, meet Slashdot.
OK, if they have the right to impersonate an officer, when do WE get the right to impersonate an angry mob? Perhaps the long-term goal of RIAA is to get every illegal song swapper and unwitting buyer of pirated goods to wear a little yellow star with "Juden" stenciled in.
Hell, if the government lets them go that far, I am sure ovens and gas chambers in the basement of the Capitol records building in Los Angeles can't be far behind. This is utterly ridiculous. Private police forces and a government too beholden to them to actually say no.
requiring them to certify that they are in full compliance with their Unix source code agreements and are not using Unix code in Linux.
Unless I am mistaken, this is a backstep from the original letter. Certifying you have no UNIX code is far different from the whole derivative ideas crap they were claiming last time. A large company's lawyer will reply with:
Please notify us of which UNIX source codes you are referring to, as this company has no legal requirement to SCO to certify anything until you receive a favorable legal judgement. We will be happy to comply beforehand, but there is no burden on us and we require your help. If you can inform us of the violations, we will be happy to work with the programming community to eliminate any current violations once you have made us aware of them.
A letter like this will show a willingness to eliminate any copyright violation, while still putting the burden on SCO to provide actual instances of infringment. The fact that SCO is asking for the good-faith effort in the first place definitely seems a lot weaker than their previous letter.
1. Announce a nice, big, open competition for ideas, welcome everyone.
2. Get everyone's papers and technical submissions for free.
3. Suddenly, cut the field to 25 well-qualified, well-financed groups. Forget you welcomed everyone.
4. Change the specifications to include some of the more innovative ideas you got, for free, from the small groups you exclude.
5. Run your "competition" touting how fair it is.
6. In the end, award the contract to Raytheon, Boeing, Lockeed. Pay them three times what the small contractor would have charged.
7. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The reason we don't innovate anymore in this country is because true innovation comes from free-thinkers. Darpa and the DOD don't get that anymore, and rely on the same old staid companies to do everything. They'll get a RC vehicle with half the capabilities they originally hoped for at three times the price. Who needs innovation? Just keep feeding the defense-contract monster.
A Fungal, crystal, or bio-bloom on top of the ice could easily be that large if it received no competition, and had enough nutrients. It's not a buch, because there is no shadow to speak of. It does resemble a crystal growth quite closely. It even has the fractal edges to it. I don't know what it is, but I can't dismiss it quite as easily.
Sorry, don't expect UAVs to be taking you anywhere in the next 100 years. They are great for military application, but UAVs have a horrible record of dealing with anomalies like crosswind landings and takeoffs. They do poorly in common emergencies, not to mention uncommon ones. I am sure the tweaking and coding will continue to improve, but no one would or should feel safe geting aboard a commercial aircraft with 250 passengers run by HAL 9000.
Yes, many GA accidents are pilot error. A good share of passenger accidents are as well. What you don't see in NTSB reports are how many equipment failure and accident avoidance incidents are corrected/saved each year by pilots. You don't hear about the aircraft that manage to land with an onboard fire that incapicates the computers. Those are all future "pilot errors" we can all look forward to in a pilotless cockpit. The day may come when pilots are replaced, but it will be a long time before a pilot (who knows the dangers in the sky) gets aboard one of these planes as a passenger. Why should you be any different.
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Read on Groklaw, and thought it was funny there. Thanks for bringing it over. And yes, Brent (whomever and wherever he is) gets universal positive karma for making me laugh twice this morning.
However, there is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress.
Yes. They work for SCO right?
Another laugher, developers in other parts of the world don't believe in US Congressionally mandated copyright laws? They don't have to idiot-Darl.
Slashdot must be really be scraping the bottom of the barrel for this story. With a group of experts, and a $3000 budget, and lots of time, Jesse James manages to barely finish his wundercars each show. The guys from Junkyard Wars made two in 10 hours with the same amoun t of manpower. All the teams in the DARPA challenge are going way beyond what Jesse GED and his merry band of hacks could ever accomplish. Hate to be a snob, but does this geek-neating troglydite really deserve equal billing with other/. fare?
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If it was any bigger, it's need some tubes and a punchcard maker. Seriously, this thing looks like a computer made by Ford Motor Company in the 60's. It could comfortably seat 4 if it had doors. I really had hoped that the next generation of coders/hackers would continue the tradition of being smart. Now I weep for the future.
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This is my ALL TIME favorite post I have ever read on this site. Seriously, if I had mod points right now, I would find a way of giving you all 5, even if I had to hack the Cowboy himself!
Rarely if ever do I follow one link, let alone every link in a user post. Thanks for the laugh. Expect a suponea soon, I will need to sue you for making me snarf beer out of my nose. That shit BURNS man!
Hmmmmm, let's see. Microsoft has announced they want to get into the search engine business. Microsoft TRIES and fails to buy Google. Next step, Microsoft looks at competitors, and then hits Google with it's hammer...SCO.
Sorry, but the assurances of Darl and Microsoft that they aren't in this together are getting pretty lame. Does anti-trust by proxy violate their agreement with the feds? Seems to me Monoposoft has just found a new way of eliminating the next sexy part of the internet. They personally slayed Netscape. Now that they aren't allowed to do it mano-a-mano, they are going to try a new method. I'm taking bets now that the next M$ release has a built-in search engine on the desktop. Any takers?
Yes psycho religious people. Be they Muslim, Jewish, or Christian, they are one of the biggest problems in this world. The other is racism on either side of the issue.
Reality is, it's not a far walk from worrying about a stupid topic like PC nomenclature to worrying about some lame ass topic like abortion or homosexuals. They all fall into the intrusive prude category of religion and race. We have far larger problems in the world then "master/slave". Next thing you know, we won't be able to call connections male/female. Meanwhile, we can't feed our own populaton.
Gang warfare, poor policing in the Sheriff's department, a school district that produces idiots, and a fire department in the highest wildfire area in the world that doesn't own a single airel tanker. Yep, those board supivisors are earning their money alright. They have eliminated a benign yet useful bit of global computer nomenclature to sooth the feathers of some psycho religious county employee.
It seems to today All you see Are crappy shows on Fox That are not TV
So where the hell are those Special programs We used to watch all the time?
Regurgitate the Family Guy They rip off the Simpsons Wonder which producer Is sucking Rupert Murdoch's big ol fly
The suck-y Fam-ily GUY!!!!
This show is like a vampire. No one seems to be able to put the friggin wooden steak into it's heart! Cancelled Futurama and The Critic, but someone there LOVES this stale piece of crap.
What going after BSD means is that SCO has no case unless they can blow up an agreement made between AT&T and BSD before SCO was even involved. Basically, they will need to meet the IBM/Red Hat motion that they provide offending code as a part of the discovery process. When that happens, IBM will move for dismissal because all the "IP" SCO claims will be found to be BSD covered in some way. Basically, this just confirms that the emperor has no clothes.
"It seems man has a long, long way to go right here on Earth before worrying too much about spreading the mayhem across the stars. Our leaders act like children on a playground bullying, lying to and cheating one another and it is considered normal."
Yup, life is a bitch. Unfortunately, it may be a couple million years before humans eliminate all the issues you seem to require to move outward. Personally, I don't want a virus here on the planet, or some blind-luck asteroid to destroy every last friggin one of us while waiting. Also, people will continue to have children, consume resources, need cars, cheat, murder and steal. Frankly, I say lets export it with us. We don't have much of a choice do we? Humanity isn't perfect, so what? It's a weak argument, by weak minded individuals. Wait till we live in a utopian sopciety before we move out indeed!
Get real, pal. It will be centuries before your magical beliefs can be brought to life, and you must prepare for the distinct possibility that they cannot be carried out in any recognizable way.
And all of your whining about fixing the planet means nothing if we get hit by an asteroid or have some home-grown menace take out a good portion of the population doesn't it? I find it just as amussing that so many limited-thinking individuals like yourself feel there is some "do not pass" bar that dictates that we must solve all our problems here on the planet before we venture out like some moral policeman. Get off your moral high horse and realize that populations will continue to rise, humans will continue to consume, and we are thrashing this planet. Understand that just because human spaceflight is hard is no reason not to do it. You don't need to colonize Mars, or build inter-stellar ships to populate our own moon. We don't need to be 100% recyclable, tree hugging, everyone is fed utopians to leave orbit and attempt to survive. In the end, that is what this is all about. This planet will become a cesspool, make no doubt. Humans are flawed and greedy, I agree. Does that mean we should halt our will for survival? You know, the one that has kept us alive for a few million years already? Oh, I am sure YOU feel you are the only capable of judging whether humanity is "worthy" of getting off the friggin planet, but luckily, you aren't. The reality is that humans kill, they cheat, they get lazy. Get over it. We'll export that as much as anything else we bring with us. Boo hoo!
I appreciate your insistence that the only reason to go into space is for scientific knowledge, but I don't think your premise regarding manned space flight is correct.
All the knowledge we gain (scientific or otherwise) is ultimately tied to the fact that we must eventually leave this world if we are to grow as a species. Eventually, manufacturing, mining, and even our quality of life will depend on this.
I also don't see how burning up an unused/unfinished $13 billion dollar investment is considered a plus for all the people who have paid for it. I also don't see how you can gauge the scientific potential of the ISS before it's finished and has a full crew dedicated to experimentation and science.
I agree that we should find a way to increase NASA's budget. I believe there is no reason to down the Hubble if we can service it and it remains useful. I don't believe the way to accomplish either goal is to abandon manned spaceflight, or cannibalize it for other programs. We spend 400 billion on our military every year, surely we can find a way of cannabalizing THAT boondoggle before picking on any of NASA's current budget?
I knew it wasn't going to be included (the scouring) simply because they have to make these movies for all the hollywood consuming pleebs who wouldn't like a "sad" ending. Can't end the book with the Shire all burnt. So long as Jackson doesn't end the movies with Frodo whipping out a machine gun and filling Golem full of holes, driving him back into the fires, I'll be OK. I knew they had to dumb down this book from the beginning. Too many Brittney-loving simplebrains were not going to get it otherwise.
No, R-n-R isn't dead. Plenty of good bands out there still rocking, you just have to listen to something other than a Clear Channel subsidary stuffing RIAA created "Artists" down your throat.
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This really isn't worth being featured on Slashdot. There is no conspiracy, and the authors paranoia is just plain scary. I can't get a good article about thermo-electric engines posted, but this idiot gets this twaddle posted? Slashdot, meet Fox News, Fox News, meet Slashdot.
OK, if they have the right to impersonate an officer, when do WE get the right to impersonate an angry mob? Perhaps the long-term goal of RIAA is to get every illegal song swapper and unwitting buyer of pirated goods to wear a little yellow star with "Juden" stenciled in.
Hell, if the government lets them go that far, I am sure ovens and gas chambers in the basement of the Capitol records building in Los Angeles can't be far behind. This is utterly ridiculous. Private police forces and a government too beholden to them to actually say no.
Read The case For Mars by Robert Zubrin. You only need to pack along enough stuff to make all your supplies there.
requiring them to certify that they are in full compliance with their Unix source code agreements and are not using Unix code in Linux.
Unless I am mistaken, this is a backstep from the original letter. Certifying you have no UNIX code is far different from the whole derivative ideas crap they were claiming last time. A large company's lawyer will reply with:
Please notify us of which UNIX source codes you are referring to, as this company has no legal requirement to SCO to certify anything until you receive a favorable legal judgement. We will be happy to comply beforehand, but there is no burden on us and we require your help. If you can inform us of the violations, we will be happy to work with the programming community to eliminate any current violations once you have made us aware of them.
A letter like this will show a willingness to eliminate any copyright violation, while still putting the burden on SCO to provide actual instances of infringment. The fact that SCO is asking for the good-faith effort in the first place definitely seems a lot weaker than their previous letter.
A simple, and typical DARPA formula:
1. Announce a nice, big, open competition for ideas, welcome everyone.
2. Get everyone's papers and technical submissions for free.
3. Suddenly, cut the field to 25 well-qualified, well-financed groups. Forget you welcomed everyone.
4. Change the specifications to include some of the more innovative ideas you got, for free, from the small groups you exclude.
5. Run your "competition" touting how fair it is.
6. In the end, award the contract to Raytheon, Boeing, Lockeed. Pay them three times what the small contractor would have charged.
7. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The reason we don't innovate anymore in this country is because true innovation comes from free-thinkers. Darpa and the DOD don't get that anymore, and rely on the same old staid companies to do everything. They'll get a RC vehicle with half the capabilities they originally hoped for at three times the price. Who needs innovation? Just keep feeding the defense-contract monster.
A Fungal, crystal, or bio-bloom on top of the ice could easily be that large if it received no competition, and had enough nutrients. It's not a buch, because there is no shadow to speak of. It does resemble a crystal growth quite closely. It even has the fractal edges to it. I don't know what it is, but I can't dismiss it quite as easily.
Sorry, don't expect UAVs to be taking you anywhere in the next 100 years. They are great for military application, but UAVs have a horrible record of dealing with anomalies like crosswind landings and takeoffs. They do poorly in common emergencies, not to mention uncommon ones. I am sure the tweaking and coding will continue to improve, but no one would or should feel safe geting aboard a commercial aircraft with 250 passengers run by HAL 9000.
Yes, many GA accidents are pilot error. A good share of passenger accidents are as well. What you don't see in NTSB reports are how many equipment failure and accident avoidance incidents are corrected/saved each year by pilots. You don't hear about the aircraft that manage to land with an onboard fire that incapicates the computers. Those are all future "pilot errors" we can all look forward to in a pilotless cockpit. The day may come when pilots are replaced, but it will be a long time before a pilot (who knows the dangers in the sky) gets aboard one of these planes as a passenger. Why should you be any different.
Read on Groklaw, and thought it was funny there. Thanks for bringing it over. And yes, Brent (whomever and wherever he is) gets universal positive karma for making me laugh twice this morning.
However, there is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress.
Yes. They work for SCO right?
Another laugher, developers in other parts of the world don't believe in US Congressionally mandated copyright laws? They don't have to idiot-Darl.
Those better be soy-dogs!
Slashdot must be really be scraping the bottom of the barrel for this story. With a group of experts, and a $3000 budget, and lots of time, Jesse James manages to barely finish his wundercars each show. The guys from Junkyard Wars made two in 10 hours with the same amoun t of manpower. All the teams in the DARPA challenge are going way beyond what Jesse GED and his merry band of hacks could ever accomplish. Hate to be a snob, but does this geek-neating troglydite really deserve equal billing with other /. fare?
If it was any bigger, it's need some tubes and a punchcard maker. Seriously, this thing looks like a computer made by Ford Motor Company in the 60's. It could comfortably seat 4 if it had doors. I really had hoped that the next generation of coders/hackers would continue the tradition of being smart. Now I weep for the future.
This is my ALL TIME favorite post I have ever read on this site. Seriously, if I had mod points right now, I would find a way of giving you all 5, even if I had to hack the Cowboy himself!
Rarely if ever do I follow one link, let alone every link in a user post. Thanks for the laugh. Expect a suponea soon, I will need to sue you for making me snarf beer out of my nose. That shit BURNS man!
Hmmmmm, let's see. Microsoft has announced they want to get into the search engine business. Microsoft TRIES and fails to buy Google. Next step, Microsoft looks at competitors, and then hits Google with it's hammer...SCO.
Sorry, but the assurances of Darl and Microsoft that they aren't in this together are getting pretty lame. Does anti-trust by proxy violate their agreement with the feds? Seems to me Monoposoft has just found a new way of eliminating the next sexy part of the internet. They personally slayed Netscape. Now that they aren't allowed to do it mano-a-mano, they are going to try a new method. I'm taking bets now that the next M$ release has a built-in search engine on the desktop. Any takers?
Yes psycho religious people. Be they Muslim, Jewish, or Christian, they are one of the biggest problems in this world. The other is racism on either side of the issue.
Reality is, it's not a far walk from worrying about a stupid topic like PC nomenclature to worrying about some lame ass topic like abortion or homosexuals. They all fall into the intrusive prude category of religion and race. We have far larger problems in the world then "master/slave". Next thing you know, we won't be able to call connections male/female. Meanwhile, we can't feed our own populaton.
Gang warfare, poor policing in the Sheriff's department, a school district that produces idiots, and a fire department in the highest wildfire area in the world that doesn't own a single airel tanker. Yep, those board supivisors are earning their money alright. They have eliminated a benign yet useful bit of global computer nomenclature to sooth the feathers of some psycho religious county employee.
I guess there are a lot of losers who believe that, I was modded down by you guys because I think the show stinks. How petulant.
It seems to today
All you see
Are crappy shows on Fox
That are not TV
So where the hell are those
Special programs
We used to watch all the time?
Regurgitate the Family Guy
They rip off the Simpsons
Wonder which producer
Is sucking Rupert Murdoch's
big ol fly
The suck-y Fam-ily GUY!!!!
This show is like a vampire. No one seems to be able to put the friggin wooden steak into it's heart! Cancelled Futurama and The Critic, but someone there LOVES this stale piece of crap.
What going after BSD means is that SCO has no case unless they can blow up an agreement made between AT&T and BSD before SCO was even involved. Basically, they will need to meet the IBM/Red Hat motion that they provide offending code as a part of the discovery process. When that happens, IBM will move for dismissal because all the "IP" SCO claims will be found to be BSD covered in some way. Basically, this just confirms that the emperor has no clothes.
"It seems man has a long, long way to go right here on Earth before worrying too much about spreading the mayhem across the stars. Our leaders act like children on a playground bullying, lying to and cheating one another and it is considered normal."
Yup, life is a bitch. Unfortunately, it may be a couple million years before humans eliminate all the issues you seem to require to move outward. Personally, I don't want a virus here on the planet, or some blind-luck asteroid to destroy every last friggin one of us while waiting. Also, people will continue to have children, consume resources, need cars, cheat, murder and steal. Frankly, I say lets export it with us. We don't have much of a choice do we? Humanity isn't perfect, so what? It's a weak argument, by weak minded individuals. Wait till we live in a utopian sopciety before we move out indeed!
Get real, pal. It will be centuries before your magical beliefs can be brought to life, and you must prepare for the distinct possibility that they cannot be carried out in any recognizable way.
And all of your whining about fixing the planet means nothing if we get hit by an asteroid or have some home-grown menace take out a good portion of the population doesn't it? I find it just as amussing that so many limited-thinking individuals like yourself feel there is some "do not pass" bar that dictates that we must solve all our problems here on the planet before we venture out like some moral policeman. Get off your moral high horse and realize that populations will continue to rise, humans will continue to consume, and we are thrashing this planet. Understand that just because human spaceflight is hard is no reason not to do it. You don't need to colonize Mars, or build inter-stellar ships to populate our own moon. We don't need to be 100% recyclable, tree hugging, everyone is fed utopians to leave orbit and attempt to survive. In the end, that is what this is all about. This planet will become a cesspool, make no doubt. Humans are flawed and greedy, I agree. Does that mean we should halt our will for survival? You know, the one that has kept us alive for a few million years already? Oh, I am sure YOU feel you are the only capable of judging whether humanity is "worthy" of getting off the friggin planet, but luckily, you aren't. The reality is that humans kill, they cheat, they get lazy. Get over it. We'll export that as much as anything else we bring with us. Boo hoo!
I appreciate your insistence that the only reason to go into space is for scientific knowledge, but I don't think your premise regarding manned space flight is correct.
All the knowledge we gain (scientific or otherwise) is ultimately tied to the fact that we must eventually leave this world if we are to grow as a species. Eventually, manufacturing, mining, and even our quality of life will depend on this.
I also don't see how burning up an unused/unfinished $13 billion dollar investment is considered a plus for all the people who have paid for it. I also don't see how you can gauge the scientific potential of the ISS before it's finished and has a full crew dedicated to experimentation and science.
I agree that we should find a way to increase NASA's budget. I believe there is no reason to down the Hubble if we can service it and it remains useful. I don't believe the way to accomplish either goal is to abandon manned spaceflight, or cannibalize it for other programs. We spend 400 billion on our military every year, surely we can find a way of cannabalizing THAT boondoggle before picking on any of NASA's current budget?
I knew it wasn't going to be included (the scouring) simply because they have to make these movies for all the hollywood consuming pleebs who wouldn't like a "sad" ending. Can't end the book with the Shire all burnt. So long as Jackson doesn't end the movies with Frodo whipping out a machine gun and filling Golem full of holes, driving him back into the fires, I'll be OK. I knew they had to dumb down this book from the beginning. Too many Brittney-loving simplebrains were not going to get it otherwise.
No, R-n-R isn't dead. Plenty of good bands out there still rocking, you just have to listen to something other than a Clear Channel subsidary stuffing RIAA created "Artists" down your throat.
Always question the person who proclaims a thing dead. Ask if they gain anything from the death. If so, assume they are full of shit.