>Christian fundamendalists in the US, who love acting like a persecuted minority in a country that's 85% Christian...
no we act persecuted because we are, in fact persecuted. Being a minority has got nothing to do with it. And let me guarantee you - 85% of Americans are NOT _fundamentalist_ Christians.
Blacks were a vast majority in some places in the South prior to the Civil War - were they not a persecuted majority?
call me back when i can buy a OLED monitors, 1 inch holographic memory storage cubes, electronic paper, and Duke Nukem Forever - at Best Buy.
OLEDs are just the latest vaporware (and no, i don't concider 1 fscking digital camera screen anything else but vaporware), and i've been reading the same damn articles about it for at least 5 years now... this is not gawddamned news...
i swear - i hold no hope of seeing a 17" OLED monitor before 2010 when looking at the progression of the technology.
Microsoft, IBM, and others have been stockpiling their software patents for years.. and now of late, it seems, that Apple has decided to join the fray.
I just want to know when we're finally going to go nuclear (nuculer?) with the back and forth patent infringment suits - because that's when the shits really gonna hit the fan.
And i wonder - has is not already begun? IBM, while clearly in the right wrt SCO and Linux begs the question... they "launched" a few tactical nukes in that little debate with their 8 or so patent infringment suits... while we cheer them on... should we not do so with a bit of trepidation?
Software patents are screwy and stupid... and its not going to take much pushing and shoving for all hell to break loose...
or is that for all lawyers to start raking in the dough as the cost of the judicial branch makes the US military budget look like a blip on the radar. We'll have to start cloning humans just to make enough lawyers.
Do you think that it will be "Global Thermonuclear War", where one side who's far less defenseless as SCO will actually shoot back - and then everyone starts shooting at everyone with patent infringment suits? Or will it be more gradual?
Either way... i think i should ditch this communications and networking gig, and go become a lawyer.... it soon may be the only actual viable non-outsourced job left in America by 2010.
> Normally I hate christian fundamentalist but on this subject I am right with them.
perhaps you should do more research into what we believe before you accept the Al Franken version of what the left and anti-Christians believe. Maybe ask a fundamentalist Christian who can parse full sentences and speak using only words that can be understood by a room full of non-Christians.
If you're talking to someone who uses at least 5 words per sentence that you don't understand (that is, they're speaking in Christian-ese) i would tell you to stop listening to them and keep on looking. Most TV evangelists would fall into this group you should not be listening to.
Check out the Dobsons, esp his son, Ryan, at korministries.com or ryandobson.com
If you look at those sites and would be shocked that he's a fundamentalist Christian - then I would highly encourage you to keep looking..
what you may have been led to believe are the teachings of Jesus (you have to dress a certain way, you have to speak a certain way) are fallacies by people who are flawed and self-promoting Jesus-pimps.
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
because i'm pretty savvy at getting rid of my 9-18 month old macs on eBay, i'm often turning over my computers.
twice now, i've had a machine leave me without deauthorizing it. once because i forgot to, and once because it died on me totally (iBook repair program).
So i have yet 1 machine that is authorized - and rather than do an XP-like "mother may I" call to Apple to pay for music i've paid for - i'd rather just run this app, move my music to whatever machine i've got - and keep buying more music.
there are lots of good reasons for this - few are bad - and since my ID is still attached - its not like i could easily get away with using it on a P2P anyhow.
I use iTunes because it works better than p2p, and will keep on doing so so long as Apple doesn't stop me from using what i've bought.
given that cellphones emmit a unique identifier, and given that we have directional antennas which are capable of pointing at objects deep in space - often without any need for a parabolic dish...
why would you think it was so extreme to believe that if your cell phone is on and there are 3 "telephone repair" trucks surrounding a building that it would be hard for them to pinpoint you to within a few feet?
(the man said their equipment could pinpoint a purr at 400 yards, and Erik, being such a happy cat, was a piece of cake/monty python)
is there any wonder why those who are IT personnel with tape holding their glasses together HATE Macs?
This one post alone proves beyond doubt the theory why, when Macs were so much easier to run for small business that Windows machines are preferred by the IT shops.
My iBook died - like so many other peoples' iBooks - and i had no means by which to "deauthorize" it.
Now, my wife's new Powerbook is authorized, my G5 from home is authorized - and my long-gone iBook is authorized...
i am now prevented from listening to my music as Apple authorized me to - to listen to music on my Windows machine at work.
i feel absolutely no guilt or shame using PlayFair versus burning CDs/ripping, or using iMovie (both of which would provide equal results to PlayFiar with the only difference being far more of my time wasted) to allow me to help Apple uphold their deal with me... to let me use 3 machines to listen to music i've purchased.
I also noticed when i went thru transmogrifying all my files with this "illegal" tool... i had purchased well over $300 worth of music....
concidering my CD collection has grown by 3 Dave Matthews and 1 Sting CD during the last 5 years - i'm fairly certain if they start going after folks like me to use this tool to make backups of my own, iTunes will be a loss leader.
If they just keep letting me pay them to buy music - everything will be just fine.
>why not use cheap bland hardware for backend muling?
sometimes, you're a small business and you don't want to pay someone $xxxxxx to run your backend mules. You don't know how to grok Linux email and file servers because you're a parts manufacturer, or a solar panel business, or a gift basket maker...
With Mac OS X Server and a $300 iMac off eBay and prudent backups, you could run email for 40 people and have your own webserver off your home DSL with no problem.
I only know this because i did it. They know jack shit about running computers. I did the scary part and installed the server for them (i hit "okay" a lot) and then showed them...
see this window? This is where you add users... this window shows you that your email server is running just fine.
They call me every so often to tell me that things are fine. And i get to not answer dumbass questions and watch the playoffs on ESPN.
They own their IT... their IT does not own them.
With Linux, if you're going to have geeks around, then yes, its cheaper and does everything i just mentioned at a MUCH lower cost. But if you're not a geek, and you want services like email and web servers for small business, and you want rock solid performance (not Windows shitty performance) then you're wanting Mac OS X Server.
Mac OS X Server is the greatest boon to small business i've ever seen. I have helped 4 small businesses (friends) do this - and they are all running just fine without me - and they have all the stability that they would get from a competent Linux install and a in-house geek running it.
Mac OS X Server can get a lot of low-ball geeks fired... OR it can help low-ball geeks make a lot of money serving a lot more customers. Its all in how you think about it.
"In other words," Torvalds said, "there is no code taint that I'd be afraid of, since no such tainted code exists in the kernel. There is only the issue of SCO's NDA. And, at least back then, Darl was aware of the issue, so this is not a question of misunderstanding. It's a question of Darl knowingly misrepresenting the truth."
like his code, his words are to the point and clear.
Fuck Darl, he's a kockbite.
office depot customers bought 3 days early!
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If you recall - office depot (or was it staples?) accidentally put Mac OS X 10.0 on the shelves the day it arrived in their stores - about 3 days before hand IIRC. This was the hot news on the Mac OS X websites the day this all happened.. i think smog levels went up around all the Office Depots the second the news hit.
Man...it HAS been a long time - i forget all the details - except for the one where my wife asked "Wait, did you just buy it twice? I thought you had ordered it from Apple thru your friend there?"
me: "But dude, i got it NOW!!!! Long before everyone else!!!"
Ah... i miss those days.... no sleep prior to a major OS release to be first in line at Frys....
man, i'm old now. i don't do fun things like that any more.
I know this was strictly about quality - but i think its very shortsighted to miss some of the key features WHY people like Quicktime... and its not always about the quality of watching ripped DVDs.
For example - I don't see anywhere where it points out that Quicktime and Divx are by far the most DRM-less codecs out there. WMP9 can stick you up the ass if you're not careful. Plus, there are plenty of times that WMP9 will refuse to operate properly with multi=monitor setups (my friend's brand new ThinkPad, for example, refuses to play over the external VGA port....)
i also don't see any mention of the ability to cut/copy/paste with the built-in default players as a comparison tool. How many times have you wanted just a sliver of a movie to playback - ro to have the ability to quickly convert it to DV to put onto a workflow with some other editing? Even the average goofball making iMovies wants to do that all the time - but is 100% prevented from doing that with WMP9
While the quality of QT is obviously lacking - i'll use it EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK because its far more powerful for everyday use, and much more free of DRM issues.
this would explain, of course - Hollywood's facination with it - its got great quality while sacrificing little things... like fair use.
SCO verifies that letter is real. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1542915,00. as p
do you know WHY?
because if they don't, and IBM subpoena's the email, and SCO lies about its authenticity, and they re found to have lied - then the SCO folks don't just lose money or face - they lose anal virginity when they go to pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for lying to the judge - its called "obstruction of justice"...
I hope everyone realizes that we Californias got stupid-ass electronic voting because the stupid aged retards in West Palm beach, Florida were incompetent to use PUNCH CARDS.
After that, it was the Democrat party of California that screamed for electonic voting to make it easier for their older/less educated/illegal immigrant supporters to vote in whatever language they wanted. They even had the ACLU fight the election last year because too many minorites were NOT getting electronic systems.
No sane person of either party would ever want to see electronic voting - but alas, thanks to the folks that bitched about how Gore really won (he didn't), people like Kevin Shelley of the Democrat party forced us (Californias) to use fscked up electronic voting systems.
So - if any mor of you Bush-hating hatemongers keep bitching about electronic voting - just look to California - and see that THEY complained about minorities not getting to use electronic voting - see how they tried to prevent, then overturn the outster of Davis using the arguement that minorities were being dienfranchised because they didn't get electronic systems, and how it was the Democrats in chrage of this state that have brought our election system to ruin by their own devices.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are looking to have electronic systems put in place because both shitty parties think that it will make it easier for them to rig shit in the future....
so all you Democrat hatemongers - just STFU. This stupid problem is being caused by BOTH parties.
" How exactly is there a "default candidate" on a voting machine?"
uh.... how hard is that to understand??
___ Welcome to the Deibold Sorta-voting system for the 2008 Election.
Please select your candidate for President by touching a button below...
[ ] Condi Rice [x] Al Sharpton
then press [HERE] to continue ___
the news stations (KKGO 600am in San Diego, and KFI 640 in LA) are reporting that this is happening on some of the San Digeo Deibold systems - that there are candidates showing "selected" when the screen comes up.
its not a hard concept to understand if you're using a computer-based system...
it seems to me that there is simply something inherent with voting that requires the voter to be smarter than a breadstick.
No amount of work will ever produce a computer than anyone can use - and no amount of technology will ever produce a voting system that all can use.
Quite frankly - using the fact that there's fsck-all now that can be done.
i'm here in SoCal, and the radio news channels are reportiong (its all i can get here) are reporting that in some instances, all the ballots are making the Democrat party candidate the default nominee. Either way - it would be a scandal that would (if they were honest) make the folks that bitched about 2000 flee from electronic voting in horror.
San Diego folks couldn't vote for hours because of these problems - just how the hell is this any different than the problems of 2000?
If you ask me - we (California) need to negate this election and move back to voting mechanisms that place the bulk of the risk in the hands of the voter, rather than in the hands of those who are being voted upon... at least that way, there's a lot less ability for fixing a vote by "The Man", EVEN IF it imposes upon the voter that the voter have an IQ over 42.
I'd much rather the inept lose their vote than the vast majority of non-inept voters' will be overturned by automated tampering.
this thing doesn't even look as big or as fast as the new dual engine Zagi XT, which basically is just a $250 70 mph crash just waiting to happen.:-)
holy shit - those videos are crazy.. you have better be someplace where augering in at 90 mph is not a big deal... and you better have reaction times like a rattlesnake on a triple espresso.
are you saying that companies are leaving Mass? Why would they do that? I'm sure its got nothing to do with the orwellian taxes that "The Rich" are supposed to pay.
how fscking hard is this to understand - rich people that run companies give jobs to average joes... its not a gawddamned hard concept, people. I work for rich people, and i'm cool with that. if they weren't rich, they couldn't pay me.
btw: california staved off $56 BILLION in new taxes last year - only because of the Republican 2 state senators and 6 state house reps that comprise the delta between what's necessary to pass new taxes and to kill off new tax bills...
let me repeat that...
the Cali legislature tried to pass $56 BILLION in new taxes - in one year - and 8 people stopped them. Our state's budget last year was just under $100 BILLION. It would have been $156 BILLION if not for 8 people.
holy shit, batman.
with a proposition (56) to kill off the requirement for a 2/3 majority to raise new taxes, and the teachers' unions putting out ad after ad claiming 56 is "good for California" - we should be dead in the water by 2006, and the only guy making money will be the U-Haul guy that drives the empty trucks back from Nevada, Colorado and Texas.
all those damn conservative massachusetts Republicans.... running the whole state into the ground with their damn personal invasions and tax increases on the people.
I swear, if that place was run by loving, caring democrats, this wouldn't be happening.
why the fsck Cowboy neal changed it to something which was NOT correct is beyond fscking me.
i specifically DIDN"T call it "Microsoft Recieves Patent on XML" or anything else that might resemble that because that is not what happened and i would look like a dumbass.
i just got home from an interview - over beers - so it took a while. And this is what i get home to?
remember this, the next time you read a dumb-ass subject line. It may not have been the fault of the submitter.
in any case - i shouldn't bitch too much... i'm batting better than.500 on my/. submissions.. (11 of 19)
game, set, match - Novell ends the game
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which means, that even IF IBM put SYS V in Linux - Its Novell's problem, not SCO's any more.
this is fun like watching a little kid kick a bully in the nuts fun!
Joseph A. LaSala, Jr. Senior Vice President General Counsel and Secretary
VIA FACSIMILE AND CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
February 11, 2004
Mr. Ryan Tibbitts General Counsel The SCO Group [address]
Mr. Ronald A. Lauderdale Vice-President, Assistant General Counsel International Business Machines Corporation [address]
Re: Sequent Computer Systems
Dear Counsel:
Reference is made to the following:
* Asset Purchase Agreement by and between The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. and Novell, Inc. dated as of September 19, 1995, and more particularly to Section 4.16(b) of that agreement;
* Software Agreement No. SOFT-000321, et seq., between AT&T Information Systems Inc. and Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. ("Sequent's SVRX license);
* Letters dated May 29, 2003 and August 11, 2003 from The SCO Group to Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.;
* Letter dated August 14, 2003 from IBM to The SCO Group;
* Letter dated October 7, 2003 from Novell, Inc. to The SCO Group regarding IBM Code; and
* Letter dated February 6, 2004 from Novell, Inc. to The SCO Group regarding Sequent Computer Systems.
In its February 6 letter to The SCO Group, Novell directed "SCO to waive any purported right SCO may claim to require Sequent (or IBM as its successor) to treat Sequent Code as subject to the confidentiality obligations or use restrictions of Sequent's SVRX license." The letter defined Sequent Code as code developed by Sequent, or licensed by Sequent from a third party, which Sequent incorporated in its UNIX variant but which itself does not contain proprietary UNIX code supplied by AT&T under the license agreements between AT&T and Sequent. Novell directed SCO to take this action by noon, MST, February 11, 2004.
SCO has failed to take the actions directed by Novell.
Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4.16(b) of the Asset Purchase Agreement, Novell, on behalf of The SCO Group, hereby waives any purported right SCO may claim to require Sequent (or IBM as its successor) to treat Sequent Code as subject to the confidentiality obligations or use restrictions of Sequent's SVRX license.
Sincerely,/s/ Joseph A. LaSala, Jr.
cc: Mr. Darl McBride President and CEO ________________
I would have paid him $20 to end the letter with "Thank you, drive thru".
Probably to prevent a Mac user from passing along a Windows virus to a friend who owns PC, by forwarding an infected email.
seriously - why is that any kind of an issue for me (Mac owner)?
The far more liekly scenario is that they'll get it 100X more from other windows users... getting it once for me doesn't change the fact that their system is the one that's insecure.
If it was secure, then it wouldn't matter to them, just as it doesn't matter to me.
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>Christian fundamendalists in the US, who love acting like a persecuted minority in a country that's 85% Christian ...
no we act persecuted because we are, in fact persecuted. Being a minority has got nothing to do with it. And let me guarantee you - 85% of Americans are NOT _fundamentalist_ Christians.
Blacks were a vast majority in some places in the South prior to the Civil War - were they not a persecuted majority?
call me back when i can buy a OLED monitors, 1 inch holographic memory storage cubes, electronic paper, and Duke Nukem Forever - at Best Buy.
OLEDs are just the latest vaporware (and no, i don't concider 1 fscking digital camera screen anything else but vaporware), and i've been reading the same damn articles about it for at least 5 years now... this is not gawddamned news...
i swear - i hold no hope of seeing a 17" OLED monitor before 2010 when looking at the progression of the technology.
that 64 bit viruses are twice as powerful as 32-bit ones?
Microsoft, IBM, and others have been stockpiling their software patents for years.. and now of late, it seems, that Apple has decided to join the fray.
I just want to know when we're finally going to go nuclear (nuculer?) with the back and forth patent infringment suits - because that's when the shits really gonna hit the fan.
And i wonder - has is not already begun? IBM, while clearly in the right wrt SCO and Linux begs the question... they "launched" a few tactical nukes in that little debate with their 8 or so patent infringment suits... while we cheer them on... should we not do so with a bit of trepidation?
Software patents are screwy and stupid... and its not going to take much pushing and shoving for all hell to break loose...
or is that for all lawyers to start raking in the dough as the cost of the judicial branch makes the US military budget look like a blip on the radar. We'll have to start cloning humans just to make enough lawyers.
Do you think that it will be "Global Thermonuclear War", where one side who's far less defenseless as SCO will actually shoot back - and then everyone starts shooting at everyone with patent infringment suits? Or will it be more gradual?
Either way... i think i should ditch this communications and networking gig, and go become a lawyer.... it soon may be the only actual viable non-outsourced job left in America by 2010.
> Normally I hate christian fundamentalist but on this subject I am right with them.
perhaps you should do more research into what we believe before you accept the Al Franken version of what the left and anti-Christians believe. Maybe ask a fundamentalist Christian who can parse full sentences and speak using only words that can be understood by a room full of non-Christians.
If you're talking to someone who uses at least 5 words per sentence that you don't understand (that is, they're speaking in Christian-ese) i would tell you to stop listening to them and keep on looking. Most TV evangelists would fall into this group you should not be listening to.
Check out the Dobsons, esp his son, Ryan, at korministries.com or ryandobson.com
If you look at those sites and would be shocked that he's a fundamentalist Christian - then I would highly encourage you to keep looking..
what you may have been led to believe are the teachings of Jesus (you have to dress a certain way, you have to speak a certain way) are fallacies by people who are flawed and self-promoting Jesus-pimps.
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Nostradamus - you just got served.
because i'm pretty savvy at getting rid of my 9-18 month old macs on eBay, i'm often turning over my computers.
twice now, i've had a machine leave me without deauthorizing it. once because i forgot to, and once because it died on me totally (iBook repair program).
So i have yet 1 machine that is authorized - and rather than do an XP-like "mother may I" call to Apple to pay for music i've paid for - i'd rather just run this app, move my music to whatever machine i've got - and keep buying more music.
there are lots of good reasons for this - few are bad - and since my ID is still attached - its not like i could easily get away with using it on a P2P anyhow.
I use iTunes because it works better than p2p, and will keep on doing so so long as Apple doesn't stop me from using what i've bought.
given that cellphones emmit a unique identifier, and given that we have directional antennas which are capable of pointing at objects deep in space - often without any need for a parabolic dish...
/monty python)
why would you think it was so extreme to believe that if your cell phone is on and there are 3 "telephone repair" trucks surrounding a building that it would be hard for them to pinpoint you to within a few feet?
(the man said their equipment could pinpoint a purr at 400 yards, and Erik, being such a happy cat, was a piece of cake
just curious...
is there any wonder why those who are IT personnel with tape holding their glasses together HATE Macs?
This one post alone proves beyond doubt the theory why, when Macs were so much easier to run for small business that Windows machines are preferred by the IT shops.
two little words....
Self-preservation
My iBook died - like so many other peoples' iBooks - and i had no means by which to "deauthorize" it.
Now, my wife's new Powerbook is authorized, my G5 from home is authorized - and my long-gone iBook is authorized...
i am now prevented from listening to my music as Apple authorized me to - to listen to music on my Windows machine at work.
i feel absolutely no guilt or shame using PlayFair versus burning CDs/ripping, or using iMovie (both of which would provide equal results to PlayFiar with the only difference being far more of my time wasted) to allow me to help Apple uphold their deal with me... to let me use 3 machines to listen to music i've purchased.
I also noticed when i went thru transmogrifying all my files with this "illegal" tool... i had purchased well over $300 worth of music....
concidering my CD collection has grown by 3 Dave Matthews and 1 Sting CD during the last 5 years - i'm fairly certain if they start going after folks like me to use this tool to make backups of my own, iTunes will be a loss leader.
If they just keep letting me pay them to buy music - everything will be just fine.
>why not use cheap bland hardware for backend muling?
sometimes, you're a small business and you don't want to pay someone $xxxxxx to run your backend mules. You don't know how to grok Linux email and file servers because you're a parts manufacturer, or a solar panel business, or a gift basket maker...
With Mac OS X Server and a $300 iMac off eBay and prudent backups, you could run email for 40 people and have your own webserver off your home DSL with no problem.
I only know this because i did it. They know jack shit about running computers. I did the scary part and installed the server for them (i hit "okay" a lot) and then showed them...
see this window? This is where you add users... this window shows you that your email server is running just fine.
They call me every so often to tell me that things are fine. And i get to not answer dumbass questions and watch the playoffs on ESPN.
They own their IT... their IT does not own them.
With Linux, if you're going to have geeks around, then yes, its cheaper and does everything i just mentioned at a MUCH lower cost. But if you're not a geek, and you want services like email and web servers for small business, and you want rock solid performance (not Windows shitty performance) then you're wanting Mac OS X Server.
Mac OS X Server is the greatest boon to small business i've ever seen. I have helped 4 small businesses (friends) do this - and they are all running just fine without me - and they have all the stability that they would get from a competent Linux install and a in-house geek running it.
Mac OS X Server can get a lot of low-ball geeks fired... OR it can help low-ball geeks make a lot of money serving a lot more customers. Its all in how you think about it.
"In other words," Torvalds said, "there is no code taint that I'd be afraid of, since no such tainted code exists in the kernel. There is only the issue of SCO's NDA. And, at least back then, Darl was aware of the issue, so this is not a question of misunderstanding. It's a question of Darl knowingly misrepresenting the truth."
like his code, his words are to the point and clear.
Fuck Darl, he's a kockbite.
If you recall - office depot (or was it staples?) accidentally put Mac OS X 10.0 on the shelves the day it arrived in their stores - about 3 days before hand IIRC. This was the hot news on the Mac OS X websites the day this all happened.. i think smog levels went up around all the Office Depots the second the news hit.
Man...it HAS been a long time - i forget all the details - except for the one where my wife asked "Wait, did you just buy it twice? I thought you had ordered it from Apple thru your friend there?"
me: "But dude, i got it NOW!!!! Long before everyone else!!!"
Ah... i miss those days.... no sleep prior to a major OS release to be first in line at Frys....
man, i'm old now. i don't do fun things like that any more.
I know this was strictly about quality - but i think its very shortsighted to miss some of the key features WHY people like Quicktime... and its not always about the quality of watching ripped DVDs.
For example - I don't see anywhere where it points out that Quicktime and Divx are by far the most DRM-less codecs out there. WMP9 can stick you up the ass if you're not careful. Plus, there are plenty of times that WMP9 will refuse to operate properly with multi=monitor setups (my friend's brand new ThinkPad, for example, refuses to play over the external VGA port....)
i also don't see any mention of the ability to cut/copy/paste with the built-in default players as a comparison tool. How many times have you wanted just a sliver of a movie to playback - ro to have the ability to quickly convert it to DV to put onto a workflow with some other editing? Even the average goofball making iMovies wants to do that all the time - but is 100% prevented from doing that with WMP9
While the quality of QT is obviously lacking - i'll use it EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK because its far more powerful for everyday use, and much more free of DRM issues.
this would explain, of course - Hollywood's facination with it - its got great quality while sacrificing little things... like fair use.
SCO verifies that letter is real.. as p
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1542915,00
do you know WHY?
because if they don't, and IBM subpoena's the email, and SCO lies about its authenticity, and they re found to have lied - then the SCO folks don't just lose money or face - they lose anal virginity when they go to pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for lying to the judge - its called "obstruction of justice"...
did no one learn ANYTHING from Bill Clinton?
I hope everyone realizes that we Californias got stupid-ass electronic voting because the stupid aged retards in West Palm beach, Florida were incompetent to use PUNCH CARDS.
After that, it was the Democrat party of California that screamed for electonic voting to make it easier for their older/less educated/illegal immigrant supporters to vote in whatever language they wanted. They even had the ACLU fight the election last year because too many minorites were NOT getting electronic systems.
No sane person of either party would ever want to see electronic voting - but alas, thanks to the folks that bitched about how Gore really won (he didn't), people like Kevin Shelley of the Democrat party forced us (Californias) to use fscked up electronic voting systems.
So - if any mor of you Bush-hating hatemongers keep bitching about electronic voting - just look to California - and see that THEY complained about minorities not getting to use electronic voting - see how they tried to prevent, then overturn the outster of Davis using the arguement that minorities were being dienfranchised because they didn't get electronic systems, and how it was the Democrats in chrage of this state that have brought our election system to ruin by their own devices.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are looking to have electronic systems put in place because both shitty parties think that it will make it easier for them to rig shit in the future....
so all you Democrat hatemongers - just STFU. This stupid problem is being caused by BOTH parties.
" How exactly is there a "default candidate" on a voting machine?"
uh.... how hard is that to understand??
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Welcome to the Deibold Sorta-voting system for the 2008 Election.
Please select your candidate for President by touching a button below...
[ ] Condi Rice
[x] Al Sharpton
then press [HERE] to continue
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the news stations (KKGO 600am in San Diego, and KFI 640 in LA) are reporting that this is happening on some of the San Digeo Deibold systems - that there are candidates showing "selected" when the screen comes up.
its not a hard concept to understand if you're using a computer-based system...
it seems to me that there is simply something inherent with voting that requires the voter to be smarter than a breadstick.
No amount of work will ever produce a computer than anyone can use - and no amount of technology will ever produce a voting system that all can use.
Quite frankly - using the fact that there's fsck-all now that can be done.
i'm here in SoCal, and the radio news channels are reportiong (its all i can get here) are reporting that in some instances, all the ballots are making the Democrat party candidate the default nominee. Either way - it would be a scandal that would (if they were honest) make the folks that bitched about 2000 flee from electronic voting in horror.
San Diego folks couldn't vote for hours because of these problems - just how the hell is this any different than the problems of 2000?
If you ask me - we (California) need to negate this election and move back to voting mechanisms that place the bulk of the risk in the hands of the voter, rather than in the hands of those who are being voted upon... at least that way, there's a lot less ability for fixing a vote by "The Man", EVEN IF it imposes upon the voter that the voter have an IQ over 42.
I'd much rather the inept lose their vote than the vast majority of non-inept voters' will be overturned by automated tampering.
color me unimpressed...
:-)
i've been flying Zagi flying wings for about 2 years now..
bfd.
this thing doesn't even look as big or as fast as the new dual engine Zagi XT, which basically is just a $250 70 mph crash just waiting to happen.
holy shit - those videos are crazy.. you have better be someplace where augering in at 90 mph is not a big deal... and you better have reaction times like a rattlesnake on a triple espresso.
are you saying that companies are leaving Mass? Why would they do that? I'm sure its got nothing to do with the orwellian taxes that "The Rich" are supposed to pay.
how fscking hard is this to understand - rich people that run companies give jobs to average joes... its not a gawddamned hard concept, people. I work for rich people, and i'm cool with that. if they weren't rich, they couldn't pay me.
btw: california staved off $56 BILLION in new taxes last year - only because of the Republican 2 state senators and 6 state house reps that comprise the delta between what's necessary to pass new taxes and to kill off new tax bills...
let me repeat that...
the Cali legislature tried to pass $56 BILLION in new taxes - in one year - and 8 people stopped them. Our state's budget last year was just under $100 BILLION. It would have been $156 BILLION if not for 8 people.
holy shit, batman.
with a proposition (56) to kill off the requirement for a 2/3 majority to raise new taxes, and the teachers' unions putting out ad after ad claiming 56 is "good for California" - we should be dead in the water by 2006, and the only guy making money will be the U-Haul guy that drives the empty trucks back from Nevada, Colorado and Texas.
I swear, if that place was run by loving, caring democrats, this wouldn't be happening.
this is what causes UT 2004 demo to crap out at the spash screen.
for what its worth - i submitted the headline as
.500 on my /. submissions.. (11 of 19)
"Microsoft Patents 'XML Scripting'"
which is 100% factually correct.
why the fsck Cowboy neal changed it to something which was NOT correct is beyond fscking me.
i specifically DIDN"T call it "Microsoft Recieves Patent on XML" or anything else that might resemble that because that is not what happened and i would look like a dumbass.
i just got home from an interview - over beers - so it took a while. And this is what i get home to?
remember this, the next time you read a dumb-ass subject line. It may not have been the fault of the submitter.
in any case - i shouldn't bitch too much... i'm batting better than
Groklaw headline - Novell waives all SCO rights to Sequent and its SVRX License
/s/ Joseph A. LaSala, Jr.
which means, that even IF IBM put SYS V in Linux - Its Novell's problem, not SCO's any more.
this is fun like watching a little kid kick a bully in the nuts fun!
Joseph A. LaSala, Jr.
Senior Vice President
General Counsel and Secretary
VIA FACSIMILE AND CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
February 11, 2004
Mr. Ryan Tibbitts
General Counsel
The SCO Group
[address]
Mr. Ronald A. Lauderdale
Vice-President, Assistant General Counsel
International Business Machines Corporation
[address]
Re: Sequent Computer Systems
Dear Counsel:
Reference is made to the following:
* Asset Purchase Agreement by and between The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. and Novell, Inc. dated as of September 19, 1995, and more particularly to Section 4.16(b) of that agreement;
* Software Agreement No. SOFT-000321, et seq., between AT&T Information Systems Inc. and Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. ("Sequent's SVRX license);
* Letters dated May 29, 2003 and August 11, 2003 from The SCO Group to Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.;
* Letter dated August 14, 2003 from IBM to The SCO Group;
* Letter dated October 7, 2003 from Novell, Inc. to The SCO Group regarding IBM Code; and
* Letter dated February 6, 2004 from Novell, Inc. to The SCO Group regarding Sequent Computer Systems.
In its February 6 letter to The SCO Group, Novell directed "SCO to waive any purported right SCO may claim to require Sequent (or IBM as its successor) to treat Sequent Code as subject to the confidentiality obligations or use restrictions of Sequent's SVRX license." The letter defined Sequent Code as code developed by Sequent, or licensed by Sequent from a third party, which Sequent incorporated in its UNIX variant but which itself does not contain proprietary UNIX code supplied by AT&T under the license agreements between AT&T and Sequent. Novell directed SCO to take this action by noon, MST, February 11, 2004.
SCO has failed to take the actions directed by Novell.
Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4.16(b) of the Asset Purchase Agreement, Novell, on behalf of The SCO Group, hereby waives any purported right SCO may claim to require Sequent (or IBM as its successor) to treat Sequent Code as subject to the confidentiality obligations or use restrictions of Sequent's SVRX license.
Sincerely,
cc: Mr. Darl McBride
President and CEO
________________
I would have paid him $20 to end the letter with "Thank you, drive thru".
seriously - why is that any kind of an issue for me (Mac owner)?
The far more liekly scenario is that they'll get it 100X more from other windows users... getting it once for me doesn't change the fact that their system is the one that's insecure.
If it was secure, then it wouldn't matter to them, just as it doesn't matter to me.