Has anyone, besides SCO, looked at the Linux code and tried to determine what might have come from SCO, and what might have come from a common predecessor?
I have heard that ancestral Unix code is available out there somewhere, and if I could get it in electronic form I'd start a big ol' compare process, but I don't know where to look. If you know, tell me. I've got a dual-Athlon machine that needs work.
Why hasn't someone run the Sys V and Linux code through a copied code detector program (like some college professors use to stop code copying on assignments)
Well, I would if I could find SysV code. Anyone know where? I heard it was available for download for a while...
Where can I get the Unix System V source?
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I've got a dual-Athlon computer with nothing much to do right now, so I figure I can whip up some scripts to extract comments from source files, and then do a big-ol brute-force compare to try to find similar
comments between the Linux source and the old SysV source which I gather is what SCO's worried about.
But I need to actually have the source in electronic form. Is there any place to get it (legally)?
...I've served as a senior software developer as a contractor for the US Air Force. That portion of my life's work is protecting your sorry ass right now. So Fuck Off.
I love this attitude. Sounds just like the bit from "A Few Good Men": 'I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it.'
Problem is, as a citizen of the United States, it's not my privilege but my duty to question the manner in which my security is provided, because ultimately the people who do so work for me. It's my responsibility. I vote fo rit and I pay for it.
The other fun part is the way that many (note: not all, and from what I've seen not most) military types hold civilians in contempt. If you don't think we're worth defending, why the hell are you doing the job?
Besides which, if you love our country you've got to love the civilians. A body made up entirely of immune cells isn't going to last too long...
My dreams just got really, really strange. I have surreal dreams normally but for the month and a half I was on the pills I had the weirdest of my life. Not scary, not delightful, just odd.
The Statue of Liberty lays an egg and then has to defend it against King Kong in a parking lot, but then they both kind of morph into sort of African tribal sculptures, and then there's a bunch of cartoon cells and viruses swirling around...
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Weel, patents are a problem, but because of the stupid laws it's actually worse for the kernel types to check patents! If they do, they open themselves up to the charge of "willful violation" and triple damages; if they can plausibly plead ignorance the risk is much lower.
Walk the street at night, point it at any visible TV-set and turn the volume to the max.
Window glass tends to absorb infrared. This won't work from the sidewalk, and might not work if you were pressed up against the window. Maybe in the summer when there are just screens... of course, should you wake up someone's small children, expect vigilante justice. Parents are at their most dangerous when sleep-deprived.
...your brain is the result of such random, uncontrolled events. How then can you possibly trust ANY thought that your brain has, including the idea that there is no God?
You think you understand evolution, but you don't. Had you actually done any studying, you would know that evolution is composed of two parts: mutation (and gene duplication, chromosome duplication, etc.), which is random, and selection, which is definitely not random.
Grow up and read a science book. Futuyma's still a good start.
Look at Saul, who later became Paul in the New Testament of the Bible.
Of course, Saul got a personal visitation and miracle from Jesus himself. I ask for no more than what Saul of Tarsus got...
I mean if your god is so amazing then why does he need to guide evolution?
Isaac Asimov had a short story about this. If an alien saw us playing pool, he'd be confused. "Why bother using that inefficient stick to poke a ball to knock the other balls into the pockets? You've got hands, why not just grab them and stuff them in the pockets?"
The proposal was that God used inefficient, roundabout means for its own amusement, like a "trick shot" in pool. The punchline was...
spoiler...
...when one character noted that we humans were developing computers and AI at roughly the same time as nuclear weapons. Perhaps we were being set up to make our successors and then clear ourselves off the stage...
Well, back in '86 I got a $20 bill from 1937. I still have it. Looks almost like the pre-1990's twenty, but the printing's a bit different, and (I swear to God), the trees in the picture of the Treasury building on the back are smaller.
Someone actually updated that picture between 1937 and 1986.
...the motorola chip used was rated for a higher speed then the clock chip was set...
That was the Mac IIsi. Ran at 20MHz, but the whole system was rated for 25MHz. Management decided they didn't want it to compete with the IIci. A bit of soldering and a new clock chip, and you have 25% better performance.
(Is it 'overclocking' when it was designed to run at that speed in the first place?)
Maybe. Lighter materials (to some extent; they had the budget back then to use expensive stuff), lighter electronics, most importantly lighter batteries. That might free up some room for people to move around a little; those capsules were cramped. Simpler mechanisms all around; no spacewalks needed.
I'm not so sure about the wing, though; chutes are cheap, dumb, and reliable, and known to work. My ex-NASA buddy tells me the wing wasn't accurate enough to land on a specified bit of real estate, so they just did chutes with water landings.
The Aladin 5 was the biggest piece of shit ever released...
Amen, brother. I was lucky, mine ran stable with a TNT card, but a GF2 just killed it; I never got more than a few days without a crash. An old ATI Rage 128 flat refused to run until I basically disabled everything in the BIOS.
I could forgive this is if the gaming industry would include suggested resolution, bit-depth, etc for each game.
Some games do; at least, they do some quick benchmarks and suggest that. If nothing else, they usually offer "Fast, Better, Best" quality settings so you don't have to do too much tweaking.
A wizard that did some simple tradeoffs wouldn't be too hard. Make it downloadable and people could get an idea of how well the game would run on their system. Of course, a lot of times the game companies want you to buy the game, then upgrade in order to play it well.
Plus, some games have rough spots. The old "Aliens vs. Predator" ran well on my K6-2/500MHz-128MB RAM-16MBTNT until a swarm of aliens appeared, at which point it became a slideshow and only luck would let you survive. No game company is going to target their wizard for that situation.
Personally, I'm "lucky" in that I'm slightly colorblind and the difference between 32-bit and 16-bit color is barely noticeable; but I am a bit sensitive to framerate and resolution. Other people with better color vision may prioritize color over framerate or resolution. Making a wizard that takes this into account would be tougher.
Every spring I can tell you that the Contiental United States will warm up. Snow will melt and storms will develop in the Atlantic.
No duh. Now, if the weather were not chaotic, you could tell me exactly how many degrees it would warm up and where, and whether it would be raining May 30th in Newfoundland.
But the weather is chaotic. "Chaotic" doesn't mean "varies randomly all over the scale"; it means "varies effectively unpredictably within a defined volume of phase space". That volume of phase-space in the Sahara Desert is a lot smaller than in, say, New England, but the same kind of variations in temperature show up.
That volume of phase-space is the climate - in the Sahara, it doesn't include 30 degrees below zero, at least in this millenium.
If you can prove the weather is not chaotic, then you have a glorious future awaiting you in meteorology. You can name your price. I'm not holdimg my breath, though.
Weather does appear to be chaotic.
Weather influences when people make love. Even a small change in position, much less timing, will alter what sperm gets to the egg first.
A small change, therefore, can and will lead to an entirely different generation being born later. If that doesn't affect a society, I don't know what will.
Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get. A butterfly flapping its wings doesn't change spring into fall, but it can change sun into rain and vice versa - changes take place within a climate. No one that I've heard of claims that a butterfly can cause the destruction of the sun.
Larger, slower climactic variations do occur, and there is some evidence that they are chaotic, so in a sense a butterfly could cause an ice age, but it'd be a long time after that flapping.
Just so I'm clear, you
scavenged the DVD drive, CD-RW drive, SCSI card, Firewire card, sound card, keyboard, and mouse from my old system
... which obviously saved a bit of money.
If you'd read what I wrote, I accounted for that. I gave Apple a $250 credit for their DVD/CDRW drive, right? Plus a $200 credit 'cause I have dual 120GB drives instead of dual 180GB. Everything else is comparable (including the case... An Antec Plus 1080AMG, opens easily, extra fans, nice layout, etc.) Keyboard and mouse is lost in the noise. If you want, we'll call it $70 and now the difference is only $1000 even.
Then, on your AMD, you're likely missing FireWire...
But you clearly didn't read what I wrote, because (in the part you quoted!) I said I scavenged my Firewire card. Sure, it's 400Mbps instead of 800, but that's all my camcorder will do anyway.
And so far my 1GB of ECC RAM has performed flawlessly through several tests (overnight kernel compiles, memtest86, etc.) I fail to see what "Apple RAM" has on that.
I just this month got a dual 2GHz Athlon 2600, 1GB RAM, 2x120GB drives. I scavenged the DVD drive, CD-RW drive, SCSI card, Firewire card, sound card, keyboard, and mouse from my old system. Got a GF4 MX 440 as well. Total cost: ~$1600 (overestimate). Add in $200 for WinXP Pro (yes, I run Linux too, but I game and my wife wants her greeting cards) and we're up to $1800.
Just hit the Apple webpage, and went for the Ultimate Powermac G4 (dual PPC 1.4GHz), and customized it as close as possible to that. (1GB RAM instead of 2, GF4 MX instead of TI, etc.) Total: $3,270.00. That includes a DVD/CDRW drive, and 180GB disks instead of 120GB, though. Let's give them $250 credit for the drive, and $150 for the difference in disk size. I think that's pretty generous. Estimated comparable total: $2870.
Difference: $1070. That's enough to buy another kick-ass PC, or the lowest-end eMac plus tax.
I seriously looked at Macs; I'd really like to run OSX. But I'm not going to be able to upgrade for three to five years, so I need top-end stuff now. I just couldn't justify the Mac's price tag.
What I noticed about Ep2 in DLP was that I frequently could identify the type of fabric the actor's costumes were made of; you could see a lot more texture, not just the color and reflectivity. The cityscapes also seemed a lot more detailed than 35mm.
However, that was about it for me; noticeably better at some things, but it certainly didn't "make the picture"; I thought the movie itself was so-so. Native Imax is a wonderful experience, of course - very close to "being there", but their plots don't tend to be much better.
(On a side note, I saw one of the 3-D Imax movies, and it was very nice, except for one thing - crossfades. When fading from one scene to another in 2D, it's not much of a problem because the whole picture is in one plane of focus. But a 3D crossfade made my eyes and brain hurt - I couldn't tell what to focus on, so it was a blurry mess until the fade completed.
I don't know if I'm typical, but I think we'll need to come up with some new visual idioms when we move to 3D in a big way.)
Tell me about a compiler bug that's bitten you and how you worked around it (or better, fixed it)
The Diab M68K C compiler, 'affectionately' called "C--" where I used to work. If you had a pointer to a struct, you could dereference any field in any other struct through it.
That is to say, you could do "coordPtr->degrees", even if the definition of "struct coord" didn't have a member called "degrees". So long as any other structure in the program had a field called "degrees", it would just blindly use that offset. Much memory corruption ensued.
I personally got around it by knowing what the hell I was doing, plus ctags and such. We weren't allowed to fix it, but eventually there was a minor rebellion and we started using GCC with Cygnus support.
It is life whether or not it has a brain. The only difference between a blastula and an amoeba is that a blastula is actually a human, and then by definition a person.
Uh, no. You shed millions of live cells every day. Each one of them has your complete genetic code, and is definitely alive for at least a while. Are each of them human? In theory, they could be used to generate a clone of you - should you live in a vacuum bag and preserve all these potential people?
You cut off the hand and it is still a human hand.
Let's say we have the tech to keep any part of a human body functioning and alive. Your head is chopped off, but the ambulance only has one magic life support machine. Now, which part should the paramedics try to save - the small part with the brain, or the much bigger part with all the other organs? Which one is you?
One cannot say that one person is not a person because he or she is not far enough along with developement. That is arbitrarily setting the boundaries.
I just did. It's hard to come up with a test that positively identifies personhood, but there are broad classes of things that we can unambiguously identify as 'not persons', and 'things without brains' are in the 'not person' class. I don't see anything arbitrary about it at all.
I'm reasonably certain that the brain of a 30-day embryo probably can't really support sentience, but I can't absolutely rule it out, so I'd err on the side of caution. But if there isn't a brain at all, I have no problem saying it's not a person.
A pre-differentiated embryo is a potential person with potential rights. A fertile mother is an actual person with actual rights. Actual rights trump potential rights.
The problem with your definition of a person, is exactly what you have addressed. How many cells does it take? Can it therefore be defined as less than human because for some reason it does less than other humans comparitvely?
The question of "How much brain is needed to qualify as human?" is completely different in kind from "Is there a brain at all?".
As for your statement about forcing someone to risk their life to save another, I agree (with the notable exceptions of the Secret Service and militaries).
WTF? Since we don't have a draft, the people in the military and Secret Service volunteered to risk their lives. By definition, they aren't being "forced" to risk their lives to save others. Same goes for fire fighters, police officers, etc. That has nothing to do with anything I said.
Personally, I have a hard time thinking of something without a brain as a human being. An anencephalic baby, for example, seems like a failed attempt at a human. So, a blastula, whether implanted or not, even in the early stages of differentiation, can't be a person, even if it's composed of human tissue.
Before the brain is formed (~30 days), I don't really have a problem with abortion. Regrettable, certainly, but it's not murder or anything like that.
I don't know what the minimum number of brain cells is needed to support sentience though, and I'm squeamish and conservative, so I'd say after about 30 days there has to be a risk to the life of the mother to justify abortion. (You can't force someone to risk their life to save another.)
In the case of rape, I think the woman should start checking for pregnancy before 30 days. After that, there's at least a strong case to be made that there's another person to consider.
Yeah, right, because flying around the earth to go back in time was "getting it right"!
You can actually almost rationalize this. If you can go faster than light, you can access timelike trajectories and go backward in time.
Light goes 186,000 miles per second, so light can go all the way around the Earth (at the surface) just over seven times in one second. In the scene, Supes is at least 500 miles up, and doing more than seven laps per second, so he must be exceeding the speed of light. The blue glow of Cerenkov radiation around him confirms this.
So, it's actually not to unreasonable to suppose that he's exceeding the speed of light; the Earth isn't *really* spinning backward, he's just going back in time.
Then, of course, they spoil it by having him need so "spin up" the Earth again...
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So, when is this supposed to get in front of a judge? I need to know when to short SCO...
I have heard that ancestral Unix code is available out there somewhere, and if I could get it in electronic form I'd start a big ol' compare process, but I don't know where to look. If you know, tell me. I've got a dual-Athlon machine that needs work.
Well, I would if I could find SysV code. Anyone know where? I heard it was available for download for a while...
But I need to actually have the source in electronic form. Is there any place to get it (legally)?
I love this attitude. Sounds just like the bit from "A Few Good Men": 'I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it.'
Problem is, as a citizen of the United States, it's not my privilege but my duty to question the manner in which my security is provided, because ultimately the people who do so work for me. It's my responsibility. I vote fo rit and I pay for it.
The other fun part is the way that many (note: not all, and from what I've seen not most) military types hold civilians in contempt. If you don't think we're worth defending, why the hell are you doing the job? Besides which, if you love our country you've got to love the civilians. A body made up entirely of immune cells isn't going to last too long...
The Statue of Liberty lays an egg and then has to defend it against King Kong in a parking lot, but then they both kind of morph into sort of African tribal sculptures, and then there's a bunch of cartoon cells and viruses swirling around...
Just one of those fun legal quirks.
Window glass tends to absorb infrared. This won't work from the sidewalk, and might not work if you were pressed up against the window. Maybe in the summer when there are just screens... of course, should you wake up someone's small children, expect vigilante justice. Parents are at their most dangerous when sleep-deprived.
You think you understand evolution, but you don't. Had you actually done any studying, you would know that evolution is composed of two parts: mutation (and gene duplication, chromosome duplication, etc.), which is random, and selection, which is definitely not random.
Grow up and read a science book. Futuyma's still a good start.
Look at Saul, who later became Paul in the New Testament of the Bible.
Of course, Saul got a personal visitation and miracle from Jesus himself. I ask for no more than what Saul of Tarsus got...
Isaac Asimov had a short story about this. If an alien saw us playing pool, he'd be confused. "Why bother using that inefficient stick to poke a ball to knock the other balls into the pockets? You've got hands, why not just grab them and stuff them in the pockets?"
The proposal was that God used inefficient, roundabout means for its own amusement, like a "trick shot" in pool. The punchline was...
spoiler...
Someone actually updated that picture between 1937 and 1986.
That was the Mac IIsi. Ran at 20MHz, but the whole system was rated for 25MHz. Management decided they didn't want it to compete with the IIci. A bit of soldering and a new clock chip, and you have 25% better performance.
(Is it 'overclocking' when it was designed to run at that speed in the first place?)
I'm not so sure about the wing, though; chutes are cheap, dumb, and reliable, and known to work. My ex-NASA buddy tells me the wing wasn't accurate enough to land on a specified bit of real estate, so they just did chutes with water landings.
Amen, brother. I was lucky, mine ran stable with a TNT card, but a GF2 just killed it; I never got more than a few days without a crash. An old ATI Rage 128 flat refused to run until I basically disabled everything in the BIOS.
Definitely a troll. The very next message has RMS saying specifically that he "eats his words" and would definitely have disliked the spam.
Some games do; at least, they do some quick benchmarks and suggest that. If nothing else, they usually offer "Fast, Better, Best" quality settings so you don't have to do too much tweaking.
A wizard that did some simple tradeoffs wouldn't be too hard. Make it downloadable and people could get an idea of how well the game would run on their system. Of course, a lot of times the game companies want you to buy the game, then upgrade in order to play it well.
Plus, some games have rough spots. The old "Aliens vs. Predator" ran well on my K6-2/500MHz-128MB RAM-16MBTNT until a swarm of aliens appeared, at which point it became a slideshow and only luck would let you survive. No game company is going to target their wizard for that situation.
Personally, I'm "lucky" in that I'm slightly colorblind and the difference between 32-bit and 16-bit color is barely noticeable; but I am a bit sensitive to framerate and resolution. Other people with better color vision may prioritize color over framerate or resolution. Making a wizard that takes this into account would be tougher.
Every spring I can tell you that the Contiental United States will warm up. Snow will melt and storms will develop in the Atlantic.
No duh. Now, if the weather were not chaotic, you could tell me exactly how many degrees it would warm up and where, and whether it would be raining May 30th in Newfoundland.
But the weather is chaotic. "Chaotic" doesn't mean "varies randomly all over the scale"; it means "varies effectively unpredictably within a defined volume of phase space". That volume of phase-space in the Sahara Desert is a lot smaller than in, say, New England, but the same kind of variations in temperature show up.
That volume of phase-space is the climate - in the Sahara, it doesn't include 30 degrees below zero, at least in this millenium.
If you can prove the weather is not chaotic, then you have a glorious future awaiting you in meteorology. You can name your price. I'm not holdimg my breath, though.
Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get. A butterfly flapping its wings doesn't change spring into fall, but it can change sun into rain and vice versa - changes take place within a climate. No one that I've heard of claims that a butterfly can cause the destruction of the sun.
Larger, slower climactic variations do occur, and there is some evidence that they are chaotic, so in a sense a butterfly could cause an ice age, but it'd be a long time after that flapping.
If you'd read what I wrote, I accounted for that. I gave Apple a $250 credit for their DVD/CDRW drive, right? Plus a $200 credit 'cause I have dual 120GB drives instead of dual 180GB. Everything else is comparable (including the case... An Antec Plus 1080AMG, opens easily, extra fans, nice layout, etc.) Keyboard and mouse is lost in the noise. If you want, we'll call it $70 and now the difference is only $1000 even.
Then, on your AMD, you're likely missing FireWire...
But you clearly didn't read what I wrote, because (in the part you quoted!) I said I scavenged my Firewire card. Sure, it's 400Mbps instead of 800, but that's all my camcorder will do anyway.
And so far my 1GB of ECC RAM has performed flawlessly through several tests (overnight kernel compiles, memtest86, etc.) I fail to see what "Apple RAM" has on that.
Just hit the Apple webpage, and went for the Ultimate Powermac G4 (dual PPC 1.4GHz), and customized it as close as possible to that. (1GB RAM instead of 2, GF4 MX instead of TI, etc.) Total: $3,270.00. That includes a DVD/CDRW drive, and 180GB disks instead of 120GB, though. Let's give them $250 credit for the drive, and $150 for the difference in disk size. I think that's pretty generous. Estimated comparable total: $2870.
Difference: $1070. That's enough to buy another kick-ass PC, or the lowest-end eMac plus tax.
I seriously looked at Macs; I'd really like to run OSX. But I'm not going to be able to upgrade for three to five years, so I need top-end stuff now. I just couldn't justify the Mac's price tag.
What I noticed about Ep2 in DLP was that I frequently could identify the type of fabric the actor's costumes were made of; you could see a lot more texture, not just the color and reflectivity. The cityscapes also seemed a lot more detailed than 35mm. However, that was about it for me; noticeably better at some things, but it certainly didn't "make the picture"; I thought the movie itself was so-so. Native Imax is a wonderful experience, of course - very close to "being there", but their plots don't tend to be much better.
(On a side note, I saw one of the 3-D Imax movies, and it was very nice, except for one thing - crossfades. When fading from one scene to another in 2D, it's not much of a problem because the whole picture is in one plane of focus. But a 3D crossfade made my eyes and brain hurt - I couldn't tell what to focus on, so it was a blurry mess until the fade completed.
I don't know if I'm typical, but I think we'll need to come up with some new visual idioms when we move to 3D in a big way.)
The Diab M68K C compiler, 'affectionately' called "C--" where I used to work. If you had a pointer to a struct, you could dereference any field in any other struct through it.
That is to say, you could do "coordPtr->degrees", even if the definition of "struct coord" didn't have a member called "degrees". So long as any other structure in the program had a field called "degrees", it would just blindly use that offset. Much memory corruption ensued.
I personally got around it by knowing what the hell I was doing, plus ctags and such. We weren't allowed to fix it, but eventually there was a minor rebellion and we started using GCC with Cygnus support.
Uh, no. You shed millions of live cells every day. Each one of them has your complete genetic code, and is definitely alive for at least a while. Are each of them human? In theory, they could be used to generate a clone of you - should you live in a vacuum bag and preserve all these potential people?
You cut off the hand and it is still a human hand.
Let's say we have the tech to keep any part of a human body functioning and alive. Your head is chopped off, but the ambulance only has one magic life support machine. Now, which part should the paramedics try to save - the small part with the brain, or the much bigger part with all the other organs? Which one is you?
One cannot say that one person is not a person because he or she is not far enough along with developement. That is arbitrarily setting the boundaries.
I just did. It's hard to come up with a test that positively identifies personhood, but there are broad classes of things that we can unambiguously identify as 'not persons', and 'things without brains' are in the 'not person' class. I don't see anything arbitrary about it at all.
I'm reasonably certain that the brain of a 30-day embryo probably can't really support sentience, but I can't absolutely rule it out, so I'd err on the side of caution. But if there isn't a brain at all, I have no problem saying it's not a person. A pre-differentiated embryo is a potential person with potential rights. A fertile mother is an actual person with actual rights. Actual rights trump potential rights.
The problem with your definition of a person, is exactly what you have addressed. How many cells does it take? Can it therefore be defined as less than human because for some reason it does less than other humans comparitvely?
The question of "How much brain is needed to qualify as human?" is completely different in kind from "Is there a brain at all?".
As for your statement about forcing someone to risk their life to save another, I agree (with the notable exceptions of the Secret Service and militaries).
WTF? Since we don't have a draft, the people in the military and Secret Service volunteered to risk their lives. By definition, they aren't being "forced" to risk their lives to save others. Same goes for fire fighters, police officers, etc. That has nothing to do with anything I said.
Personally, I have a hard time thinking of something without a brain as a human being. An anencephalic baby, for example, seems like a failed attempt at a human. So, a blastula, whether implanted or not, even in the early stages of differentiation, can't be a person, even if it's composed of human tissue.
Before the brain is formed (~30 days), I don't really have a problem with abortion. Regrettable, certainly, but it's not murder or anything like that.
I don't know what the minimum number of brain cells is needed to support sentience though, and I'm squeamish and conservative, so I'd say after about 30 days there has to be a risk to the life of the mother to justify abortion. (You can't force someone to risk their life to save another.) In the case of rape, I think the woman should start checking for pregnancy before 30 days. After that, there's at least a strong case to be made that there's another person to consider.
You can actually almost rationalize this. If you can go faster than light, you can access timelike trajectories and go backward in time.
Light goes 186,000 miles per second, so light can go all the way around the Earth (at the surface) just over seven times in one second. In the scene, Supes is at least 500 miles up, and doing more than seven laps per second, so he must be exceeding the speed of light. The blue glow of Cerenkov radiation around him confirms this.
So, it's actually not to unreasonable to suppose that he's exceeding the speed of light; the Earth isn't *really* spinning backward, he's just going back in time.
Then, of course, they spoil it by having him need so "spin up" the Earth again...