I do not live in America, but shouldnt there be a lot of people reporting SCO to the appropriate governmental Body that oversees frauds in the stockmarket? (SEC)
For p&d (pump and dump) to actually occur, SCO must be shown to be making false claims for the purpose of increasing their stock. At this point that cannot be determined (legally) since nothing has been proven in a court of law. That doesn't mean the SEC isn't watching.
The FTC might also be watching, since interstate commerce is involved.
Are they waiting until the hammer falls (most likely) in heavy disfavor to Sco?
I think they have to wait. I do hope they are watching.
(Holy Shit, Batman, did I actually say I hoped the government was watching?)
"Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom I'm going to pop a vein! Afirca is not a country, it's a continent."
That's great, quote only part of the sentence and then bitch about the meaning of the partial quote. You're a genius.
Try this, Sparky. The first part of the sentence from which you snipped the above quote is: According to Wired News, South Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom and its international partners...
It appears this is "South Africa's" state-run utility.
Clueless fucking moderators need to learn how to read, also.
Large batch produced CDs (such as music CDs, AOL CDs etc) are manufactured by stamping the CD pits into a thin layer of aluminium.
No, this is totally wrong. Audio CDs and CD-ROMs (not the CD-R/RW types) are made by hot, high pressure injection molding of polycarbonate against a negative of the pits and lands. Then a layer of pure aluminum is sputtered onto this pit-and-land imprinted plastic disk. A layer of clear lacquer is then applied on top of the aluminum to protect it. Silk screen or offset printing follows.
Consider that most people have net worths of $46 thousand or less, he's doing the equivalent of John Q. Citizen writing two checks for five hundred bucks.
Not entirely accurate. JQC's net will be distributed much differently than Mr. Bill's.
Plus Mr. Bill can't as easily realize his net worth as JQC can. JQC can sell his car and personal possessions relatively easily. Most of Gate's wealth is in the form of MSFT shares. Sure, he can sell them on NASDAQ and the over the counter markets, but then capitalism will come into play.
Stock markets, when not manipulated by crooked mutual fund managers and insiders, are pretty much a true supply/demand situation. If Gates was to sell any significant number of shares it would create an inbalance towards supply, reducing the price. Add to that the fact that his trades must be public, which means other investors will know he is selling, which will alter their opinion of the value of the stock, and the price will drop even further.
A better way (TM) is to gift MSFT shares to the various charities, which will eliminate the second point above. Also, they will probably not try to sell all at once, but spread their sales out over months and years, reducing the impact on the supply/demand equation.
Another possible way to prevent Gates' sale/gift (and then sale by the giftee) from effecting the other shareholders' equity is for these sales to be offset by Microsoft buying up, and retiring, an equal number of shares at about the same rate. This will (mostly) eliminate the supply/demand imbalances.
Remember, the job of the board of directors of all public companies is to maximize shareholder equity. If Gates sold any significant amound of his shares is would reduce sharehold equity and he would be in violation of his fiduciary duties.
(GACK! It almost feels like I'm Gates' side after that.)
As the wealthiest person on the planet, I think it is fair to expect real generosity and not just good bookkeeping.
Maybe Mr. Bill was too busy trying to take over the computing world.
Consider the differences between bulk blank CD-Rs and CD-ROMs in jewel cases with graphics, shrink wrap, labels, spine labels and bar codes. Big difference there, Sparky.
Manufacturing cost difference for the disc ONLY, around 7 years ago (when CD-Rs were VERY expensive vs. today), was about 2:1. The Krausse-Maffei exquipment for CD-Rs was about double, and there were other material differences. The company I worked for back then moved to a suburb of Nashville, I didn't, so don't know anything more current.
Robert Holman II 4617 E Holiday Estate Court Granbury, TX 76049 US Phone: (817) 326-6107 Fax..: (817) 326-5066
Gee, Granbury is just a few miles southwest of Ft. Worth, TX. Think there might be a few trick or treaters showing up at this slimeball's door tomorrow night?
And no one would even think of going to a local bookstore and grab a subscription postcard from all the magazines on the rack, fill in this slimeball's name and mail them in. Would they?
I doubt a flash card costs less in materials than a DVD, since all a DVD consists of is a small plastic wafer and metallic film. That boils down to much, much less than a penny in materials.
Not even close. The polycarbonate might be less than a penny, but that is a very small part of making a DVD/CD. Years ago break even on audio CDs or CD-ROMs was around US$.56-US$.60 per disc, including mastering and packaging.
Mastering was a flat rate of about US$1500 per title. Each CD replicator (from Krausse-Maffei) cost about US$1.7 million delivered and could kick out a finished disc every 4.2 seconds at full speed. Then silk-screen or offset (cost more), and packaging (jewel case, graphics, shrink wrap, bar codes, spine lables and other special labels).
Did I mention that I used to be the network engineer for a CD replicator?
As I read PJ's comments on Groklaw an interesting thought come up. Is SCO fishing for IBM's AIX and related source code? SCO wants IBM to supply all kinds of IBM code as part of discovery, ostensibly so SCO kind find infringing derivative works or some such. SCO's (remaining 2 or 3) coders will have access to it, without NDA or non-compete or the like. SCO could then incorporate IBM's IP into UnixWare in the future, possibly making UnixWare semi-marketable.
Think about it. UnixWare sucks. Sales have been down every year for some time now. SCO can't figure out how other Unix licensees make a better Unix than the One True Unix, which is SCO's. (Original AT&T codebase at least) So the decide to steal it, right out in the open with a U.S. court watching them do it.
Crazy you ask? Does anything SCO has done so far look entirely sane?
But guns are the only machine whose primary function is to do damage to a target.
By your (wrong) definition a three hole punch is a weapon. (An evil ASSAULT WEAPON, it punches three wholes with every operation!) A three hole punch punches holes in paper, my guns punch holes in paper.
But guns are special in that their primary functionality as a machine is as a weapon.
Yes, guns are special. The ownership of them by the common man (or woman) is protected by the U.S. Constitution
You seem to have "movie watchers' syndrome". Only in the movies are guns exclusively used as weapons of agression.
Actually, it will be both funny and sad when/if this stuff is actually used. Funny since it won't work on me, marketing shit never has. Sometimes it's really funny how hard they try. Sad in seeing the number of dogs-drooling-at-Pavlov's-bell types wondering around, unaware of their plight...
Tax barriers? What tax barriers? What country has these tax barriers?
Yes, I know, the US has a very onerous tax structure. One of the reasons I didn't go into farming. But that doesn't stop one starving Rwandan from getting some corn meal or wheat flour. (or a nice pound of ground round that ate corn for the last 1000 lbs of its life)
How about the evil Marxist dictators that are the real cause of most countries' food shortages? Spread some democracy and capitalism around and you will fix more hunger than anything else. It will last much longer than JAH (Just Another Handout).
In the Great State of Nebraska, we have taken 1.1 million acres of land out of production in the last 20 years or so. About 20% of our current corn production is being fermented into alcohol for use in E10 (Ethanol, 90% gas, 10% grain alcohol). Corn is still selling for less per bushel (currently around US$2/bu.) than it did 25 years ago (US$2.5/bu. give or take 2 bits) when I did field work for a seed corn dealer (a guy that raises the seed corn that other farmers buy to plant next year that becomes field corn that is made into corn flakes, alcohol, feed and hundreds of other things).
Why? We grow more corn than there is any possible need for as food. Per acre production is up about 50% in those 25 years. Last season a farmer in Iowa got test plots over 340 bu./acre. Dryland. That's FUCKING INCREDIBLE!!! Roundup-ready and corn root worm resistant varieties, plus the ever increasing yields via hybridization will continue to increase these yields.
Oh yeah, most of Nebraska is in a 4 year old drought, extreme conditions in the West and Southwest parts of the state. We will still have our second or third largest harvest of corn this year on record. Most of the corn is raised in less drought stressed areas, but it's been dry everywhere in this state for the last 2 years.
As for fixing the starvation problem, that has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of food available world-wide. Those people are starving because of three primary reasons: no or not enough local production; no source of hard currency or trade material to acquire food on the open market (what, you want farmers to give it away? Or maybe us taxpayers should foot the bill?); and the most common reason, evil Marxist dictators running (can it even be called 'running'? ruining is more apropos) these "poor" countries. These dictators often are the cause of reason 2, since they steal all the countries assets to build themselves lavish Presidential Palaces, buy expensive European cars and jewelry, etc...
Of course I click through ALL MS ads on every site. I also click through other evil companies ads sometimes. My little contribution to/., et al may not be much, and it certainly won't break the bank at MS, but if everyone does it, everytime...
At least/. and OSDN can pay their utility bills...
IBM is introducing their lates server line, the IBM ButterKnife series
Wouldn't that be something like the iServer uSeries?
cluster of up to 200 MS Pocket PC's
I thought IBM and MS didn't like each other any more? IBM is pushing Linux on all their other hardware, why would the iServer uSeries be any different?
Back when I was a doorman/bouncer, we used this thing called a memory.
You too, eh? We're so old school.
I also used this very un-PC technique now called "profiling". It wasn't all that difficult to judge someone fairly accurately by watching them come in the door. I NEVER worked the door. Checking IDs is for bartenders or someone else. I'm the cooler. All issues go through me first, last and everything in between. And I have the scars to prove it.
One thing this new procedure will do is make bouncers a mere commodity. Bar owners/managers will no longer have to invest as much time in finding quality men to do this job.
I imagine the large "clubs" are the ones that will use this. I've always worked medium to large (100-175 capacity) working class neighborhood bars. Rough crowds, generally good people, some would even watch my back during a scuffle.
Great, now PC BIOSes will be wide open to virus infection. Think the virus outbreak this past summer was bad? Just wait until there are thousands of zombie machines with a hosed BIOS spewing Swen emails.
Antivirus software will have to be in the BIOS also.
RFID detector
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· Score: 4, Interesting
We may not be able to stop companies from putting RFID tags on their stuff, which becomes *our* stuff when we buy it, but we sure as hell can find these tags and remove or destroy them after purchase.
How difficult would it be to build your own RFID detector? If it is too difficult for Joe and Jane Average, how much might one cost at WalMart/Target/Walgreens/geektoys.com?
Somebody want to start a business making these? I have a manufacturing background...
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Anybody else old enough to remember the movie?
Ahem,
"Gumball"
I do not live in America, but shouldnt there be a lot of people reporting SCO to the appropriate governmental Body that oversees frauds in the stockmarket? (SEC)
For p&d (pump and dump) to actually occur, SCO must be shown to be making false claims for the purpose of increasing their stock. At this point that cannot be determined (legally) since nothing has been proven in a court of law. That doesn't mean the SEC isn't watching.
The FTC might also be watching, since interstate commerce is involved.
Are they waiting until the hammer falls (most likely) in heavy disfavor to Sco?
I think they have to wait. I do hope they are watching.
(Holy Shit, Batman, did I actually say I hoped the government was watching?)
You wouldn't want to be blamed for something you had no hand in, would you?
Spoken like someone who has never been married.
"Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom ."
I'm going to pop a vein! Afirca is not a country, it's a continent
That's great, quote only part of the sentence and then bitch about the meaning of the partial quote. You're a genius.
Try this, Sparky. The first part of the sentence from which you snipped the above quote is:
According to Wired News, South Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom and its international partners...
It appears this is "South Africa's" state-run utility.
Clueless fucking moderators need to learn how to read, also.
... is currently being run by the U.S. Goverment. It's called Social Security.
WD-40 never has been a lubricant. It is designed as a (W)ater (D)isplacement.
If you can get white lithium grease inside the bearings that would be the best, next I would use a silicone oil or mineral oil.
Large batch produced CDs (such as music CDs, AOL CDs etc) are manufactured by stamping the CD pits into a thin layer of aluminium.
No, this is totally wrong. Audio CDs and CD-ROMs (not the CD-R/RW types) are made by hot, high pressure injection molding of polycarbonate against a negative of the pits and lands. Then a layer of pure aluminum is sputtered onto this pit-and-land imprinted plastic disk. A layer of clear lacquer is then applied on top of the aluminum to protect it. Silk screen or offset printing follows.
I worked at a CD replicator from 1993-1996.
So you're the goatse.cx guy!
I suggested something like this just a few days ago...
Consider that most people have net worths of $46 thousand or less, he's doing the equivalent of John Q. Citizen writing two checks for five hundred bucks.
Not entirely accurate. JQC's net will be distributed much differently than Mr. Bill's.
Plus Mr. Bill can't as easily realize his net worth as JQC can. JQC can sell his car and personal possessions relatively easily. Most of Gate's wealth is in the form of MSFT shares. Sure, he can sell them on NASDAQ and the over the counter markets, but then capitalism will come into play.
Stock markets, when not manipulated by crooked mutual fund managers and insiders, are pretty much a true supply/demand situation. If Gates was to sell any significant number of shares it would create an inbalance towards supply, reducing the price. Add to that the fact that his trades must be public, which means other investors will know he is selling, which will alter their opinion of the value of the stock, and the price will drop even further.
A better way (TM) is to gift MSFT shares to the various charities, which will eliminate the second point above. Also, they will probably not try to sell all at once, but spread their sales out over months and years, reducing the impact on the supply/demand equation.
Another possible way to prevent Gates' sale/gift (and then sale by the giftee) from effecting the other shareholders' equity is for these sales to be offset by Microsoft buying up, and retiring, an equal number of shares at about the same rate. This will (mostly) eliminate the supply/demand imbalances.
Remember, the job of the board of directors of all public companies is to maximize shareholder equity. If Gates sold any significant amound of his shares is would reduce sharehold equity and he would be in violation of his fiduciary duties.
(GACK! It almost feels like I'm Gates' side after that.)
As the wealthiest person on the planet, I think it is fair to expect real generosity and not just good bookkeeping.
Maybe Mr. Bill was too busy trying to take over the computing world.
Living happily MSFT-free since 1998.
Consider the differences between bulk blank CD-Rs and CD-ROMs in jewel cases with graphics, shrink wrap, labels, spine labels and bar codes. Big difference there, Sparky.
Manufacturing cost difference for the disc ONLY, around 7 years ago (when CD-Rs were VERY expensive vs. today), was about 2:1. The Krausse-Maffei exquipment for CD-Rs was about double, and there were other material differences. The company I worked for back then moved to a suburb of Nashville, I didn't, so don't know anything more current.
Robert Holman II
4617 E Holiday Estate Court
Granbury, TX 76049
US
Phone: (817) 326-6107
Fax..: (817) 326-5066
Gee, Granbury is just a few miles southwest of Ft. Worth, TX. Think there might be a few trick or treaters showing up at this slimeball's door tomorrow night?
And no one would even think of going to a local bookstore and grab a subscription postcard from all the magazines on the rack, fill in this slimeball's name and mail them in. Would they?
WOULD THEY??
Any body bringing in a "Bad Guy" gets a reward.
There would need to be some sort of international "Most Wanted" poster.
Could use this for getting virus/worm authors, also.
I doubt a flash card costs less in materials than a DVD, since all a DVD consists of is a small plastic wafer and metallic film. That boils down to much, much less than a penny in materials.
Not even close. The polycarbonate might be less than a penny, but that is a very small part of making a DVD/CD. Years ago break even on audio CDs or CD-ROMs was around US$.56-US$.60 per disc, including mastering and packaging.
Mastering was a flat rate of about US$1500 per title. Each CD replicator (from Krausse-Maffei) cost about US$1.7 million delivered and could kick out a finished disc every 4.2 seconds at full speed. Then silk-screen or offset (cost more), and packaging (jewel case, graphics, shrink wrap, bar codes, spine lables and other special labels).
Did I mention that I used to be the network engineer for a CD replicator?
Some smaller blocks:
Block 7 - "BSD is dying."
Block 8 - "BSD is not dying."
Or do these fall under Block 5?
Then there are the large blocks, that encompass many from all the others. I.e., the SCO SUCKS! block.
As I read PJ's comments on Groklaw an interesting thought come up. Is SCO fishing for IBM's AIX and related source code? SCO wants IBM to supply all kinds of IBM code as part of discovery, ostensibly so SCO kind find infringing derivative works or some such. SCO's (remaining 2 or 3) coders will have access to it, without NDA or non-compete or the like. SCO could then incorporate IBM's IP into UnixWare in the future, possibly making UnixWare semi-marketable.
Think about it. UnixWare sucks. Sales have been down every year for some time now. SCO can't figure out how other Unix licensees make a better Unix than the One True Unix, which is SCO's. (Original AT&T codebase at least) So the decide to steal it, right out in the open with a U.S. court watching them do it.
Crazy you ask? Does anything SCO has done so far look entirely sane?
I have to go polish my tinfoil hat now...
But guns are the only machine whose primary function is to do damage to a target.
By your (wrong) definition a three hole punch is a weapon. (An evil ASSAULT WEAPON, it punches three wholes with every operation!) A three hole punch punches holes in paper, my guns punch holes in paper.
But guns are special in that their primary functionality as a machine is as a weapon.
Yes, guns are special. The ownership of them by the common man (or woman) is protected by the U.S. Constitution
You seem to have "movie watchers' syndrome". Only in the movies are guns exclusively used as weapons of agression.
...welcome the new fMRI overlords!
Actually, it will be both funny and sad when/if this stuff is actually used. Funny since it won't work on me, marketing shit never has. Sometimes it's really funny how hard they try. Sad in seeing the number of dogs-drooling-at-Pavlov's-bell types wondering around, unaware of their plight...
Tax barriers? What tax barriers? What country has these tax barriers?
Yes, I know, the US has a very onerous tax structure. One of the reasons I didn't go into farming. But that doesn't stop one starving Rwandan from getting some corn meal or wheat flour. (or a nice pound of ground round that ate corn for the last 1000 lbs of its life)
How about the evil Marxist dictators that are the real cause of most countries' food shortages? Spread some democracy and capitalism around and you will fix more hunger than anything else. It will last much longer than JAH (Just Another Handout).
Got mod points, but I gotsta reply.
In the Great State of Nebraska, we have taken 1.1 million acres of land out of production in the last 20 years or so. About 20% of our current corn production is being fermented into alcohol for use in E10 (Ethanol, 90% gas, 10% grain alcohol). Corn is still selling for less per bushel (currently around US$2/bu.) than it did 25 years ago (US$2.5/bu. give or take 2 bits) when I did field work for a seed corn dealer (a guy that raises the seed corn that other farmers buy to plant next year that becomes field corn that is made into corn flakes, alcohol, feed and hundreds of other things).
Why? We grow more corn than there is any possible need for as food. Per acre production is up about 50% in those 25 years. Last season a farmer in Iowa got test plots over 340 bu./acre. Dryland. That's FUCKING INCREDIBLE!!! Roundup-ready and corn root worm resistant varieties, plus the ever increasing yields via hybridization will continue to increase these yields.
Oh yeah, most of Nebraska is in a 4 year old drought, extreme conditions in the West and Southwest parts of the state. We will still have our second or third largest harvest of corn this year on record. Most of the corn is raised in less drought stressed areas, but it's been dry everywhere in this state for the last 2 years.
As for fixing the starvation problem, that has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of food available world-wide. Those people are starving because of three primary reasons: no or not enough local production; no source of hard currency or trade material to acquire food on the open market (what, you want farmers to give it away? Or maybe us taxpayers should foot the bill?); and the most common reason, evil Marxist dictators running (can it even be called 'running'? ruining is more apropos) these "poor" countries. These dictators often are the cause of reason 2, since they steal all the countries assets to build themselves lavish Presidential Palaces, buy expensive European cars and jewelry, etc...
I kinda like the idea of MS financing /.
/., et al may not be much, and it certainly won't break the bank at MS, but if everyone does it, everytime...
/. and OSDN can pay their utility bills...
Of course I click through ALL MS ads on every site. I also click through other evil companies ads sometimes. My little contribution to
At least
IBM is introducing their lates server line, the IBM ButterKnife series
Wouldn't that be something like the iServer uSeries?
cluster of up to 200 MS Pocket PC's
I thought IBM and MS didn't like each other any more? IBM is pushing Linux on all their other hardware, why would the iServer uSeries be any different?
Back when I was a doorman/bouncer, we used this thing called a memory.
You too, eh? We're so old school.
I also used this very un-PC technique now called "profiling". It wasn't all that difficult to judge someone fairly accurately by watching them come in the door. I NEVER worked the door. Checking IDs is for bartenders or someone else. I'm the cooler. All issues go through me first, last and everything in between. And I have the scars to prove it.
One thing this new procedure will do is make bouncers a mere commodity. Bar owners/managers will no longer have to invest as much time in finding quality men to do this job.
I imagine the large "clubs" are the ones that will use this. I've always worked medium to large (100-175 capacity) working class neighborhood bars. Rough crowds, generally good people, some would even watch my back during a scuffle.
Great, now PC BIOSes will be wide open to virus infection. Think the virus outbreak this past summer was bad? Just wait until there are thousands of zombie machines with a hosed BIOS spewing Swen emails.
Antivirus software will have to be in the BIOS also.
We may not be able to stop companies from putting RFID tags on their stuff, which becomes *our* stuff when we buy it, but we sure as hell can find these tags and remove or destroy them after purchase.
How difficult would it be to build your own RFID detector? If it is too difficult for Joe and Jane Average, how much might one cost at WalMart/Target/Walgreens/geektoys.com?
Somebody want to start a business making these? I have a manufacturing background...