Not only does it sound crazy, it *is* crazy. Most Nigerian spam is sent by ordinary people paid a penny per email message. They cut-n-paste it into the email window on the current web-based email system while sitting in an Internet cafe drinking a latte' (or the Nigerian equivalent). How is a different protocol going to help you distinguish between a Nigerian sending spam that way, and your sister sending email from her Peace Corps stint in Malawe? -russ
So? Add an MX record pointing to the SMTP client. "Can't do that; an MX record is supposed to point to a host running an SMTP server." What do you want? Political correctness or less spam? Sheesh, give the record a higher MX distance. -russ
Owning the rights to Unix is like owning a car with 200K miles. Maybe it's running fine now, but if you're smart, you're looking for a new car to replace it. -russ
Owning the rights to Unix is like owning a ten-year-old good milker. Maybe it's making money now, but you know it's going to the knacker's before too long. Linux is going to kill Unix. You know it; I know it; why don't the investors know it? -russ
Dan does not tolerate fools gladly. For better or worse, he's smarter than nearly everybody, so we're all fools in his eyes. That doesn't take any responsibility off us for being foolish, of course. It just makes it hard not to be foolish. -russ
Dotster.com floats my boat. They make it very easy to transfer a domain to them. Of course, Verislime still gets $6 of that transaction to publish the record in the root zones. -russ
So what happens to your competitive edge if you're forced to give out the secrets behind your product?
You have to establish a pecuniary pre- and post-sale relationship with your customer. Is that such an unusual idea? In any case, the issue here is not that Linksys made a product with some proprietary user-space bits. The problem is that they made a kernel with some proprietary GPL-space bits. Can't do that without releasing the source. -russ
BUt a 2-dimensional being walking around on the torus wouldn't be able to see where the torus ends. And yet if they were to create an arbitrary starting point, they could measure the diameters of the torus in both directions. No border and yet finite. -russ
That's just the thing -- it's finite and there is no border. It wraps around on itself in 3D, like a torus does in 2D. Where is the border of the surface of a torus? -russ
Weeks says that's just an invention of the press. He had the proper name up on a slide, but it's not even a dodecahedron. You can't tile space with dodecahedrons. You have to bend space to make them fit. You get a bending of space that amounts of a factor of 1.01. The microwave data gives a factor of 1.02 plus or minus.002, so it's not clearly confirmation or rejection. -russ
Actually, Segway ought to license their patents to somebody who wanted to make them cheaply, like Trevor's. They would be much more dangerous than the Segway. Segway could then say "This is why our product is so expensive. Don't you want to buy a Segway(tm)?" -russ
You want an ending?? Remember, this is book one of a series. Neal doesn't *have* to write an ending in this book. In fact, he *never* has to write an ending. At the end of every book in the series, he just writes "... to be continued". -russ
Yup. It's crude. On the other hand, it's simple. Simple is good because you can read the patch and understand it. Consider that ISC has published three or four remote root exploits, and djbdns has had no exploits, remote, root, or otherwise. I'll take crude over insecure any day. J.P. Larocque has a script which lets you update root/ignoreip. You can update that file in a few seconds. An ISC-enabled root exploit means a complete reinstall unless you seriously trust your ability to remove a rootkit. Let's say it takes five seconds to update the file. Let's say it takes a whole day to reinstall your server (optimistic). Let's say there's a 1 out of ten thousand chance of this code causing a remote root exploit. There's 86K seconds in a day, so their code costs you 9 seconds a day. Given those assumptions, the "automatic" ISC procedure for updating the ignorable IP addresses costs you more time, on average, than updating by hand every day. -russ
Attention, K-Mart shoppers! A sense of humor is now on sale over in the Irony department. Get your's now before we run out. -russ P.s. if you taunt me again, I will commit ever more egregious speling and gramer erors.
Re:SCO is not targetting Linux with a lawsuit
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SCO Volleys to Red Hat
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I'm (note the apostrophe) not naive (note the correct speling). Of course SCO does not intend to stop with IBM. But so far, they haven't initiated a lawsuit for copyright infringement against *anybody*,which should speak worlds about their likelihood of success.
No, this is a pump and dump scheme. They're trying very hard to convince the stock market that their stock is worth more than $.75, which is what it was when they started this whole brouhaha. As a consequence, their claims become (and must become) more and more outrageous as time goes on. They have to keep up the press barrage, otherwise potential victims/investors will forget about them. -russ
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Not only does it sound crazy, it *is* crazy. Most Nigerian spam is sent by ordinary people paid a penny per email message. They cut-n-paste it into the email window on the current web-based email system while sitting in an Internet cafe drinking a latte' (or the Nigerian equivalent). How is a different protocol going to help you distinguish between a Nigerian sending spam that way, and your sister sending email from her Peace Corps stint in Malawe?
-russ
So? Add an MX record pointing to the SMTP client. "Can't do that; an MX record is supposed to point to a host running an SMTP server." What do you want? Political correctness or less spam? Sheesh, give the record a higher MX distance.
-russ
Why do you bring the subject up? Was that posting sarcasm or something?
-russ
No, no, that's $500 for the *motor controller* alone.
-russ
People do that everywhere you have people who stay in one place for a while.
-russ
Oh, sorry, should I have used a car analogy?
Owning the rights to Unix is like owning a car with 200K miles. Maybe it's running fine now, but if you're smart, you're looking for a new car to replace it.
-russ
Notice when the announcement was made: at 5:18PM. Watch SCOX take another jump upward on Friday morning.
-russ
Owning the rights to Unix is like owning a ten-year-old good milker. Maybe it's making money now, but you know it's going to the knacker's before too long. Linux is going to kill Unix. You know it; I know it; why don't the investors know it?
-russ
Dan does not tolerate fools gladly. For better or worse, he's smarter than nearly everybody, so we're all fools in his eyes. That doesn't take any responsibility off us for being foolish, of course. It just makes it hard not to be foolish.
-russ
Dotster.com floats my boat. They make it very easy to transfer a domain to them. Of course, Verislime still gets $6 of that transaction to publish the record in the root zones.
-russ
So what happens to your competitive edge if you're forced to give out the secrets behind your product?
You have to establish a pecuniary pre- and post-sale relationship with your customer. Is that such an unusual idea? In any case, the issue here is not that Linksys made a product with some proprietary user-space bits. The problem is that they made a kernel with some proprietary GPL-space bits. Can't do that without releasing the source.
-russ
BUt a 2-dimensional being walking around on the torus wouldn't be able to see where the torus ends. And yet if they were to create an arbitrary starting point, they could measure the diameters of the torus in both directions. No border and yet finite.
-russ
That's just the thing -- it's finite and there is no border. It wraps around on itself in 3D, like a torus does in 2D. Where is the border of the surface of a torus?
-russ
Weeks says that's just an invention of the press. He had the proper name up on a slide, but it's not even a dodecahedron. You can't tile space with dodecahedrons. You have to bend space to make them fit. You get a bending of space that amounts of a factor of 1.01. The microwave data gives a factor of 1.02 plus or minus .002, so it's not clearly confirmation or rejection.
-russ
Gee, this makes me want to sign up, and then cancel on 11/8.
-russ
I'm sorry, but everything worth knowing has already been digitized. If you think it hasn't, why aren't you working on putting it online.
-russ
Actually, Segway ought to license their patents to somebody who wanted to make them cheaply, like Trevor's. They would be much more dangerous than the Segway. Segway could then say "This is why our product is so expensive. Don't you want to buy a Segway(tm)?"
-russ
You want an ending?? Remember, this is book one of a series. Neal doesn't *have* to write an ending in this book. In fact, he *never* has to write an ending. At the end of every book in the series, he just writes "... to be continued".
-russ
Lets say "If you want a [substantive] reply, log in".
Yup. It's crude. On the other hand, it's simple. Simple is good because you can read the patch and understand it. Consider that ISC has published three or four remote root exploits, and djbdns has had no exploits, remote, root, or otherwise. I'll take crude over insecure any day. J.P. Larocque has a script which lets you update root/ignoreip. You can update that file in a few seconds. An ISC-enabled root exploit means a complete reinstall unless you seriously trust your ability to remove a rootkit. Let's say it takes five seconds to update the file. Let's say it takes a whole day to reinstall your server (optimistic). Let's say there's a 1 out of ten thousand chance of this code causing a remote root exploit. There's 86K seconds in a day, so their code costs you 9 seconds a day. Given those assumptions, the "automatic" ISC procedure for updating the ignorable IP addresses costs you more time, on average, than updating by hand every day.
-russ
-russ
Even better is the version I wrote last night, which lets you ignore a list of names.
-russ
names.tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip2.patch.
Attention, K-Mart shoppers! A sense of humor is now on sale over in the Irony department. Get your's now before we run out.
-russ
P.s. if you taunt me again, I will commit ever more egregious speling and gramer erors.
Yes. Why, wasn't it?
-russ
I'm (note the apostrophe) not naive (note the correct speling). Of course SCO does not intend to stop with IBM. But so far, they haven't initiated a lawsuit for copyright infringement against *anybody* ,which should speak worlds about their likelihood of success.
No, this is a pump and dump scheme. They're trying very hard to convince the stock market that their stock is worth more than $.75, which is what it was when they started this whole brouhaha. As a consequence, their claims become (and must become) more and more outrageous as time goes on. They have to keep up the press barrage, otherwise potential victims/investors will forget about them.
-russ
And how do you explain the need to license your kernel ?
Need? What need? I have as much legal right to demand payments as SCO does.
-russ