I mean, if they defeat the GPL, then they couldn't use the software in the first place,
It would be rather hard to attack the GPL without also attacking all similar licencing. Which would create a lot of "interested parties", e.g. any publisher who subcontracts their production.
Since the system is free there's no harm, to you at least, in having infinite length phone calls.
How does the system know which language you are speaking? If it relys on the software settings what's to stop you setting it to "Fasi" then talking in English... If the software attempts to guess the language then it's highly likely to be confused by jargon, slang, even accents.
The distinction between the humanties and the sciences is specifically that objective measures exist of scientific processes, where-as the humanties are concerned with subjects for which there is no objective measure, and hence only debate.
There is not always "debate", sometimes there is simply "dogma". Even cases where any kind of potentially objective fact checking is activly resisted. e.g. consider how welcome archeologists would be welcome at the sites identified as "Nazi Death Camps".
This is why, imho, wikipedia is useless for things like "history" and great for things like "understanding the 3rd law of thermodynamics".
Much the same can be true of a conventional encyclopedia. You's still have this problem if the "history" defintion excluded anything more recent than the mid 19th century.
Wikipedia's problem is not transparently serious problems - it's insidious, hard-to-spot inaccuracy. If I tell you that Napoleon died in 1934 from Syphilis contracted by sleeping with Gerald Butler's mother, you'll recognise that as false and thus go on your merry way. If I tell you, though, that he died in June of 1821, you won't notice, despite it being just as wrong. Random vandalism isn't a problem; people deliberately pushing an agenda is.
Pushing an adgenda isn't always subtle. There's the technique of "big lie" as well as topics which are taboo to question.
And now, such information on Wikipedia can be vandalized at any moment right before someone would go look at the page, and kooks can twist the page to their own ends.
Which is especially a problem where said "kooks" work for Wikipedia, they are well organised or their "kookiness" is politically correct.
Once I finally got the idiot to put a supervisor on. He claimed that they had prior business with the phone number, not the person, and could keep calling back. I said even if that were true, which it wasn't, they hadn't had a relationship in over a year so now they were required by law to take the number off their list.
In which case he'd presumably expect the telephone number to be paying for the stuff. Good luck getting money out of a sequence of digits:)
His response: he asked if I wanted to buy any drugs.
Maybe you should have said "Yes, but they are for all your people who keep calling me!"
They were granted corporate charters because of the need for limited liability and so that many small investors could pool their money together to make investments.
Note that this "limited liability" was simply an investor thing.
Both companies were in risky businesses, shipping. A ship might sink or be attacked by pirates, and the company or ship owner was responsible for the loss of the cargo, the owner of the cargo had to be repaid for the loss. A small investor in a ship could lose not only what they invested in the ship but everything they owned.
This is an issue with Lloyds insurance, the liability of the insurance underwriters is effectivly unlimited.
By chartering corporations investors were only liable for what they invested, if they bought stocks in a ship for $1000 and it sank the most they could loose is that $1000.
At the time $100 might well be a lot for a "small investor", it might even be perfectly possible for a person to hold only one share/stock for $1. Also nothing about this arrangement absolved a ship's master of their responsibilities. e.g. the crew were caught conspiring with pirates to have the cargo stolen then they'd be liable.
The RIAA didn't drop the complaint. They just amended it.
Is this actually allowed after a judge has tossed the case. At best they should have to grovell humiliatingly to the judge, at worst start a whole new case from scratch.
Regardless of whether a computer downloaded or served certain files, they did NOT "detect an individual" at all! What they detected was an IP. If your sister or cousin or the neighbor had theoretical access to your computer at the time (and it only has to be theoretical), then then cannot pin this on an individual, so they have no case.
Reminds me of a Pennsylvania farmer I once knew. He made his living by poaching deer and selling the meat to some fancy, high dollar Maryland and D.C. restaurants. He would get caught poaching, pay the stiff fines out of a roll in his pocket and claim that it was only 3 days profits, and only got caught several times a year. Just a small operating expense...no big deal. He just laughed it off and even bragged about it.
The only unusual thing is an individual being able to use this kind of business model. Corporations have the advantage that they cannot be arrested.
The info on the intertubes is that Mr. Maris, otherwise known as The Putz of the Century, after having forwarded all his corporate mail to his Gmail account, signed up for one of the p2p forums he was "investigating" using that very Gmail address and the same password as his gmail account had.
And he did so from an IP address already known to belong to Media Defenders.
Either he's an idiot or a "double agent", let's see if the p2p forum offers him a job to decide:)
From the point of view of "improving the fitness of the organism", the changes are effectively random.
However the selection process is non random. e.g. were a bacteria to mutate in such a way that a previously harmless substance was poisonous to it then it would become "less fit". Whereas a mutation which rendered something previously toxic harmless would make it "more fit".
Well, that goes for a lot fo things. I live in the Netherlands, and if I look out of the window, I'd not immediately come up with the idea that the earth is round. With some investigation it is possible to find out that it is.
The most basic investigation would be discovering that you can see further the higher you are above the ground. e.g. when sailing ships were common lookouts would be stationed up a mast. Now you just have to go to Rotterdam and spend a few Euros to go to the top of the Euromast.
Anyway, when I got onsite and started talking to them, I found out that the entire trading system was written in noncompiled Perl. They used huge modules for all their trading functions and had a habit of just "use"ing all of the modules in all of the scripts whether they needed them or not. I actually figured out that every time a trade was input by a user, the system had to load and tokenize well over 50,000 lines of Perl code in something like 75 files.
Plenty of possibilities for backdoors in such code.
I asked them if they had ever thought of using something like FastCGI to speed things up by preloading the modules at least, or coding in C or C++ rather than Perl. They said noone really knew how to code in C and they couldn't figure out FastCGI.
Might be more accurate to say "noone really knew how to code". Only loading the modules you need in a CGI script isn't exactly rocket science, nor is finding a Perl compiler.
And why, pray tell, does TD Amiritrade require all of that in their main database? If set up properly they could have one database with financial information, and database with contact information, and a link between them.
Even then there's information on their customers they probably shouldn't be storing at all (e.g. date of birth). Data protection laws, as exist in Europe, explicitally disallow storing unnecessary personal information.
I doubt it. I suspect that there's a court case on Monday unless Judge Kimball says that there isn't, and I suspect that he is quite unlikely to do so.
Isn't Justice Kimball a woman? Anyway I doubt any judge would take the day (or even week) off, in such a situation. If the Novell/SCO case is suspended they'll simply be assigned another case.
These airlines had the potentially profitable business model of transporting people and cargo. With real world examples of other companies doing so sucessfully. Where is SCO's potentially profitable business model? Which solvent companies currently exist which are using this business model?
Even if they were relived of their debt, they've already been relieved of all of their current claims of copyright and IP ownership, so should they ever come out of bankruptcy, there will be nothing for them to do business with, or even sue over.
But they could probably still be sued. Even if the bankruptcy court were to dismiss all existing judgments and court cases.
Ummm... maybe you don't understand what Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings are. It's a reorganization of the company, not a dissolution.
In many places the term "bankruptcy" means much the same as the US "chapter 7". Something similar to the US "chapter 11" would be called something different, such as "administration"...
That isn't to say that SCO is safe, but news that they're filing for bankruptcy doesn't really mean anything.
Especially given that they have only filed a petition with a court, not that it has been granted.
Send a DMCA take down notice to the hosting provider since the contents of the website infringe on your copyright?:) You shouldn't even need a lawyer for that, as there are plenty of RIAA and MPAA examples floating around...
If you use an RIAA one for source make sure you remember to clearly the defendant and what they have done wrong though:)
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I mean, if they defeat the GPL, then they couldn't use the software in the first place,
It would be rather hard to attack the GPL without also attacking all similar licencing. Which would create a lot of "interested parties", e.g. any publisher who subcontracts their production.
Since the system is free there's no harm, to you at least, in having infinite length phone calls.
How does the system know which language you are speaking? If it relys on the software settings what's to stop you setting it to "Fasi" then talking in English... If the software attempts to guess the language then it's highly likely to be confused by jargon, slang, even accents.
The distinction between the humanties and the sciences is specifically that objective measures exist of scientific processes, where-as the humanties are concerned with subjects for which there is no objective measure, and hence only debate.
There is not always "debate", sometimes there is simply "dogma". Even cases where any kind of potentially objective fact checking is activly resisted. e.g. consider how welcome archeologists would be welcome at the sites identified as "Nazi Death Camps".
This is why, imho, wikipedia is useless for things like "history" and great for things like "understanding the 3rd law of thermodynamics".
Much the same can be true of a conventional encyclopedia. You's still have this problem if the "history" defintion excluded anything more recent than the mid 19th century.
Wikipedia's problem is not transparently serious problems - it's insidious, hard-to-spot inaccuracy. If I tell you that Napoleon died in 1934 from Syphilis contracted by sleeping with Gerald Butler's mother, you'll recognise that as false and thus go on your merry way. If I tell you, though, that he died in June of 1821, you won't notice, despite it being just as wrong. Random vandalism isn't a problem; people deliberately pushing an agenda is.
Pushing an adgenda isn't always subtle. There's the technique of "big lie" as well as topics which are taboo to question.
By forbidding a certain action/author/etc. on Wikipedia, you may ban 100 vandals, but you also ban 1 extremely useful editor.
There's also the issue of how much you should trust the people doing the banning.
And now, such information on Wikipedia can be vandalized at any moment right before someone would go look at the page, and kooks can twist the page to their own ends.
Which is especially a problem where said "kooks" work for Wikipedia, they are well organised or their "kookiness" is politically correct.
Now we will see crime drop just like it did in the UK when they installed their cameras!
Some of these things may actually cause a rise in crime. Since they are at least as useful to criminals as they are to law enforcement.
Once I finally got the idiot to put a supervisor on. He claimed that they had prior business with the phone number, not the person, and could keep calling back. I said even if that were true, which it wasn't, they hadn't had a relationship in over a year so now they were required by law to take the number off their list.
:)
In which case he'd presumably expect the telephone number to be paying for the stuff. Good luck getting money out of a sequence of digits
His response: he asked if I wanted to buy any drugs.
Maybe you should have said "Yes, but they are for all your people who keep calling me!"
Everyone knows there are three types of accountants: ones who can count, and ones who can't.
The same way that there are 10 types of programmers. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Heck, the accountants probably know that there is no money to pay themselves. So, why work?
Also one of the first things likely to happen to SCO as a result of their filing is an audit.
They were granted corporate charters because of the need for limited liability and so that many small investors could pool their money together to make investments.
Note that this "limited liability" was simply an investor thing.
Both companies were in risky businesses, shipping. A ship might sink or be attacked by pirates, and the company or ship owner was responsible for the loss of the cargo, the owner of the cargo had to be repaid for the loss. A small investor in a ship could lose not only what they invested in the ship but everything they owned.
This is an issue with Lloyds insurance, the liability of the insurance underwriters is effectivly unlimited.
By chartering corporations investors were only liable for what they invested, if they bought stocks in a ship for $1000 and it sank the most they could loose is that $1000.
At the time $100 might well be a lot for a "small investor", it might even be perfectly possible for a person to hold only one share/stock for $1.
Also nothing about this arrangement absolved a ship's master of their responsibilities. e.g. the crew were caught conspiring with pirates to have the cargo stolen then they'd be liable.
The RIAA didn't drop the complaint. They just amended it.
Is this actually allowed after a judge has tossed the case.
At best they should have to grovell humiliatingly to the judge, at worst start a whole new case from scratch.
Regardless of whether a computer downloaded or served certain files, they did NOT "detect an individual" at all! What they detected was an IP. If your sister or cousin or the neighbor had theoretical access to your computer at the time (and it only has to be theoretical), then then cannot pin this on an individual, so they have no case.
Similarly if you are (or could be) running TOR.
Reminds me of a Pennsylvania farmer I once knew. He made his living by poaching deer and selling the meat to some fancy, high dollar Maryland and D.C. restaurants. He would get caught poaching, pay the stiff fines out of a roll in his pocket and claim that it was only 3 days profits, and only got caught several times a year. Just a small operating expense...no big deal. He just laughed it off and even bragged about it.
The only unusual thing is an individual being able to use this kind of business model. Corporations have the advantage that they cannot be arrested.
The info on the intertubes is that Mr. Maris, otherwise known as The Putz of the Century, after having forwarded all his corporate mail to his Gmail account, signed up for one of the p2p forums he was "investigating" using that very Gmail address and the same password as his gmail account had.
:)
And he did so from an IP address already known to belong to Media Defenders.
Either he's an idiot or a "double agent", let's see if the p2p forum offers him a job to decide
From the point of view of "improving the fitness of the organism", the changes are effectively random.
However the selection process is non random. e.g. were a bacteria to mutate in such a way that a previously harmless substance was poisonous to it then it would become "less fit". Whereas a mutation which rendered something previously toxic harmless would make it "more fit".
Well, that goes for a lot fo things. I live in the Netherlands, and if I look out of the window, I'd not immediately come up with the idea that the earth is round. With some investigation it is possible to find out that it is.
The most basic investigation would be discovering that you can see further the higher you are above the ground. e.g. when sailing ships were common lookouts would be stationed up a mast. Now you just have to go to Rotterdam and spend a few Euros to go to the top of the Euromast.
Anyway, when I got onsite and started talking to them, I found out that the entire trading system was written in noncompiled Perl. They used huge modules for all their trading functions and had a habit of just "use"ing all of the modules in all of the scripts whether they needed them or not. I actually figured out that every time a trade was input by a user, the system had to load and tokenize well over 50,000 lines of Perl code in something like 75 files.
Plenty of possibilities for backdoors in such code.
I asked them if they had ever thought of using something like FastCGI to speed things up by preloading the modules at least, or coding in C or C++ rather than Perl. They said noone really knew how to code in C and they couldn't figure out FastCGI.
Might be more accurate to say "noone really knew how to code".
Only loading the modules you need in a CGI script isn't exactly rocket science, nor is finding a Perl compiler.
And why, pray tell, does TD Amiritrade require all of that in their main database? If set up properly they could have one database with financial information, and database with contact information, and a link between them.
Even then there's information on their customers they probably shouldn't be storing at all (e.g. date of birth). Data protection laws, as exist in Europe, explicitally disallow storing unnecessary personal information.
I doubt it. I suspect that there's a court case on Monday unless Judge Kimball says that there isn't, and I suspect that he is quite unlikely to do so.
Isn't Justice Kimball a woman? Anyway I doubt any judge would take the day (or even week) off, in such a situation. If the Novell/SCO case is suspended they'll simply be assigned another case.
Again, see the US airline industry.
These airlines had the potentially profitable business model of transporting people and cargo. With real world examples of other companies doing so sucessfully.
Where is SCO's potentially profitable business model? Which solvent companies currently exist which are using this business model?
Even if they were relived of their debt, they've already been relieved of all of their current claims of copyright and IP ownership, so should they ever come out of bankruptcy, there will be nothing for them to do business with, or even sue over.
But they could probably still be sued. Even if the bankruptcy court were to dismiss all existing judgments and court cases.
Ummm... maybe you don't understand what Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings are. It's a reorganization of the company, not a dissolution.
In many places the term "bankruptcy" means much the same as the US "chapter 7". Something similar to the US "chapter 11" would be called something different, such as "administration"...
That isn't to say that SCO is safe, but news that they're filing for bankruptcy doesn't really mean anything.
Especially given that they have only filed a petition with a court, not that it has been granted.
Send a DMCA take down notice to the hosting provider since the contents of the website infringe on your copyright? :) You shouldn't even need a lawyer for that, as there are plenty of RIAA and MPAA examples floating around...
:)
If you use an RIAA one for source make sure you remember to clearly the defendant and what they have done wrong though