The CEO of this company says he doesn't want to politicize the break-in. That's great. But to say they are going to eventually release the code to their app is not very useful to his cause, unless the code itself may be a source of embarrassment, and he's doing some sort of damage control.
Someone probably rooted their linux mail server with a cracked account, and took the code for their app in the process.
Anyone want to bet they are in violation of the GPL, and we might just see the code itself under posted to the net any day now?
Either this is a well-crafted troll, you are shilling for something here, or you are just plain stupidly idealistic and shortsighted.
"Let's make sure that our access to information is metered and doled out in equal portions, so that everyone gets an equal piece of the pie. Also, let's put the government in charge of our access to information, including news, commerce, communications, and education, and trust them to make sure that we get access to what we need and have a constitutional right to view."
If they just ban taxation on VoIP, which is the next logical large-scale change in telephony, then that leaves an opening for a feeding frenzy that could possibly topple the Baby Bells and provide a path for decentralized, community-serving telecommunications. Good thing our elected representative leaders caught this in time to protect us from the possibility of getting rid of the Bells.
The power to tax is the power to destroy, and the American government will never allow unfettered access to free communication, First Ammendment rhetoric or no.
They've been using ring laser gyos in pretty much anything that uses inertial navigation for a while now. Most commercial and military planes have an inertial nav system, updated with ground waypoints, as well as GPS and Loran systems. It's a pretty good way of finding your way around in the event of systems failure (which of course never happens....)
As a kid, I had no idea what my options for drugs were until a DARE officer showed up in my classroom with the parphenalia display, the scratch-n-sniff pot smelling paper, and the videos of glassy-eyed hippies all whacked out on weed and goofballs.
Needless to say, I'm pretty sure that many, if not most of the kids they try and "teach" this way will just go right out and get the free music they didn't know they were missing. Brilliant.
Most of the people who are buying hard drives do it for one of three reasons: either to replace a failing hard drive, to add space to an existing installation, or to build a new home-grown PC.
I can't think of a good reason that any of these situations would merit booting a default OS from a hard disk, rather than formatting it, and installing what you want.
The only people who might leave the Lindows OS on the hard disk are shops that build beige boxes, and don't want to burn a windows license to deliver a working computer. Maybe the mom and pop PC market is what they're after.
Either way if We can keep this up for another 8-10 years I can retire at the ripe old age of 35-37.
You know, That's exactly what a lot of people were thinking about four years ago. People who were just as talented and just as deserving as you seem to think you are.
Funny how things work out sometimes. Just gather ye roses while ye may, kid.
First of all, this is a lawsuit. That hasn't made it to court. And probably won't.
Disclaimer: The following is my opinion, so if you are easily offended by sweeping generalities, outright ignorance, bad grammar, or misspellings, do not read further. Thanks.
The lawsuit states that IBM used licensed code from the UNIX kernel source to create some functionality or other in AIX and linux, which they redistributed. And that's all it says.
SCO will not allow IBM to see what the supposed "infringing code" is, so they are trying to maximize any damages, instead of helping to remedy the situation.
The only mention of going after Linux, Linux users, or the Free Software community that has been made has been utterly without any legal or court filing, and only through press release. SCO realized that the AIX user community didn't give two shits about their claims, and by extension IBM wasn't about to be blackmailed into buying them out. So falling back to plan B, they spewed one press release after another to generate all the press they could, and behold, their stock price has jumped through the roof.
IBM amd RedHat, on the other hand, have filed court motions to out SCO's proof, and to penalize them for unethical behavior, slander, tort, and all sorts of other slimy shit. Not to mention IBM's patent portfolio.
There has been no mention of copyright, patent, or any other intellectual property violation on sco's part, except through press release that they are "preparing" to sue someone.
I can say I'm "preparing" to light my farts and fly to the moon, but until I actually do it, it's not going to get a lot of attention.
SCO's going to get pounded into the ground, and until there is a motion of actual litigation on their part against someone for infringing code in linux, there's not much to get riled up about. Until then, it's just a contract dispute between sco and IBM.
I live in the district where this is taking place. Last year, Georgia got its first Republican governor since Reconstruction, along with many, many Republican upsets over Democratic front-runners. The Diebold machines recorded votes that mismatched pre and post-election polling by large percentages.
I would love to see some sort of accountability for these damned things, besides some independent "hacker" trying to break into one. What is needed is a redesign that provides an unalterable record of each vote, along with transparency in the system itself. I'm afraid this challenge is only going to reinforce the system already in place.
Yep, unless you consider the odds of a payout being statistically heaped in favor of the house as "fraud resistant." Personally, I'd rather stick with the uncertainty of incompetence than have a company in charge of our electoral system whose mission is to rig thier machines.
In a stunning upset, Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been unanimously elected President of The United States of America. In an interview this morning in New Delhi, President-Elect Vajpayee stated that his first order of business would be to persuade Canadian President-Elect Pervez Musharraf to stand down on his quest for weapons of mass destruction, by force if necessary.
Last I heard, Jello Biafra lost a lawsuit to the original members of DK because they all wanted to sell their rights to "Holiday in Cambodia" to Levi Strauss to use in a friggin' jeans commercial.
That said, there are plenty of good bands and slams out there to keep you busy without stuffing the coffers of the big five recording companies. That's what the RIAA and its partner companies have been afraid of all along, that people will be able to share the music of their favorite bands without their cartel having a stranglehold on the distribution channel. If you don't support their tactics, don't buy their CD's, don't listen to their stations, and for fuck's sake don't download their crap via P2P.
Instead, support independent artists, go to shows, and trade free music.
It seems that it is perfectly O.K to act like a paranoid loon if you're a CEO and your conspiricy theories are printed in an international news outlet.
How does the robot arm locate the object in a 3 dimensional space, using only one eye?
The "eye" is really a high-speed sensor for a system of computers. The computers make calculations based on the fixed location of the camera and the variable, but known location of the robotic hand to determine the location in 3D space of the target. Then the target is stationary past a certain threshold time, the hand reaches out to grab it.
The computer array constantly updates the position of the arm and hand to try and match the location of the target, and that's where you get the illusion of human movement.
The human-like hand on the end of this arm is probably for the psychological benefit of investors, who would probably shit their pants at the sight of a high speed robotic claw grasping things dangled in front of it.
Now we can finally get both sides of this story out in the open. I wonder if any former SCO coders will come out of hiding if they are called into court as witnesses that GPL code was copied into the UnixWare kernel? Will SCO's NDA trump that testimony and make the ex-programmers legally liable to SCO for damages?
Anybody want to take bets as to the source of SCO's "stolen" IP?
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Your ignorance of science and history do not make either any less true. If you were truly interested in the origins of life, you'd google for it:
This true. I wun me a some prizes and stuff for them articles I kept senden back on them iraq skuds and stuff back in dessert Storm. All i need was a little copy editin and a good story and a flak jacket.
No offense, but that's band-aid engineering. It will work for a while, but the core problem isn't solved.
If this is the case, exactly which part of the Internet isn't an example of "Band-Aid engineering?" Almost every protocol has evolved at some point due to limitations or shortsightedness during its inception. That's the true definition of innovation.
There will be always this "Hate" to them, from the comsumers.
Hate implies ignorance. Most of the people and companies (not to mention consumer groups, state legislatures, etc.) complaining about Microsoft's predatory and illegal business practices are VERY well informed as to the legality of Microsoft's actions and the degree to which these actions affect the public.
I'd say this is just another case of the chickens coming home to roost, and not a blind case of bashing.
I love how the news outlets are saying, "error", "irregularity", "problem", as if this was all some sort of tragic accident, instead of laying out the obvious truth, "criminal fraud committed with full knowledge it was a crime".
The reason for this might be that news outlets are small parts of much larger companies, who also happen to be vulnerable to the rise and fall of the market. If you take a look at any of your major news sources, you will find that they are also fully-owned subsidiaries of large megacorps. Controlling the spin on the stock market in general is in the best interest of those who are directly affected by the public's confidence in investing in corporate stock.
For the most part, corporate news has long since quietly renounced its role as public watchdog, and is now little more than a marketing arm for its new masters.
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Someone probably rooted their linux mail server with a cracked account, and took the code for their app in the process.
Anyone want to bet they are in violation of the GPL, and we might just see the code itself under posted to the net any day now?
This article has a prety good explanation.
"Let's make sure that our access to information is metered and doled out in equal portions, so that everyone gets an equal piece of the pie. Also, let's put the government in charge of our access to information, including news, commerce, communications, and education, and trust them to make sure that we get access to what we need and have a constitutional right to view."
Where do I sign up?
The power to tax is the power to destroy, and the American government will never allow unfettered access to free communication, First Ammendment rhetoric or no.
They've been using ring laser gyos in pretty much anything that uses inertial navigation for a while now. Most commercial and military planes have an inertial nav system, updated with ground waypoints, as well as GPS and Loran systems. It's a pretty good way of finding your way around in the event of systems failure (which of course never happens....)
I'd say mission accomplished.
As a kid, I had no idea what my options for drugs were until a DARE officer showed up in my classroom with the parphenalia display, the scratch-n-sniff pot smelling paper, and the videos of glassy-eyed hippies all whacked out on weed and goofballs.
Needless to say, I'm pretty sure that many, if not most of the kids they try and "teach" this way will just go right out and get the free music they didn't know they were missing. Brilliant.
I can't think of a good reason that any of these situations would merit booting a default OS from a hard disk, rather than formatting it, and installing what you want.
The only people who might leave the Lindows OS on the hard disk are shops that build beige boxes, and don't want to burn a windows license to deliver a working computer. Maybe the mom and pop PC market is what they're after.
You know, That's exactly what a lot of people were thinking about four years ago. People who were just as talented and just as deserving as you seem to think you are.
Funny how things work out sometimes. Just gather ye roses while ye may, kid.
First of all, this is a lawsuit. That hasn't made it to court. And probably won't.
Disclaimer: The following is my opinion, so if you are easily offended by sweeping generalities, outright ignorance, bad grammar, or misspellings, do not read further. Thanks.
The lawsuit states that IBM used licensed code from the UNIX kernel source to create some functionality or other in AIX and linux, which they redistributed. And that's all it says.
SCO will not allow IBM to see what the supposed "infringing code" is, so they are trying to maximize any damages, instead of helping to remedy the situation.
The only mention of going after Linux, Linux users, or the Free Software community that has been made has been utterly without any legal or court filing, and only through press release. SCO realized that the AIX user community didn't give two shits about their claims, and by extension IBM wasn't about to be blackmailed into buying them out. So falling back to plan B, they spewed one press release after another to generate all the press they could, and behold, their stock price has jumped through the roof.
IBM amd RedHat, on the other hand, have filed court motions to out SCO's proof, and to penalize them for unethical behavior, slander, tort, and all sorts of other slimy shit. Not to mention IBM's patent portfolio.
There has been no mention of copyright, patent, or any other intellectual property violation on sco's part, except through press release that they are "preparing" to sue someone.
I can say I'm "preparing" to light my farts and fly to the moon, but until I actually do it, it's not going to get a lot of attention.
SCO's going to get pounded into the ground, and until there is a motion of actual litigation on their part against someone for infringing code in linux, there's not much to get riled up about. Until then, it's just a contract dispute between sco and IBM.
So lighten up and go write some code!
I live in the district where this is taking place. Last year, Georgia got its first Republican governor since Reconstruction, along with many, many Republican upsets over Democratic front-runners. The Diebold machines recorded votes that mismatched pre and post-election polling by large percentages.
I would love to see some sort of accountability for these damned things, besides some independent "hacker" trying to break into one. What is needed is a redesign that provides an unalterable record of each vote, along with transparency in the system itself. I'm afraid this challenge is only going to reinforce the system already in place.
Yep, unless you consider the odds of a payout being statistically heaped in favor of the house as "fraud resistant." Personally, I'd rather stick with the uncertainty of incompetence than have a company in charge of our electoral system whose mission is to rig thier machines.
Diebold fits the bill for the incompetence argument.
November 5, 2004 Washington:
In a stunning upset, Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been unanimously elected President of The United States of America. In an interview this morning in New Delhi, President-Elect Vajpayee stated that his first order of business would be to persuade Canadian President-Elect Pervez Musharraf to stand down on his quest for weapons of mass destruction, by force if necessary.
Story's here.
That said, there are plenty of good bands and slams out there to keep you busy without stuffing the coffers of the big five recording companies. That's what the RIAA and its partner companies have been afraid of all along, that people will be able to share the music of their favorite bands without their cartel having a stranglehold on the distribution channel. If you don't support their tactics, don't buy their CD's, don't listen to their stations, and for fuck's sake don't download their crap via P2P.
Instead, support independent artists, go to shows, and trade free music.
It didn't work so well for H. Ross Perot. :)
The "eye" is really a high-speed sensor for a system of computers. The computers make calculations based on the fixed location of the camera and the variable, but known location of the robotic hand to determine the location in 3D space of the target. Then the target is stationary past a certain threshold time, the hand reaches out to grab it.
The computer array constantly updates the position of the arm and hand to try and match the location of the target, and that's where you get the illusion of human movement.
The human-like hand on the end of this arm is probably for the psychological benefit of investors, who would probably shit their pants at the sight of a high speed robotic claw grasping things dangled in front of it.
Anybody want to take bets as to the source of SCO's "stolen" IP?
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http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/NM/miller.html
http://www.resa.net/nasa/origins_life.htm
Why are there not programs that spam the spamers with email adresses or something like that?
There are.
This true. I wun me a some prizes and stuff for them articles I kept senden back on them iraq skuds and stuff back in dessert Storm. All i need was a little copy editin and a good story and a flak jacket.
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I think the old saying goes:
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
If this is the case, exactly which part of the Internet isn't an example of "Band-Aid engineering?" Almost every protocol has evolved at some point due to limitations or shortsightedness during its inception. That's the true definition of innovation.
Hate implies ignorance. Most of the people and companies (not to mention consumer groups, state legislatures, etc.) complaining about Microsoft's predatory and illegal business practices are VERY well informed as to the legality of Microsoft's actions and the degree to which these actions affect the public.
I'd say this is just another case of the chickens coming home to roost, and not a blind case of bashing.
I can see it now
Haiku will get an RFC
and then be ignored
The reason for this might be that news outlets are small parts of much larger companies, who also happen to be vulnerable to the rise and fall of the market. If you take a look at any of your major news sources, you will find that they are also fully-owned subsidiaries of large megacorps. Controlling the spin on the stock market in general is in the best interest of those who are directly affected by the public's confidence in investing in corporate stock.
For the most part, corporate news has long since quietly renounced its role as public watchdog, and is now little more than a marketing arm for its new masters.