There are now more file swappers than people who voted in the last presidential election so use p2p to construct a campaign advertising that any presidential candidate who will give a publicly sworn or even better, written guarantee to tame the RIAA will get the entire vote of the file swapping community thus guaranteeing them a win in return.
OK so copying music is illegal but the RIAA should stop behaving like a bunch of spoilt 4 year old fuckwits and adapt to the new marketplace in the same way that the British coal miners had to adapt to changes in the coal industry when Maggie "the mad phsyco bitch queen from hell" Thatcher killed it off in the 80's.
C'mon you lot over the pond, you keep going on about democracy, give a demonstration 'cos we've forgotten what it is in the UK!
Sadly, the coalition vehicles already carry flags on the top (orange triangles or squares, can't remember which) and have fluorescant tape attached for ID purposes.
Friendly fire is more accurately described as trigger happy behaviour
For the first time in many years, Microsoft is cutting prices to bid for contracts and the one reason for this is Linux.
If all MS customers were stupid enough to fall for MS bribery and Linux was to go down Microsoft prices would rocket with avengance and there would be no option.
Thank god there are places like Munich that are clued up enough to see further than 6 months down the road.
Bob Pryor, who heads the outsourcing practice of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, said it's "naive" to think outsourcing software jobs could ruin America's tech dominance.
Indeed, regardless of how many American programmers end up in welfare queues you can be sure that the CEOs and directors of US software comapanies will continue to fill their bank accounts regardless of where the programming is being done.
Retraining? How about stand in front of mirror, smile and repeat "D'ya want fries with that"
There was much worse violence in the years before TV and Video where invented (crusades, both world wars, the entire middle ages, the American West, Etc) if anything they provide a release valve for people to blow of steam rather than blowing each other away.
Man, I couldn't have put it better myself:)
I was so glad when Ambulance Chasers Direct down the pan here in the UK particularly when you get all these arseholes suing the NHS for whatever reason.
I have two friends who worked in NHS hospitals, one of them had a lad come in suffering from some kind of internal bleeding and they had to take radical action to prevent the blood from filling his lungs. In the extremely chaotic fray that took place in the caualty room the guy died after absorbant material made it to a lung.
Everyone was shitting themselves in case they got sued despite the fact that he was lucky to have made it to the hospital in the first place. Lawyers who do exploit other peoples misery with ridicicilous claims should be taken out and shot.
Well yeah, I'd go along with that actually. In fact, if MS could let go of the power crazed desire to dominate and control everything they'd probably sell more dual boot X-Box console / Linux machines than they are X-Boxes now.
In the UK there are businesses, police forces and all sorts running Linux yet the schools are almost exclusively running Windows.
The only exception is Powys in Wales where they run Linux and saved £15,000,000 in the process. I think half the problem is the Dept. of Education that screws around with education policy so often that teachers have neither the time nor the inclination to learn anything new because they're so tangled up in Red Tape.
Plus having a Prime Minister who's infatuated with big business doesn't help
While I'm on the subject am I mistaken in remebering that a patch for the hole that Slammer used was available months before Slammer was released? I seem to remeber that even MS hadn't patched their servers and got clobbered. Easy to react immeadiatley when the patch is already available innit
From the article at e-week - putting pressure on Microsoft Corp Is this guy nuts or what?
Nathan Hanks, managing director of technology for Continental Airlines Inc., said his concern is making sure that he can turn the Houston company's airplanes around as quickly as possible. As such, the open-source-community concept is not as appealing to him. When the SQL Slammer worm hit earlier this year, Microsoft responded immediately and addressed the issue. Its executives also visited him to discuss the matter. This would not be possible in the open-source world, Hanks said.
Open Source allows you direct access to the developers not some suit in an anonymous department in Redmond.
Remember the SSL bug in IE5 and Konqueror? MS were still denying it was a problem weeks after the KDE team had patched the bug out. The slammer worm was also the result of another bit of crap coding.
For christ sake remind me not to fly Continental if I visit the states. If all their staff had their heads that far up their arses their pilots wouldn't be able to see where they're going and remember that 2k was built on NT and XP is built on 2k and Server 2003 probably has been in development since long before Microsoft's "Born again" security review. The software you are using is based on a 20 year legacy of piss-poor programming that will take a damn site more than a 3 month security training course to cure.
"Microsoft is a company passionate about innovation and creativity. We are also very committed to respect for others' intellectual property and we request the same respect applied to our innovations........... Sorry, I'm so busy pissing myself laughing........
Anyway, If they are selling at a loss because they can't shift enough of them that's their problem not their customers.
If you tune your car or motorbike and use it to it's full potential does the manufacturer turn up on your doorstep with a hoarde of lawyers and take your car back....no. And why not? Simple, it's none of their bloody business what YOU do with YOUR car once you've paid. OK, so the police may take an interest but that's pretty reasonable given that doing 170MPH on public roads qualifies you for the "shit for brains trophy for total stupidity".
Hacking AN X-Box hurts no-one other than a convicted monopoly company that's using it's extreme wealth to prop up a product that would have gone down the drain by now if it had come from anyone else a 'la dreamcast.
Can someone now do something about this "you don't own it, just licence it" crap now please.
Does this lawyer think that video games make people go out and kill people?
I'd hazard a guess that violent video games will only inspire people to kill for real if those people are already pretty fucked up in the head. Like Cannabis, they act only to multiply what's already going on in there, good or bad. If he wants to make a real difference I recommend moving from law to head shrinking.
If the SCO case is thrown out at the end of the day what does American law allow for in the way of retribution should your Linux development projects have fallen behind or been damaged because of the FUD?
Can businesses using Linux sue for damages due to losses caused by malicious and unfounded prosecution? Could McBride be personally sued for being an arrogant, overly litigous arsehole who used the legal system as a weapon of offence rather than justice?
What would the odds be of arranging a personal lawsuit against mcbride on behalf of all companies that were affected by SCO's case. The possibility of personal bankruptcy may have an effect that is normally hidden by the cosy corporate liability thing. if this happened and SCO went down the pan followed by the contents of his own bank account would future employers be at all well disposed to taking on someone who behaves like a spoilt 5 year old with company funds?
I don't think Linux users can deny that the most popular window managers out there aim to imitate Windows' look-and-feel so as to be familiar with those users.
mainly because Linux is currently trying to pull users away from a 95% desktop share and this'll only happen if the trauma isn't too great. When Windows starts morphing into a KDE/Gnome or whatever clone you'll know Linux is winning
We're back to the Iraqi information Minister then....
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He's more of an arsehole than most give him credit for.
Look back through history and it's littered with good ideas put to nefarious uses. The problem is that no matter how well meaning technolgists are you are still left with the problem that cabinet level politicians are, generally speaking, not the most trustworthy and ethical persons on the planet.
For example, nuclear power. Possible clean and long lasting fuel source (if it was done properly), could improve everone's lot. First practical use - frying people and destroying whole cities and then threatening to destroy the planet from then on. Luckily the balance in power during the cold war means we are still here.
Example 2 - Gunpowder. use it to make pretty patterns in the sky, then adapt it to shoot lead balls through people and blow things up.
Give politicians the tools and they will always pour money into discovering the best way to use it to their own advantage whether it's for kicking the shit out of foreigners or keeping the populace in check at home.
The only trouble is that with computers and IT in general there's no mushroom cloud to let you know it's going on if they do it in secret Remember how long the governments involved denied Echelon's existence before finally owing up.
Interestingly enough, Microsoft's use of the same old tactics e.g. FUD could be seen as a kind of modern day Maginot Line. As good as it would have been in WW1, it failed dismally against the new type of attack.
The flailing scattergun defence of MS over the last few years suggests they have as much understanding of the economics of Open Source in business as the French had of BlitzKrieg
SCO alleges that "as long as the Linux development process remained uncoordinated and random, it posed little or no threat to SCO...." But in truth, Linux was always coordinated - just by many different hands.
In the final years of the 1930s the german army raced across Europe trashing all opposition in their path. At the time of their greatest military successes the German army was running a field command structure called "mission based" command.
Mission based command placed the authority to act in the hands of the soldiers on front line, the idea being that those closest to the front would undoubtably be best positioned to make fast assessments of a situation. Should an opportunity present itself they were free to exploit it to their advantage without having to check with the beaurocracy above. The overall target was known - to win, and as long as your actions fitted the target it was up to you.
This system worked so well that all fell in their path 'til they hit the English channel and turned on Russia (at the instruction of their one leader).
Contrast this to the latter half of the war. The more centralised command became around the leader and his sycophantic entourage, the worse things got until eventually the leaders own incapability to understand the demands of those at the front line led to the collapse of the whole system. The first example was Hitlers order to Rommel to stand fast to the last man at El-Almain. The same mistake was made again at Stalingrad and in several other situations.
The distributed, "module based" development of Linux allows developers to react in the same way as the soldiers on the front line, patching and adding features on the fly without having to discuss it with their manager, product manager, product devlopment manager, product development management manager etc. leading to events like the KDE team patching the SSL flaw in konqueror while the MS FUD machine was still denying it was a problem.
NO! before you start saying it their are no insinuated similaraties between OSS community developers and certain historical characters of an evil nature it's the model that's similar. Ironically the intent in the case of Linux is freedom not enslavement.
Current estimates put Iraq's reserves of Oil as sufficient to cover the western market's demand for 4 years. With most major oil producing countries reserves entering or in terminal decline you may find the bill ain't gonna be paid off anyway.
Maybe GWB is counting on a democrat being in office to take the rap when it all runs dry.
* I love software piracy * I don't pay for my music, I'm not paying for my os, so sue me * My son stole code & published it! And all I got was this lousy t-shirt * Try communism - use Linux
Are these premium grade idiots trying to get sued or what?
1) I am not a software Pirate and have not knowingly used ripped of software. Until the point SCO made their claims over Linux it was under no suspicion of being hooky and until the case and or an injunction it remains that way.
2) I do not download music, I spend most of my time listening to the radio and have more important things to do than rip music off.
3) I am not a communist, although if you litigation monkeys are a sign of capitalism to come I'm thinking there must be a better alternative.
Thanks to those who took the photos, they may come in handy if I ever decide to sue SCO for Libel. Given that these comments are apparently aimed at the entire Linux community how many people are up for a class action suit.
Up yours SCO, you really are a bunch of sad tossers.
the requirement of open-source licences for software funded by the government could have a negative impact on competition for contracts, the quality of the resulting software and even the confidentiality of government departments.
Microsoft (a convicted monopoly) are discounting heavily and even offering 0 cost software to tempt people away from Linux. Is this bad for competition? If MS and the like have actually have to make an effort at getting contracts is that bad? If they have to improve their software to compete with in house GPL development is that bad? The US dept. of defence uses Linux but they aren't spilling information out to all and sundry because of the GPL.
Of course software quality obiously suffers from being GPL'd. It's common knowledge among those who don't understand the difference between their arse and their elbow that IIS is the most secure web server software in the world when compared to the obviously inferior Apache.
The reason I came to Linux in the first place is that I got sick of paying top money for what regularly turned out to be buggy, crash prone, second rate software and the more people that switch to the GPL/LGPL the harder proprietry companies will have to try and the better their end products will be. Evolution by competition - simple as that. Of course eveolution by competition requires a level playing field and I'm sorry CKK but your judgement was feeble at best. If Europe lets MS off the same way then Linux/GPL will be the only hope of keeping MS on the "making an effort path" and crap like this report can only set us back to the days when rushing out a half finished product to get the next hit of money was the accepted method of OS development.
Meanwhile I'm going to start looking around the immigration pages of several foreign countries that still seem to think for themselves 'cos if the UK gov fall for this one I'm getting outa here.
One last thing by the way, whoever came up with the name "intellect" should have considered the fact that it sounds arrogant and overbearing as if you are talking down to people, which funnily enough your report suggests that's exactly what you are doing.
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There are now more file swappers than people who voted in the last presidential election so use p2p to construct a campaign advertising that any presidential candidate who will give a publicly sworn or even better, written guarantee to tame the RIAA will get the entire vote of the file swapping community thus guaranteeing them a win in return.
OK so copying music is illegal but the RIAA should stop behaving like a bunch of spoilt 4 year old fuckwits and adapt to the new marketplace in the same way that the British coal miners had to adapt to changes in the coal industry when Maggie "the mad phsyco bitch queen from hell" Thatcher killed it off in the 80's.
C'mon you lot over the pond, you keep going on about democracy, give a demonstration 'cos we've forgotten what it is in the UK!
Sadly, the coalition vehicles already carry flags on the top (orange triangles or squares, can't remember which) and have fluorescant tape attached for ID purposes.
Friendly fire is more accurately described as trigger happy behaviour
For the first time in many years, Microsoft is cutting prices to bid for contracts and the one reason for this is Linux.
If all MS customers were stupid enough to fall for MS bribery and Linux was to go down Microsoft prices would rocket with avengance and there would be no option.
Thank god there are places like Munich that are clued up enough to see further than 6 months down the road.
Bob Pryor, who heads the outsourcing practice of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, said it's "naive" to think outsourcing software jobs could ruin America's tech dominance.
Indeed, regardless of how many American programmers end up in welfare queues you can be sure that the CEOs and directors of US software comapanies will continue to fill their bank accounts regardless of where the programming is being done.
Retraining? How about stand in front of mirror, smile and repeat "D'ya want fries with that"
There was much worse violence in the years before TV and Video where invented (crusades, both world wars, the entire middle ages, the American West, Etc) if anything they provide a release valve for people to blow of steam rather than blowing each other away.
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Man, I couldn't have put it better myself
I was so glad when Ambulance Chasers Direct down the pan here in the UK particularly when you get all these arseholes suing the NHS for whatever reason.
I have two friends who worked in NHS hospitals, one of them had a lad come in suffering from some kind of internal bleeding and they had to take radical action to prevent the blood from filling his lungs. In the extremely chaotic fray that took place in the caualty room the guy died after absorbant material made it to a lung.
Everyone was shitting themselves in case they got sued despite the fact that he was lucky to have made it to the hospital in the first place.
Lawyers who do exploit other peoples misery with ridicicilous claims should be taken out and shot.
Any spare cages at Guantanamo Bay?
Well yeah, I'd go along with that actually. In fact, if MS could let go of the power crazed desire to dominate and control everything they'd probably sell more dual boot X-Box console / Linux machines than they are X-Boxes now.
In the UK there are businesses, police forces and all sorts running Linux yet the schools are almost exclusively running Windows.
The only exception is Powys in Wales where they run Linux and saved £15,000,000 in the process. I think half the problem is the Dept. of Education that screws around with education policy so often that teachers have neither the time nor the inclination to learn anything new because they're so tangled up in Red Tape.
Plus having a Prime Minister who's infatuated with big business doesn't help
While I'm on the subject am I mistaken in remebering that a patch for the hole that Slammer used was available months before Slammer was released? I seem to remeber that even MS hadn't patched their servers and got clobbered. Easy to react immeadiatley when the patch is already available innit
From the article at e-week -
putting pressure on Microsoft Corp Is this guy nuts or what?
Nathan Hanks, managing director of technology for Continental Airlines Inc., said his concern is making sure that he can turn the Houston company's airplanes around as quickly as possible. As such, the open-source-community concept is not as appealing to him. When the SQL Slammer worm hit earlier this year, Microsoft responded immediately and addressed the issue. Its executives also visited him to discuss the matter. This would not be possible in the open-source world, Hanks said.
Open Source allows you direct access to the developers not some suit in an anonymous department in Redmond.
Remember the SSL bug in IE5 and Konqueror? MS were still denying it was a problem weeks after the KDE team had patched the bug out. The slammer worm was also the result of another bit of crap coding.
For christ sake remind me not to fly Continental if I visit the states. If all their staff had their heads that far up their arses their pilots wouldn't be able to see where they're going and remember that 2k was built on NT and XP is built on 2k and Server 2003 probably has been in development since long before Microsoft's "Born again" security review. The software you are using is based on a 20 year legacy of piss-poor programming that will take a damn site more than a 3 month security training course to cure.
"Microsoft is a company passionate about innovation and creativity. We are also very committed to respect for others' intellectual property and we request the same respect applied to our innovations. .......... Sorry, I'm so busy pissing myself laughing........
Anyway, If they are selling at a loss because they can't shift enough of them that's their problem not their customers.
If you tune your car or motorbike and use it to it's full potential does the manufacturer turn up on your doorstep with a hoarde of lawyers and take your car back....no. And why not? Simple, it's none of their bloody business what YOU do with YOUR car once you've paid. OK, so the police may take an interest but that's pretty reasonable given that doing 170MPH on public roads qualifies you for the "shit for brains trophy for total stupidity".
Hacking AN X-Box hurts no-one other than a convicted monopoly company that's using it's extreme wealth to prop up a product that would have gone down the drain by now if it had come from anyone else a 'la dreamcast.
Can someone now do something about this "you don't own it, just licence it" crap now please.
Does this lawyer think that video games make people go out and kill people?
I'd hazard a guess that violent video games will only inspire people to kill for real if those people are already pretty fucked up in the head. Like Cannabis, they act only to multiply what's already going on in there, good or bad. If he wants to make a real difference I recommend moving from law to head shrinking.
If the SCO case is thrown out at the end of the day what does American law allow for in the way of retribution should your Linux development projects have fallen behind or been damaged because of the FUD?
Can businesses using Linux sue for damages due to losses caused by malicious and unfounded prosecution? Could McBride be personally sued for being an arrogant, overly litigous arsehole who used the legal system as a weapon of offence rather than justice?
What would the odds be of arranging a personal lawsuit against mcbride on behalf of all companies that were affected by SCO's case. The possibility of personal bankruptcy may have an effect that is normally hidden by the cosy corporate liability thing. if this happened and SCO went down the pan followed by the contents of his own bank account would future employers be at all well disposed to taking on someone who behaves like a spoilt 5 year old with company funds?
Just wondering?
Was a bit uncalled for really, mod me down someone I have the guilt of collateral damage ...
I don't think Linux users can deny that the most popular window managers out there aim to imitate Windows' look-and-feel so as to be familiar with those users.
mainly because Linux is currently trying to pull users away from a 95% desktop share and this'll only happen if the trauma isn't too great. When Windows starts morphing into a KDE/Gnome or whatever clone you'll know Linux is winning
Well, getting someone to stay at home with the kids is a sure way to keep them out of the office where they can do any more damage
Course people use visual basic. There's tens of thousands of VB scripts spreading from Outlook to Outlook screwing peoples PCs up every day
We're back to the Iraqi information Minister then....
He's more of an arsehole than most give him credit for.
Look back through history and it's littered with good ideas put to nefarious uses. The problem is that no matter how well meaning technolgists are you are still left with the problem that cabinet level politicians are, generally speaking, not the most trustworthy and ethical persons on the planet.
For example, nuclear power. Possible clean and long lasting fuel source (if it was done properly), could improve everone's lot. First practical use - frying people and destroying whole cities and then threatening to destroy the planet from then on. Luckily the balance in power during the cold war means we are still here.
Example 2 - Gunpowder. use it to make pretty patterns in the sky, then adapt it to shoot lead balls through people and blow things up.
Give politicians the tools and they will always pour money into discovering the best way to use it to their own advantage whether it's for kicking the shit out of foreigners or keeping the populace in check at home.
The only trouble is that with computers and IT in general there's no mushroom cloud to let you know it's going on if they do it in secret Remember how long the governments involved denied Echelon's existence before finally owing up.
Interestingly enough, Microsoft's use of the same old tactics e.g. FUD could be seen as a kind of modern day Maginot Line. As good as it would have been in WW1, it failed dismally against the new type of attack.
The flailing scattergun defence of MS over the last few years suggests they have as much understanding of the economics of Open Source in business as the French had of BlitzKrieg
Shooting fish or dropping a hand grenade in? ;)
SCO alleges that "as long as the Linux development process remained uncoordinated and random, it posed little or no threat to SCO...." But in truth, Linux was always coordinated - just by many different hands.
In the final years of the 1930s the german army raced across Europe trashing all opposition in their path. At the time of their greatest military successes the German army was running a field command structure called "mission based" command.
Mission based command placed the authority to act in the hands of the soldiers on front line, the idea being that those closest to the front would undoubtably be best positioned to make fast assessments of a situation. Should an opportunity present itself they were free to exploit it to their advantage without having to check with the beaurocracy above. The overall target was known - to win, and as long as your actions fitted the target it was up to you.
This system worked so well that all fell in their path 'til they hit the English channel and turned on Russia (at the instruction of their one leader).
Contrast this to the latter half of the war. The more centralised command became around the leader and his sycophantic entourage, the worse things got until eventually the leaders own incapability to understand the demands of those at the front line led to the collapse of the whole system.
The first example was Hitlers order to Rommel to stand fast to the last man at El-Almain. The same mistake was made again at Stalingrad and in several other situations.
The distributed, "module based" development of Linux allows developers to react in the same way as the soldiers on the front line, patching and adding features on the fly without having to discuss it with their manager, product manager, product devlopment manager, product development management manager etc. leading to events like the KDE team patching the SSL flaw in konqueror while the MS FUD machine was still denying it was a problem.
NO! before you start saying it their are no insinuated similaraties between OSS community developers and certain historical characters of an evil nature it's the model that's similar. Ironically the intent in the case of Linux is freedom not enslavement.
Current estimates put Iraq's reserves of Oil as sufficient to cover the western market's demand for 4 years. With most major oil producing countries reserves entering or in terminal decline you may find the bill ain't gonna be paid off anyway.
Maybe GWB is counting on a democrat being in office to take the rap when it all runs dry.
* I love software piracy
* I don't pay for my music, I'm not paying for my os, so sue me
* My son stole code & published it! And all I got was this lousy t-shirt
* Try communism - use Linux
Are these premium grade idiots trying to get sued or what?
1) I am not a software Pirate and have not knowingly used ripped of software. Until the point SCO made their claims over Linux it was under no suspicion of being hooky and until the case and or an injunction it remains that way.
2) I do not download music, I spend most of my time listening to the radio and have more important things to do than rip music off.
3) I am not a communist, although if you litigation monkeys are a sign of capitalism to come I'm thinking there must be a better alternative.
Thanks to those who took the photos, they may come in handy if I ever decide to sue SCO for Libel. Given that these comments are apparently aimed at the entire Linux community how many people are up for a class action suit.
Up yours SCO, you really are a bunch of sad tossers.
the requirement of open-source licences for software funded by the government could have a negative impact on competition for contracts, the quality of the resulting software and even the confidentiality of government departments.
Microsoft (a convicted monopoly) are discounting heavily and even offering 0 cost software to tempt people away from Linux. Is this bad for competition?
If MS and the like have actually have to make an effort at getting contracts is that bad? If they have to improve their software to compete with in house GPL development is that bad?
The US dept. of defence uses Linux but they aren't spilling information out to all and sundry because of the GPL.
Of course software quality obiously suffers from being GPL'd. It's common knowledge among those who don't understand the difference between their arse and their elbow that IIS is the most secure web server software in the world when compared to the obviously inferior Apache.
The reason I came to Linux in the first place is that I got sick of paying top money for what regularly turned out to be buggy, crash prone, second rate software and the more people that switch to the GPL/LGPL the harder proprietry companies will have to try and the better their end products will be. Evolution by competition - simple as that.
Of course eveolution by competition requires a level playing field and I'm sorry CKK but your judgement was feeble at best.
If Europe lets MS off the same way then Linux/GPL will be the only hope of keeping MS on the "making an effort path" and crap like this report can only set us back to the days when rushing out a half finished product to get the next hit of money was the accepted method of OS development.
Meanwhile I'm going to start looking around the immigration pages of several foreign countries that still seem to think for themselves 'cos if the UK gov fall for this one I'm getting outa here.
One last thing by the way, whoever came up with the name "intellect" should have considered the fact that it sounds arrogant and overbearing as if you are talking down to people, which funnily enough your report suggests that's exactly what you are doing.
I wouldn't worry, there's a special layer of hell for lawyers, sandwiched in between estate agents and politicians